Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1271: Boxes Getting Away

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

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

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

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

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

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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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1242: The Light and the Place it Could not Touch

Somewhere frozen and warm is a place where no light can touch as the light does not have hands and we’re not going to use the metaphorical or symbolic here, for now is the time of the blandest story of … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1238: Toyota Camry Summoning Illusions

I’ve opened this and I need to get moving on the writing but it’s cold so my hands aren’t working as well as perhaps they should, but that’s the way of things when the way of things go that way… … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1225: No Respite in This Heat

Tired. Hot. Lack of sleep. Hot day. These are not related. However, if I say them over and over enough times, I think I might discover something new. I don’t need to do this to myself during summer but at … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1218: Walking Down the Street

Alright, so seeing as I dropped the ball on the earlier attempt it’s time to do another attempt for today. I don’t want to as I’m in that state of laziness that requires a lot of energy to do very … Continue reading

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