October Picture Prompt from Raconteur Press – https://raconteurpress.substack.com/p/50-words-of-horror
To celebrate publication of the Glitched Grimms Anthology: Twisted Fairy Tales with Terror ( https://www.amazon.com/Glitched-Grimm-Twisted-Raconteur-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B0FTGQS42Q ), Raconteur Press issued the following visual prompt challenge on their website: (u)sing the picture prompt …, write a story in fifty words, no more, no less. Crafting 50-word fiction helps develop concise storytelling, and focuses on essential elements of story like plot, character, and setting. Exercise your skills in succinctness, clarity, and creativity!
Here is my attempt. You can play along at the original substack post, or in the comment section below. https://raconteurpress.substack.com/p/50-words-of-horror
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With an extinction-level asteroid discovered only thirteen-hours out, choosing how to spend our last night alive on Earth was a no-brainer: cars, popcorn, besties, my second-base girlfriend, and Megasaurous at the drive-in. Only problem, it wasn’t our night alive, although it was the last one on Earth. The asteroid lied.
(50 words; first published 10/10/2025)