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

Comments

[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.

Re: Fallout 4 - Nora & Preston Garvey

[creepy_shetan]

Oh, keeping busy to keep your mind off of, well, everything... I get it, Nora.
Thanks for the fill!

Re: Fallout 4 - Nora & Preston Garvey

[lumiosecity]

Thank you for such a good prompt!

I’ve got a real soft spot for Nora (and Nate, but I prefer playing as female characters, so I default to Nora when writing); the horror of what she’s going through is super distressing to think about and I personally don’t think canon did enough with it. I really appreciated the opportunity to write something about it.