Challenge
Twist Ending in 50 words or less.
In such a short amount of words it is hard to tell any story. See if you can write a story that sets expectations and subverts them in the word limit. Change the genre from horror to funny or the opposite. Or trick the reader into believing there is something there is not and reveal it in the last line. Surprise us.
Here is an example of a short story by Hemingway: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Whisper
Her silence, deafening,
His words mute.
Beating at her mind's space.
Too tired to give satisfaction,
Too oblivious to care.
Alcestis remains stoic.
"Why'd you kill your husband?"
"What made you do it?"
Suddenly she leans closer,
He is pulled into her.
In the minutest of whispers, "because of you."
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