Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 439: Claw at the Sky

There is a little bit of blue on my shirt and it reaches out to claw at the sky. If we are all clawing at the sky with it, then we have formed a group of people clawing at the … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 438: The Only Way Out is Through

What am I doing here? It’s so hot and the only way out is through. Through to the other side. How did I get myself trapped in a desert of ocean? A hot ocean of sand that stretches beyond the … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 437: A Day of Adventure

That’s it, I’m checking out, or am I? I’ve been awake for far too long at this stage and feel as tough it is slowly doing me in. How long have I been awake for? A little over an hour. … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 436: Air Con Drone Sound at Work

I need to tear my away away from the screen as I’ve been glued to watching numbers cycle. I seem to have slowed in my typing, but only by a smidget. We’ll see how that all pans out over the … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 434: Form Assessment

Sitting down to sort through their papers, the person of this particular story felt some sort of amounting pressure that could not be ignored. The pressure was bubbling up from behind the lid, but this was not a time for … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 432: Cold Mornings

Cold mornings, cold days, cold weather, cold experience, morning walk, warm brick, doing stuff, meeting stuff, needing stuff, stuffing stuff, things and so on and so forth and tearing off at a speed more acceptable than slow. The land stretches … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 426: Action to Take

Well, there are plenty of times in which I could choose to boost my own ego, but then again when there are warming up races there are other things to worry about. Why am I wasting my break on this? … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 424: Float and Act

Pulling the sails tight and drawing them close in order to conceal the evidence of a murdered body floating down the river and by the viewers and the tourists, but that was always the plan. Only due to the fact … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 418: A Fish Leaves a Mountain

There is a feeling in my hands and that feeling is leading the race today. I know that there is a way to get to the end and that is through the rigorous completion of all that will ever be … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 414: Forest of Little Importance

Upon the rolling ocean lies the forest for which we cannot perceive unless it is one that we immerse ourselves first in immersion oil in order to increase our magnification, as that is the only way to see the forest … Continue reading

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