50 Word Story Challenge

Stuck in a rut and need help delving deep into your brain for adjectives, plots, or general character ideas? Looking for a way to get your creative gears turning? Join one of the many games here in the Challenges section for writing exercises that will be sure to turn your creativity on.
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Seppuku
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Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:45 am

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Click here for a list of one word prompts.

I just used Google's number generator to pick. Instructions are simple: Write a story based on the word and keep it under 50 words. You can do more than one.

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69. Graveyard Shift
It’s mid-July. 3:00AM

The air is dark and damp and pregnant with the stench of decay. It’s enough to disturb ordinary folk – makes them sick. It takes a special type of person to bury the dead, to initiate their journey into the afterlife – and I’m not talking about the undertaker.
in the company of birds
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O R N I T H O L O G Y
Lucky me, I see ghosts.
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Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:08 am

16. Wednesday.
"Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe..."

No one ever told you that nursery rhymes, like all fairy-tales, had a seed of truth. Yesterday, you decided to teach the world what it meant to be full of woe.
laeti vescimur nos subacturis
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A N D E R S — f a m i l i a . s u p r a . o m n i a — V E X I A N
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