My Fifty-Word Story Published Today 🎊

Super excited that my fifty-word story was published today at 50 Give or Take. It will also appear in the yearly 50 Give or Take anthology. Read my story below, subscribe to get a daily delivery of a story to your inbox, and consider submitting your own stories. Learn more at: clickety-click.

β€œStone Fruit”


Fragrant, like edible roses. I wish I’d drawn them first. I wish I’d gotten more than four.

I ate around the stones. I ate them one after another, over the sink, making happy sounds.

Truth be told, I’m standing there still, marked with sticky sweet juice as the world burns.


Melanie Faith loves film cameras and naps. Her latest book of poetry is The Price of Breathing .