Something She Kept in the Hutch
Fifties by the Fire
Fifties by the Fire — a fifty-word, prompt-based writing exercise. Feel free to share your response below, or read and comment to join the fun.
Prompt: Write a fifty-word story (fiction, CNF, or poetry) that reveals or alludes to what she kept in the hutch. Perhaps your story will be about a hidden remedy, a stored item, or something much more sinister…
Here are the other guidelines:
Make sure your piece is exactly fifty words. Feel free to use Word Counter or the word processor you use.
Write a title with the genre in the first line. (Example: Missed the Boat, Fiction)
The title does not factor into the word count.
Good luck and have fun. Happy writing!
Special thanks to John Lightle for providing “Something She Kept in the Hutch” and the fun prompt ideas.
Landlocked, fiction
Some mornings, Stella longs for the sea. After she feels her way to the kitchen, she locates the hutch and takes out the small leather pouch of Doubloons. The conch shell.
Stella rolls the coins between her fingertips and holds the shell to her ear. The waves call her home.
The Importance of Grammar/Fiction
What was the something she kept in the hutch was a question we asked obsessively throughout our youth. Turned out after she passed, we learned we had been asking the wrong question. With the wrong pronoun. It wasn’t a what but a who. At least what was left of him.