Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1344: Afraid of Horses

Alright let’s start. Left too many spaces so I removed them and I don’t know why I did that anyway. I think it just might be the act of not thinking, or something. Am I not thinking? Yes. Should I … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1335: Some Rambling About Using Time

Got some time at the moment so may as well make the most of it. Of course I should be doing other things but this is a nice day and I’m inside, so I’m going to use it however which … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1323: Profuse Sweating

So I’m sitting here, pouring out sweat but it’s not a hot night, or at least it didn’t initially feel like a hot night, but it is now and so my pores are pouring and I can’t do much about … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1314: On Hold

So I just spent some time on hold and it was both long and short and that’s the way things go, I guess. You kind of start wondering as to how much of your life is spent on hold and … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1313: Itchiness

Itchiness is something that I haven’t written about before, or at least I think I haven’t written about itchiness before. I don’t know if I care to find out at this present moment, but I know that soon I will … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1311: Uncertainty of This Light

And so it is not quite early morning on another day bit it is an earlier start than most days. There is some traffic outside but it’s not in the jam state of traffic and so it’s not quite edible, … Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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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