Classified // Let's bid on words.

For sale

برائے فروخت:اک طوطا ، جو اپنے پنجرہ کا ویس عاشق ہے جیسے کہ آپ اپنے فون کے۔ گزرے پانچ سالوں میں اس نے اڑنے کی اک بھی کوشش نہیں کی
وہ بےمثل غلامی کا زندہ ریکارڈ ہے
قیمت : آزادی ،اگر آپ اسے راضی کر لیں
رابطہ: میں ہوں نا

For Sale: A parrot, as obsessed with its cage as you are with your phone.
Hasn’t attempted to fly even once in the past five years.
Holds the undefeated record in devoted slavery.
Price: Freedom — if you can talk him into it.
Contact: Me — his only well-wisher

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Required

ضرورت ہے: اک عدد پتھر کےپالش شدہ ٹکڑے کی جس پہ برفیلا طوفان کندہ ہو۔
ایسا ضرورت پڑنے پہ میں اپنے دل کی جگہ رکھ سکو
قیمت: بہترین قیمت معیار کے مطابق
رابطہ : اک بلا ضرورت حساس دل
Required: A polished stone with a snowstorm carved on it.
Something I could place where my heart used to be.
Price: Best offer, depending on quality.
Contact: An emotional overeater

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For exchange

تبادلے کیلئے: بھورے رنگ کے دس فوٹو فریم تصویروں سمیت کسی کم نقلی چیز کے عوض دستیاب ہیں
کہ اک ہی انسان کے دو چہرے برداشت کرنا مشکل ہوتا ہے۔
رابطہ: اک پاگل انسان ،جس کیلئے اعتبار اک شجر ممنوع ہو چکا ہے

For Exchange: Ten brown photo frames, pictures included.
Preferably for something less fake.
I can’t bear the two-facedness of a single human hanging on my wall.
Contact: A psycho with certified trust issues.

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To be precise and use fewer words is always a difficult task for me, because I’m used to adding tiny details in every sentence I speak. But when it comes to reading, nothing inspires me more than a micro writer. The most powerful text I ever read was from Nahj al-Balagha(arabic version) , it literally blew my mind, and I’d love to quote a tiny piece here.

"The one held back by what he’s done,
No lineage bright can make him run."

Then obviously, there's Ernest Hemingway. But a Pakistani writer like Manto, with his sharp, critical stance that makes society uncomfortable with its own centuries-old preachings and taboos, is always worth reading. Mubashir Zaidi also wrote a series of 100-word stories in one of Pakistan’s major newspapers.

But I think, @joslud, your challenge is a bit more challenging—because the word count is just 50!
I tried it... but it didn’t feel perfect.
Still, it was fun to create something within that limit, like counting life lines.

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@yousafharoonkhan , @iqrabatool34 , @sojib1996 you guys are invited .