Category Archives: 52 Words

Brewing Lather

For Sacha’s 52 Word Tale Challenge. This week’s prompt: tell your story using dialogue only.

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“While you’re up, grab me another beer.”

“I’m not up.”

“Well, when you do get up.”

“Not getting up. I’m watching my show. You know I look forwa… Hey stop that! Give me the remote!”

“You’re not watching your show now. So get me that beer.”

“Get it yourself! Ugh! I’m done!”

~kat


To The Grave – In 52 Words…Exactly

i cant believe i missed last week’s prompt “toast”. may have tobrevisit that one. at any rater this week’s 52 Word Story Challenge asks us to tell a tale in 52 words exactly about “A Secret You Just Discovered”.

Before the calendar beats me again, here’s my little yarn.


To the Grave

It was a good death, as deaths go.

I had never seen death so close. It was peaceful; shallow breathing, a gentle shudder, stillness.

She left us letters. Of all us sisters, I was her favorite. Everyone knew it. I found a corner to read mine.

Dear Shana,
When we found you…

~kat


Forever Bound

For Sacha’s “In 52 Words” challenge. This week’s prompt to tell the story of why the room pictured here is empty. But here’s the thing, it is not empty. At least not for Lara…

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Lara was forever bound to this place, condemned, inhabitable, its walls blistering from having witnessed unspeakable atrocities.

The sight of her gray, lifeless eyes, limbs tied with rope to a four-poster, haunted those who found her there.

In life, she had always loved this room. Some souls find heaven in hell’s corridors.

~kat
(52 Words, No More, No Less)


Death Personified

Found a new challenge. 52 Words…no more no less, hosted by Sacha Black at Writespiration based on a prompt theme. This week…Death Personified. Anyhoo…here’s my take…


There, there. Don’t resist.

Reminds me of your entrance some 73 years ago.

You don’t remember?

Of course you don’t. Oh how you howled into mortality!

‘Good strong lungs!’ the midwife declared. Good lungs don’t last long here.

Come along now. On to Everlasting.

Remember. Just like before. Head toward the light.

~kat
(52 Words…no more, no less)