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Weekly Contest #294
Fear can make you do crazy things; cry, laugh, scream, even kill. At this precise moment it is causing a man named Joe to run for his life. It is also causing seven members of an unknown faction to chase him. Joe doesn’t know where he is going; only that he has to get away. His chest pulses in and out as his body tries to drag in air to compensate for all the running. His legs ache as he pushes them to go faster. A voice in his head urges him on.(We need to go faster.)“Shut up, you think I don’t know that? It’s your fault we’re running in th...
Weekly Contest #275
For as long as I could remember, my mother let me sleep in her room. She even brought my bed into her bedroom. My days were filled with drinking milk and playing. Occasionally, my mother would bathe me which was the absolute worst. Other than that, life was grand. In the words of my mother, I was her precious little guy. Everything was going great until one fateful night.I lay curled up in my bed while my mother slept in her bed next to mine. Though I was mostly asleep, an annoying noise kept threatening to pull me from the chains of unconsc...
Weekly Contest #273
BlackoutI am lost in my own thoughts again. I blink my eyes rapidly as my focus returns. Was I daydreaming?Yellow road lines travel down the center of the dark red convertible I’m driving. I guide the car back into the right lane. Luckily, there is no oncoming traffic on this two lane road. As far as I can see, there is nothing at all out here. No other cars, no foliage, just a whole bunch of yellow desert and blue sky. The only thing breaking up the unending flatness is a brownish landmass in the far distance…Is that a butte or a mesa…...
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