Time for the MSP Fiction Workshop’s second 50-Word Challenge!
For this contest, we’re looking for story starters--those hot-as-habanero first few lines that make a book impossible not to finish, that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck and your curiosity boil over like a pot full of spaghetti noodles. The winner will be awarded $5 SBD, and the winning entry will become part of a Fiction Workshop collaboration. As a group, we’re going to take those beginning threads and weave a story that will leave readers breathless.
During our last contest, we had a bit of a glitch. One entry got lost in the shuffle. So for this challenge, please just paste your 50 words in the comments of this post, prefaced by ENTRY, in all caps. That way it will be a little easier for contest moderators with tired eyes to find them in the shuffle. Also, make sure each ENTRY is the leading comment, not buried down in the stack or it could easily be overlooked.
TIPS FOR WRITING A WINNING ENTRY
Show! Don’t tell. Put us directly in the action. EDIT THOROUGHLY. Grammar, syntax, and spelling issues could easily disqualify you. All genres are accepted except erotica and anything that would need to be rated NSFW. Entries will be judged over the weekend of 7/15 and 7/16 and announced in the Fiction Workshop the following week. Deadline is FRIDAY, 7/14 at midnight EST. Allowances are made for time zone issues. Judges will be 
So ready. . .set. . .WRITE!
