Labels: ACE

• Must be fiction (Self-Explanatory)
• Must be 55 words or less (Again, Self-Explanatory)
• Must have a proper story structure (Story curve and all, typical)
• Hyphenated words don't count as single words
  
• Story title is not included in the word count, but can only be at most 7 words.
  
• Contractions count as single words (e.g. I'm)
• Numbers count as words, whether written in numerals (5, 84, 957, etc. etc.), or as words (six, three hundred and forty-five, etc. etc. )
  Game Over:
  
  
  The odds against me were fifteen to one. I was desperate for survival. Sighing, I rolled the dice, in which my destiny lay. Fat chance. I dumped the cash on the table and walked away. I always lost. “Loser,” said the banker opposite me, a smug grin on his face.
  
  Oh, do I hate Monopoly!

Labels: ACE