“The gods sure were nuts when they made you,” Chloe laughs.

“Gods?” Molly raises an eyebrow.

“You don’t get that level of kooky from just one unhinged deity.”

“Is that a no?”

“I’m not crazy! Of course, I’ll marry you! Now take off that ridiculous costume and come kiss me.”

….

This is the eleventh in the series of Humpbuckle Tales. Each story is precisely 50 words long. They are meant to be independent stories, but if you read them all you will find each one adds another piece to the puzzle – there is a bigger story that is being told.

This story was first published on my Hive blog (@felt.buzz) and you can find all the stories on the @humbuckletales Hive account – at the time of posting this I have just published 6 more Humpbuckle Tale there (so we are up to number 22). On Hive I publish 12 stories per week (Monday to Saturday one story per day and then six 50-word stories in one post on a Sunday).

If you prefer the drip drip drip approach keep coming back here for one 50-word tale every day!

Tomorrow, Monday 18th October, in addition to posting Humpbuckle Tales number 12, I will be posting an author reading of the first 10 stories (up to and including this one). It will be available here, on youtube, as a podcast and on Hive. If all goes well I plan to post author readings of 12 episodes at a time every other Monday.

Thanks for reading!