Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1304: Walking, Still, Motionless

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

A long day pressed against an unyielding greyscale landscape, and it seems to go hard. It seems to go hard and grow harder, more intense, and yet it is dull. It is dull and colourless. I am among its streets, … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1282: Pepper in Sauce

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Hearing my gut toss and turn is not something I want to hear right now, and I’m not so I don’t know where I’m going with this. I think I need to think of something else. Hearing the exceptional terror … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1281: Being Tired is a Thing

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Being tired is a thing that happens sometimes and you try to get used to it but you can’t always and so that’s the way life goes. However, it could be argued that it is better to not get used … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1277: Forward Direction

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

And so it goes into another evening and in that evening things turn around and spin and it all blurs and smears in a way that expresses that which is not but only can be, but only when it no … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1271: Boxes Getting Away

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Long day, all that stuff. Working and unpacking and working and unpacking and moving boxes and unpacking, then losing boxes as unpacking only to find that they absconded with other boxes and then you’re chasing down boxes to stop them … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1266: Bricks Changing Colours

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

I opened this to start writing and then I got distracted and that isn’t a good way to start things off, if I may be so blunt. It also isn’t good to start off things swinging around a hammer and … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1250: Too Much Coffee

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

So I’ve had far too much coffee for myself today and now I’m starting to space out. Trying to write this is a bit like trying to force something to move when it doesn’t want to move but I am … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1249: The Ideas Aren’t Flowing Forward

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

When I woke up this morning I had a moment similar to the one yesterday. Realised it was Wednesday, realised it was only Wednesday, but then I got on with whatever it was that I had to get on with … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1247: Adapting and Growing

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

The day stretches long and the colour in the sky is weird right now, but I can’t see much of it, so who knows really. Sitting here and very cold. Was going to write after some exercise as was warm. … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1246: Dragons in Reality

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Cold morning, don’t care. Gotta go look at places. Gotta go see new faces. What am I writing here? So anyway, I think that it’s time to be real: Dragons could totally exist within a contained space of reality so … Continue reading →

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