Fifty Stories, Fifty Words

"All I have is fifty words, fifty words to tell you a story. Will that be enough? Will you understand me? Can I paint the moon and the stars and the sea with my fifty words? Can you see the world, my world, my lifetime, in those fifty little words?" This book, the first by the author, explores the author's lifetime and experiences, limited as they are by her age, in a collection of fifty-word stories. Each word carefully selected and precisely placed, these stories, brief as they are, shed light onto the loves, friendships and losses lived in only twenty-two years.