Vitruvian Light Show
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: Use the above photo as inspiration to write a fifty-word story (fiction, CNF, or poetry).
Here are the other guidelines:
Make sure your piece is exactly fifty words. Feel free to use Word Counter or your preferred word processor.
Write a title with the genre in the first line.
The title does not factor into the word count.
Good luck and have fun. Happy writing!
Special thanks to
for providing “Vitruvian Light Show” for our writing prompt.Below is my contribution.
Palm Reader, fiction
When the boy enters Talia’s tent, the scent of carnival food wafts inside.
She takes his palm—studies it. Her eyes widen.
“You’ll live a blessed life, boy, a long one. Prosperous.”
He leaves, elated. She exhales the lies and tries to erase the chaos—the evil—from her mind.
Everybody’s a Critic
“‘Vitruvian Light Show’,” sniffed Edgar, reading the placard beneath the colorful gyroscopic work. “Yes, I thought it brought to mind Leonardo.”
Kent tried to join in. Waded into the deep end. “I love Leonardo. I’ll go to my grave insisting there was room for him AND Rose on that door!”
WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN, CANNOT BE UNSEEN, fiction
I entered without knocking and found my mother dancing with Uncle Charles. Multi-colored lights pulsed from a strobe as The Dead were spinning on the turntable. In the air, the scent of patchouli. They were drinking tequila, and wearing nothing but love beads.
Joining them seemed out of the question.