“Oh. You’re really going somewhere with this.” She looked from the map to the highway stretching endlessly before them.
“Of course I am. I may take a few detours, but I’ve always had a place in mind. Only, it’s very far away.”
“How far?”
“The other side of the Grand Canyon. Speaking of which…”
The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words.
This is actually an allegory for the way I write Suzie’s House. I often have no idea what scene I’m going to write when I sit down, but have a very good idea where I want the characters to end up.
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