Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 391: Our Protagonist Faced with a Riddle

Feeble flying leads to fickle frays into the foraying of the life that needs to drink the boot on a hemlock of mildew. There was always a way around and there was always an alternative, but our protagonist could not … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 390: Orange Fish

Once upon a time there was an orange fish that was walking around, minding it’s own business, as it would, as there was nothing else to do. It wanted to be left alone for a little while, bot due to … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 386: Bottom of the Well

It’s once more a race to the bottom, but this time the well extends far beyond my reach. Two days of heat and now it’s a little cooler. Supposedly it is going to rain at some point today. Personally, I … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 383: Every Thing is Peanut Butter

I ate too much peanut butter earlier and now I’ve entered a world of peanut butter. EVERY THING IS PEANUT BUTTER! What do I do? How do I live? How do I get on with the task of getting on? … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 380: Sydney is Waking up

The early morning, dark it is at this hour. There are birds that can be heard at some distance, making the sounds a bird does as the sunlight gradually reaches over this side of the planet in order to illuminate … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 379: There Was A Forest

There was a forest and within that forest were many a tree and on each tree were many a habitat and ecosystem containing many upon many invertebrates, each supporting their way of life and some indirectly supporting each other through … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 370: Glorious Days are Hard to Come by

Glorious days are hard to come by, so there is one coming around the corner. It can be felt among the populace of the very earth that we are on. We know that it will be here soon. The day … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 363: That Which Lies Before Me

The morning is bearing the day onward into unknown territories as a car drives around the highway that waves around coasts, along cliffs and through plains. The sky continues to heave and convulse among the amphitheater of the life that … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 362: Tearing at the Hair

My arms are hurting, as the wind blows upon them, pulling away at the muscles and tearing at the hair as it whips around in the sunset of the horizontal view that we can all see. My muscles hurt and … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 361: The Weather from this Morning

Where did this weather come from this morning? It seemed to roll on over the suburbs out of nowhere, coming to quench the land of its thirsty thirst in order to satiate the world and keep it from becoming far … Continue reading

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