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.