20-Word "Cooling Off" Hint Fiction Contest (free)
Write an intimate-feeling 20-word story involving the emotional effect of weather changing, as in the season moving from summer to Fall.
See if you can include the word “leaf”. Give your 20 word stories memorable titles.
The Sky Is Falling The Sky Is Falling
Everything hit him at once; mortgage due, wife gone, his employer downsizing, and then the first damn falling autumn leaf.
The Yellow Leaf Flutters to Earth
Slowly, as if convinced it was leaving something precious behind, something it would recognize if it ever saw it again.