As the title. 51, 235 words.
The title? Violence by Necessity. It’s the charming story of Conner Sabot, as the boy proceeds to leave his family for a new school, makes new friends, and battle horrible bloodthirsty killer monsters and unravel the msytery of his past between classes.
I like to think of it as the weird hybrid offspring of what you get if you shamelessly rip off Harry Potter, Ender’s Game, Rosario and Vampire, Real Bout High School, The Bully, and half a dozen other things I can’t even recall right now. But as they say: “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.”
It probably would have wound up longer - but I didn’t actually start writing until the 12th, and din’t gbegin in earnest until the 15. So I was hammering out over 300 words a day there for half the month to get it in the can.