Babylon Dribble

Sometimes fifty words is all you need to express a story. When I first listened to Babylon by Taylor Swift (I am obsessed with her Encore), a main character grew as did his whole life. A whole novel panned out in my mind but as I recently discovered "drabbles" and "dribbles" on a creative writing course, I challeged myself to condence the story into a dribble, fifty words.

His want kept the bars in place. Wasted potential ahead, damning nostalgia behind.

He wanted what he'd lost because it was lost, and lost what he wanted chasing what came next.

When his time was up, the twenty wathes remaned in his safe. His precious time carried on, still ticking.