I tried my hand at a 50-word story and soon learned that it isn’t easy to write a full story in exactly 50 words.
The original attempt was 140 words. I sliced it down to 100, which wasn’t that difficult. Cutting it to 50, however, was where I really struggled.
My aim was to capture a mood, a small moment in time, much like browsing through photographs.
Here’s the beginning of For Karen, from Seward, Alaska.
I kissed you on the mouth, lips desperate and soft.
Head over to 50-Word Stories and check out the rest.
Cinthia Ritchie 
Good for you, getting published again! And getting published for being pithy 😉 I love the idea of a 50-word story … I love it, but not sure I could do it …
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Excellent! It’s like a tight little prose poem.
Ask ’em to spell your name correctly in the title line though! 😜
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Did they misspell my name? Too funny. I remember the first time I had a big front page story in the newspaper (where I had worked for, like, four years at that point) they misspelled both my first and last name in the byline. I still wonder if that was deliberate, lol.
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Love the idea of writing short pieces that are like photographs. Sounds like fun! Nice photos, Cinthia! Hope you had a great time in Arizona.
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