This is another entry in the #fiftywords story challenge by @miniature-tiger. The current theme is "crime". You can read my previous entry for this theme When Rhyme Is A Crime here: @felt.buzz/when-rhyme-is-a-crime-an-original-fictional-story-in-fiftywords

Check out @miniature-tiger's post: @miniature-tiger/fiftywords-stories-round-up-and-genre-for-weekend-3-crime and please check out all the other 50 word stories in #fiftywords

The story is exactly 50 words long.

The Poetry Police were the first on the scene
It wasn't pretty: all bloody and mean

Words lay all over, tattered and torn
Inspector Poem was sad and forlorn

Studying the clues
He began to muse

“@Feltbuzz is guilty of this terrible crime
And the last line doesn't even... work.”

...

Photo is of me wielding a knife in my very own kitchen, taken an hour ago. I promise I'll stop the rhyme now! ;)

More very short stories (stories told in exactly 50 words)

“When Rhyme Is A Crime”
Theft, murder, bad rhymes...
@felt.buzz/when-rhyme-is-a-crime-an-original-fictional-story-in-fiftywords#@snrm/re-feltbuzz-when-rhyme-is-a-crime-an-original-fictional-story-in-fiftywords-20180120t194306704z

“Sick”
An ill man at a dinner party. What could go wrong?
@felt.buzz/sick-an-original-fictional-story-in-fiftywords

“What did they know?”
Just a holiday romance?
@felt.buzz/what-did-they-know-an-original-fictional-story-in-just-fiftywords

Some more of my longer short stories

“Moisturise”
Some people only have their memories for company…
@felt.buzz/moisturise-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge

“Mother Bot”
Don’t read this if you have mother issues.
@felt.buzz/mother-bot-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-weekend-freewrite-challenge

“Home”
A man is on a journey. But why?
@felt.buzz/home-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge

“Power”
Not sure I'd want this power...
@felt.buzz/power-an-original-fictional-story-for-the-5-minute-freewrite-challenge

“Ending”
A relationship ends
@felt.buzz/ending-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-contest#@mydivathings/re-feltbuzz-ending-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-contest-20180120t082238861z

“Impulse buy”
A man shows off his purchase to his less than enthusiastic wife
@felt.buzz/impulse-buy-an-original-fictional-story-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge

“Misunderstood”
A wannabe writer struggles to get the space he needs
@felt.buzz/misunderstood-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-365daysofwriting

“Treasure”
Two people work together to try to get to the “treasure”
@felt.buzz/treasure-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge