A 55-word Gothic Story

Hello !
Today, I will talk about an activity in English literature.

In a first time, I will explain the Gothic movement :
The Gothic movement is a genre of literature, of XVIII century, which mixes horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to the novel The Castle of Otranto, written in 1764 by the English author Horace Walpole.

The 55-word  activity is inspired by an American literary competition in which the participants have to write very short story (55 words). The best of them are then published. It is an "exercise in literary minimalism", which requires imagination and concision, but can be quite amusing.

With my friend Andréa (her blog : http://andreeasrl.blogspot.fr/ ) we wrote it :

" A summer night, in a deserted park, Elizabeth was reading and Jenny, her daughter, was on the swing. Suddenly, the creaking sound of the swing stopped. Disturbing silence. Jenny had disappeared ! She began to look for the little girl when she saw Jenny's ball roll to her feet.

It was Jenny's head, cut. "

  Our story is very horrible is true, but we taken some pleasure to realised this 55-word during this activity !

xoxo.