The prolific Hemmingway was once challenged to write a story in six words, the heartbreaking result was: For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn.
The fifty word story contest is here to reward those who are able to tell a fascinating story in fifty words, the contest is also a way to encourage new steemians on the platform. The growth of steemit depends on their presence,this is what led to commuinty building projects like 
This contest is open to only Steemians with reputation 55 and lower, those with a higher reputation can participate in the Literature Trail agent contest, which runs concurrently with this contest.
We have a guest judge for this week, someone who is very delibrate in his contribution to the development of Steemit, he is also the brain behind the original tag contest and the 30 day power up challenge. He is no other person than 
RULES OF THE CONTEST
1 Contestants must Upvote and Resteem this post.
2 Write your story using #fiftywords as your primary tag and the word of the week as your secondary tag, you can be creative with the remaining three tags.
3 Only one entry is allowed per contestant.
4 Contestants must state how they learnt about the contest in their story submissions.
All entries must be submitted by 4pm New York Time on Wednesday 5th April
The Word for this week is : CHANNEL
You can write about a place
Or your favourite television station
Prizes as follows
First Place : 350 Trail coins and 20 Steem
Second Place: 200 Trail coins and 12 Steem
Third Place: 150 Trail coins and 8 Steem
The top three entries plus any other entries of particular quality or displaying an originality of thought will be published every Thursday. This will serve as an excellent post to distribute to your friends, family and Social Media contacts.
The organisation of this contest has been given huge support by the guys at SteemTrail
If you have not already done so, head over to the SteemTrail Discord server and check out what they’re up to.
You will need an Open Ledger Account which is free. Simply click HERE and follow the instructions.
For a streemian Account, click HERE
From the fifty word contest organiser 
If you would like to help increase the reward pool for this contest, please let me know