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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1500: Relaxed and Sad

This morning I walked almost eight kilometres to save a bit of money on parking. Well, also to avoid dealing with city traffic, but you know. Since then, it’s been a bit of a dead day. Going to try and … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1472: A Good Chance at Opportunity

Doing the whiplash thing now. Have a job interview coming up this week. That’s some good news. It’ll be proper comfort money, too, which is a bonus. More interested in what the role offers, to be honest, but having a … Continue reading

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The First Song is “Feather”

So yesterday I got dumped at lunchtime. Eight years. A time both short and long by many measures. I tried to get back to working, couldn’t. Left work early, they were understanding. Talked about it with my now-ex, she was … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1446: Filling in the Spots

Yesterday I challenged myself to a little bit of worldbuilding and it spiraled away from what I was trying to do, time-wise, and it’s still going but that’s okay. Sometimes that happens. But I was hoping to have it done … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1434: Thank you, spiders.

Wondering as to how much nonsense I can write in twelve minutes. Hopefully this will be less than that time, but we’ll see. Trying to get the words out, and thinking about the ceiling and how it continually needs replacing … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1423: There is no getting away

What is even going on? I’m sitting here and nothing is happening, and this person is droning in my ear and I have no freedom to articulate or respond. I cannot get away mas they follow me wherever I go, … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1382: Wanting to be too Aware

Alright, going to see if I can get some stuff done before work… again. It’s nice. This is all nice. It’s nicer in here than it is out there, though that’s a matter of perspective, really. What am I going … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1229: Staying Awake

I’m so spent right now and want to have an early night but this is something I cannot do for there is a great deal of work ahead. A lot of writing and another interview, the second of today. I’m … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1216: Day Shapes

Fatigue rears its head once more but I can get through it. I can persevere. Wind and all that, sitting here, feeling warm, feeling cool, feeling a lot of things but the day contorts into shapes I do not recognise. … 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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