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dibhya
Someone with a love of reading and just happy to learn to write better
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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.
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The Ringing

I shudder as the vibrations enter my ears and send electrical signals to my brain. I desperately wish what's happening isn't but alas life isn't so kind. So against my free will I blearily open my eyes, switch off my alarm clock and start the new day.