Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 766: Paper on Procrastination

I want to write about the joy of cycling, but right now I don’t think I have enough time. Still have a few things left to do before the commencement of my shift. It doesn’t mean that I don’t want … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 64: Tower of Your own Duck

Sometimes you just want to climb and ascend a staircase of the tower of your own duck, and who really can say no to that? Who can stop you from doing so? Certainly not me. So picture this: There is … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 62: An Exercise in Deception

And so once more a day has gone by and we slowly transition into the phase of the day known as the evening, which usually arrives after the phase known as afternoon. It still actually is the afternoon period at … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 760: Horse Hours

It’s all horse hours here. Been trapped for a while. Can’t escape. Can’t get out. Getting comfortable at least. The last time I saw the exit was… far too long ago for me to remember. Perhaps it wasn’t that long … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 755: Eye Messages

There’s a muscle twitch in my eye. Not unusual, though perhaps today it is. You see, right now it is twitching in what appears to be a highly-perceptible pattern and that concerns me. Normally if it is going to twitch … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 752: Breakfast or Waking up

So it all starts with a breakfast. The consumption of the sustenance. Once that is done it is time to descend the location of which is the particular place in space and time that you just so happen to be. … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 751: Just Float Away

I think that today has been a long day and I need to find a way to send my anchor that keeps me grounded to some other place so that I can just float away and get away from everything, … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 746: About a Desert

Crossing expanses upon expanses and following the rolling dunes that change form and reshape themselves in some sort of eternal dance of metamorphosis. Perhaps they are a great amorphous body rather than some giant landscape. Perhaps. Crossing requires time and … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 745: Morning Beckons

The morning beckons the waking of the up as opposed to the falling of the down and soon the ice thaws on the limbs, enabling a full range of movement into another place of time and history. That is the … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 743: And Then Some

Surely when in jest, gesticulating gestures go good, or something to similar effect. I think. Perhaps I don’t think. Perhaps the idea of thinking is something that we trick ourselves into believing when all we’re doing is running on instinct, … Continue reading

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