From November 2024 to November 2025, I wrote sixteen short texts in Spanish about a gnome who showed up in my life every now and then: "Prosa del gnomo". After I wrote each text, I went over them with my Spanish teacher Marta, who pointed out moments where the Spanish wasn't right and asked me to correct them. I never sat down to write any of those texts; as I told Marta, the gnome sometimes visited me. — Today, for the first time in almost a year, the gnome visited me again. After we corrected the text, I noticed it was 114 words long, so we edited it to be "111 palabras". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 15 October 2026)

A 111-word visit from "el gnomo"