Challenge #744: dead-end

[primsong]

Welcome to dw100. Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge # 744 is dead-end.

The rules:

• All stories must be 100 words long.
• Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season.
• Remember, you don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration.
• Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post.
• Please use the challenge tag 744: dead-end on any story posted to this challenge.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Dead-end itself: does that count as one word or two? I always worry about hyphenated words :/

[primsong]

I count hyphenated words as one, myself, based upon the reasoning that only half of it doesn't make any sense in use because it needs the entire piece to function as a word.

[miss_s_b]

Ok :)