The time to write is now. The time available to write is also now, and that’s a bit limiting if you only think in terms of a novel at a hundred thousand words or more. Because you don’t need that many words, or that much time, to tell a story.

While at Fantasci in North Carolina, The Three Moms of the Apocalypse issued a challenge. Let your imagination soar and tell a story in exactly 50 words.