A young question mark stretches, re-curls his crook and sets off to find The Answer.
Rushing past commas, (swerving around parentheticals) – dashing past hyphens – he skids at last to a full stop.
“I’ve finally reached the point!” he exults.
But then, he spots another. And a third… leading… elliptically… onwards…
Joanna Norland is a playwright and writing coach who loves the fifty word format as a testing ground for new ideas. The creativity and craft of her fellow contributors are a perennial inspiration and spur.
