50-Word Stories

[sagitta33]

Happy Wednesday! I'm Sagitta33 (LJ and DW). Today is Mercury Day. Let's tackle the middle of the week with a micro-story.

All stories have a beginning (status quo, in media res), middle (conflict), and resolution (new status quo). Micro-fiction contains word counts of as little as six words to a hundred. For this first week of July, let's write 50-word stories.

The rules are as follows:

• No more than five prompts in a row.
• No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
• Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
• No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
• If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut. Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name] Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Other guidelines:

You may add specifics or guidelines to your prompts. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are welcome.

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here. Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future. If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate. If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! comment_fic

tag= Happy Wednesday! I'm Sagitta33 (LJ and DW). Today is Mercury Day. Let's tackle the middle of the week with a micro-story.

All stories have a beginning (status quo, in media res), middle (conflict), and resolution (new status quo). Micro-fiction contains word counts of as little as six words to a hundred. For this first week of July, let's write 50-word stories.

The rules are as follows:

• No more than five prompts in a row.
• No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
• Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
• No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
• If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name] Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Other guidelines:

You may add specifics or guidelines to your prompts. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are welcome.

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! comment_fic

tag= micro-fiction

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[cozy_coffee]

any, any fandom, Alternate Universe

South Park - Kenny McCormick/Butters Stotch

[lumiosecity]

In another life, the princess—beautiful, deadly, wielding a dagger with just as much poise and grace as she does social mores—is unrepentant as she shoves a blade into her trusted paladin’s back.

In this one, Kenny laughs, low and acrid, equally unrepentant.

“Love? Butters, I don’t even like you.”

Fill: The Iliad, Hector & Cassandra

[drabblewriter]

Hector watches from atop the walls as the pyre of Achilles burns beside the Greek camp. The battle had been fierce, Hector’s killing blow lucky, but he’s proud of the outcome nonetheless. The best of their enemies is dead.

Beside him, eyes dark, Cassandra murmurs, “This will not change anything.”

[cozy_coffee]

any, any/any, soulmate

Fallout: New Vegas - Courier Six/Benny

[lumiosecity]

The red thread of fate must tie them together like a hangman’s noose, Six reckons. There’s no other explanation for how they always reel back into each other’s embrace.

It’s always her and Benny, caught in each other’s crosshairs. Always has been.

Always will be, until the world quits spinning.

Fill: The Iliad, Achilles(/Patroclus), character death

[drabblewriter]

The arrow sinks into his heel, and Achilles gasps in pain even as his mind floods with relief. He's done his part in the war, gained all the glory he was promised, and now he's done. He'll go to the underworld. He'll be with Patroclus again. He'll be whole again.

[cozy_coffee]

any, any group, Let Them Eat Cake

Teen Titans (Animated Series) - Terra & Ensemble

[lumiosecity]

It had devolved into a food fight somewhere in the past two minutes— overturned tables, shouting, swearing, globs of cake flying everywhere as the Titans fall into a mad frenzy of sugar and crumbs.

Terra, laughing, ducks for cover and grabs a fistful of baked goods, eager to join in.

[cozy_coffee]

any, any, Hurt/Comfort

South Park - Stan Marsh/Kenny McCormick

[lumiosecity]

“I’ve got you, okay?” Stan mumbles, lips pressed against Kenny’s hairline. “I’m right here; I’m not going anywhere.”

Kenny sighs, blinking away the last wisps of a nightmare and the shrieking pain of a bullet to the back, and tries his level best to believe what he’s told.

“I’m fine.”

[cozy_coffee]

any, any/any, smut in 50 words

DC Comics - Adeline Kane Wilson/Slade Wilson

[lumiosecity]

Teeth on his neck, a fist tangled in his hair— Slade falls right back into the familiar dance, lets Addie take the lead like she always has.

And the hatred in her eyes while she works him until he’s seeing stars makes that euphoria taste all the more sickeningly sweet.

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any (+/ any), that first bite of [any food]

Fallout 3 - Lone Wanderer

[lumiosecity]

It shouldn’t have been as hard as it was to find clean water to boil the pasta in, and in retrospect, the Lone Wanderer sort of regrets surviving primarily on alcohol, stimpacks, and spite.

It’s just boxed mac and cheese, but that first bite tastes like the vault.

Like home.

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any (+/ any), finding something unexpected (in a good way!) on TV

Arcane: League of Legends - Vi & Jinx

[lumiosecity]

Author’s note: A modern AU of sorts? One with television news, at least.

“Your sister’s on the news again,” Sevika says, and white-hot fear arcs up Vi’s spine.

Paint-splattered, grinning like an imp, accepting an award for contributions to the arts in Zaun— this, Vi will freely admit, is not what she was expecting.

Still, she’s proud of Jinx, if a bit baffled.

[creepy_shetan]

any sci-fi or fantasy fandom, any modern Earth character +/ any who is not, cultural differences

Fallout 4 - Nora & Preston Garvey

[lumiosecity]

What it means to be the sole survivor is finally sinking in after so many distractions wear thin, and Nora can’t think of anything to do about it but talk about every little thing under a sun that hadn’t always been clouded by nuclear smog.

Preston, bless him, always listens.