2019 #50PreciousWords

In January I entered a short story contest. Entries could be no longer than 2,500 words. Fast forward to March, and now I’m entering a writing contest where entries can be no longer than 50 words. Extremes? Yes, yes they are.

The #50PreciousWords contest challenges children’s writers to create a story – with a beginning, middle, and end – that uses no more than 50 words. You really have to make each word count.

The contest is hosted by Vivian Kirkfield, children’s book author whose most recent book, Pippa’s Passover Plate, just launched last month.

Vivian encouraged us to post our submissions on our blogs and social media so here’s my entry below – and I encourage you to check out all the submissions, which are posted in the comments of the blog post about the contest.

TREASURE

“What’s in the box, Mom?”

“Broken dinner plates going to the trash.”

But I see potential.

My big sister helps me carefully smash the plates into tiny pieces.

We arrange a mosaic,

glue the pieces together,

add grout,

then frame our creation.

It reminds us:

broken can still be beautiful.

Thanks for reading!

And if you love picture books, check out my Pinterest picture book board or these posts on my blog: