In 1975, when I was broke, foolish, and young, I hitchhiked the US from
Salt Lake City to NYC, and flew back from Chicago.
NEW PROMPT DUE 22 hours 21 minutes 45 seconds
Ernest Hemingway once wrote a complete story in six words - "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Your task today is to write a COMPLETE story using only 24 words. (No poems today.) And you still must include your word count in your post.
Check out "How to Enter the Writer's Cramp" for information about how to enter.
To qualify, make sure you include your word count for stories (1000 words or less) or a line count for poems (40 lines or less) IN your forum post with the b-item link to your entry.
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