Site of the day Fifty word fiction is a wonderful subpage of the excellent Tangents website ("The home of Un-Popular Culture on the World Wide Web.") which centers around indie and other pop music. The idea is simple. Write a story in fifty words. That is enough for a small plot and a surprise ending. Compact prose for short attention span people like me. I'd love to write one myself soon. The last mini story is Loop by Ben White: LOOP "You mean it goes around in a loop?" "Exactly right, a loop, yes." I looked around the room. It was very small and very bare. "There's no way out." "None at all. We're stuck doing the same thing over and over again." "You mean it goes around in a loop?"