I decided to take the next step and have a go at some 50 word shorts and I ended up enjoying it so much I did three. I used this random word generator and I swear I didn’t cheat – I stuck with the first three suggestions (I’d like to think that pudding/lawyer is enough to convince you of that fact!)
pudding/lawyer
I’m the one that should be on trial. But I’m not. I’m sitting here and all I can think about is killing that lawyer, cutting of his fingers, dunking each one into a thick chocolate pudding and licking it off drop by delicious drop.
trousers/perch
Clive fumbles for an insult with sweaty hands.
‘You’re nothing but a trousers perch!’
Something inside him gives a deflated sigh.
Nick just shakes his head and walks away. Words catch in Clive’s mouth but ‘trousers perch’ is all that dribbles out again.
butterfly/cloak
The sunlight is a spear through the canopy. Where it strikes the ground the butterflies bask in its brilliance.
As the detective approaches they rise with a coy flash of their iridescence. What they leave behind cannot follow. He is only small; naked and alone now without his butterfly cloak.
Good work! If you get addicted, it was nothing to do with me.
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Ha, when I’m destitute and alone, scribbling 50 word stories on the pavement in chalk it will be your fault!
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I’ll be sat next to you mate
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