Category Archives: Fiction

One Thousand Word Challenge 85: Work in Heat

Heat spreads outward and inward and compresses itself upon all, making sure that somehow the end seems so far away and causes a sweat to break out and caress the skin in vain attempts to cool down the body, and … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 809: Man and Machine

He was a sharp dressed man, always in the finest of looking suits, always with the right haircut. He oozed the coolness before coolness was even a thing, even though it had been a thing long established before he was … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 83: Path Down

All on a descent down a steep hill, so it needs to be taken slowly, yet surely. There needs to be careful consideration for the next step and all preparation must not go to waste. That is how it goes … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 808: Careful Steps

Careful steps needed to be taken in order to ascertain how certain the ascent was, but of course careful steps can still lead to folly. You trey to account for what you can, but of course you cannot account for … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 81: The Bridge in the Desert

It was a warm day, as was the shift from winter to spring to summer would allow at any rate. Technically it just was spring, but I’m referring to the transition of seasons. Soon it would be summer as that … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 807: Duck’s First Strike

Sometimes when the duck strikes, it strikes thrice. the first time it was in the dark night of the dark night. Some would say the duck of the night, but we need to be clear on this one. It was … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 805: Empty Street

Walking out into the empty street. It is dark, it is night. The rain recently flecked the street with its being. No longer raining, but the lights stretch, somehow become brighter in contrast. The rain helps, reflects the light a … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 804: A Frog

So once upon a time there was a frog. This was an ordinary frog and it did the things that a frog does. It wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. It may have been sitting on a lily pad … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 77: Cosmic Horse and the Eternal Bunt: The Beginnings

Open fields, though not always. Just a lot of the time. There were open fields and there were sometimes thick forests, or woodland areas, or whatever you want to call them. These were things that needed to be contended with … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 76: Caught in a Loop

Flummoxed by nothing at the moment, so I must take a step forward and volunteer myself to do something that I have done before. It is something that I have done many a time but I don’t know if it … Continue reading

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