This my submission for this week's 50 word story contest. I learned about it from literature-trails post. As always I hope you enjoy it. It's called X Marks The Spot.
The old man bent over me with skin that stretched across his bones like a sheet trapped in a tree.
"You have the mark, Jordan." He grabbed my hand. On the back was a scar in the shape of an X. "For you, my son, everything is about to change."