Category Archives: Fiction

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1199: It’s all Tunneling Now

I sat down tow rite a while ago and I am yet to start writing, although this counts as a start so I guess it is more fair to say that this is the start of me writing, but it … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1197: Never Enough Weekend

A long slog at work and now I write in the evening. I don’t want to be writing now but I’m doing it anyway. It is good to keep some semblance of routine, sometimes. Well, maybe it would be better … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 198: Long Walk Along a Road

A long distance seems to stretch on our ahead and it needs to be traversed. It might take time and it seems eternal, but it will be traversed in some manner. Would be better with a car, but sometimes you … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1194: Going Forward Backward

Afternoon is the great enemy as it invites more procrastination. That is what I’m going to tell myself as I am currently racing about and trying to get things done before I need to go and get more things done. … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1193: Careening Into the Sun

Coated in sweat. It feels like I’m wearing it as though it were a shell, but that is most definitely not the case. It has been a hot day and I’m sweaty and I need to cool down. Maybe I … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1174: Leaving Home

The waves broke along the shoreline as the sun rose, shifting the colour and the mood of the sky. A breeze firm and favourable moved around everything and they stood there, in the increasing shade of a large rock, looking … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1173: Through the Evening

It certainly is a day, though the day has mostly faded at this stage so I should call it a period of late afternoon in the period known as a day. I’ve been thinking about a lot of things and … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 195: A Passion for Boats

It was a fairly cloudless day. The wind blew westward, or at least it blew roughly westward, and the waves were, for the most part, low. The beach’s slope was gentle, though it seldom wasn’t and everything looked like it … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1171: Need to Announce the Requirement to Pretend

Here I am, once more at the end of another day. Well, it hasn’t ended; it’s just late into the afternoon but that doesn’t sound as poetic or dramatic, though “end of another day” doesn’t either, so I don’t know … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 194: A Fishing Day Ends

They sat there and they fished, and as they fished they thought about how the waves and wind raging against the other side of the small cape were close, but were it not for the sound of the waves crashing … Continue reading

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