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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 1399: Through the Long Tail

I feel wretched. A sudden illness that has passed and left lingering stuff. Fun times. It was an overnight thing and now I go through the long tail of it, but I’ll rebound. Don’t have much choice, really. Kind of … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1373: Another Cold Day

Another cold day and all that stuff and you get the so on and so forth, blah blah blah. I’m listening to These New Puritans, and it’s not the worst day outside; nor is it the worst inside, but I … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1354: High and / or Mighty

Being sick has sucked, but there is some good news, but I need to wait before I can say anything, but, so long as everything checks out, I should be saying something good soon. That’s not about that though, and … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1241: Some Distraction this Evening

Gotta stop doing this. Gotta stop writing so late into the evening but I’m doing it again. Plus side is that my wrist isn’t hurting so much right now. The minus side is that I’m tired and I want to … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1179: Time to Keep on Going

It’s morning. It is before work and I’m trying to pick myself back up after a few days (or weeks, or months) of being on the floor, so to speak. It’s the way things go and it’s okay. Sometimes you … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 918: Rain Continues

And so the rain continues and continues to howl and roar and all of those other things, and I sit hear and write about it and try to capture the mood and atmosphere. I imagine that soon it will be … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 804: A Frog

So once upon a time there was a frog. This was an ordinary frog and it did the things that a frog does. It wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. It may have been sitting on a lily pad … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 55: Suburban Days 5

Standing and sitting in silence seemed as though it was going to be the main thing for the rest of the afternoon, so NAME walked back around him and went back inside. Perhaps he too should have gone back inside, … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 419: Vibrations

It pierces and it menaces and it drives along through various stages, but as distinct as it is, it is also amorphic as it reaches some sort of meaning and communication through the medium of air being moved in order … Continue reading

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