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Shortlisted for Contest #348 ⭐️
TW: death Tick. Tick. Tick. It is the old pocket watch on the counter to his right that Alistair can hear the loudest. The one he has just fixed. It was a problem with the balance wheel. He had: *Removed the back of the watch *Identified the problem: a bend in the balance wheel *Taken the balance wheel out to re-stake it back into alignment *Fixed the broken hairspring *Returned the hairspring and the balance wheel to the watch and replaced the casing The balance wheel had been a little tricky. It’s a delicate piece of equipment. One...
Weekly Contest #285
TW: blood, dissociation, troubled perceptions of reality Five “... so this monk gets told to swim down to the seabed and unhook the anchor from whatever it’s caught on. But when he does, he realises it’s caught on a bell tower, and then looks down and sees all of these other monks looking up at him. And the weird thing is, they’re not swimming or anything. They’re just going about their lives. And they’re looking up at him as if he’s the strange one, as if he’s just flown down out of the sky. Anyway, he lives with them for a year, and ...
Weekly Contest #254
10.09 It’s been another bountiful day for your humble provisioners of the finest celebrity gossip here at Hey Hun. Everyone’s favourite (cough) actress Evangeline Logan has kindly provided us with another of her famed outbursts. This time, her rage was ignited by a smoothie. That’s right folks! Apparently, it was made with soy milk instead of oat milk. We heard that a camera man had to make liberal use of a bag of frozen peas after a spoon went flying and collided with his forehead. Let’s hope the peas don’t find their way into any fut...
Shortlisted for Contest #244 ⭐️
With both fingers I repeatedly zoomed in and out of the photo. Then I zoomed and un-zoomed even faster, until my screen was just a nauseating blur. I wasn’t sure whether I was trying to make myself feel sick, or if I was hoping that when I finally stopped – when the photo eventually came to a standstill – it would rearrange itself completely into something that made sense. But when I did stop, I was just as confused. Once more, I added up the constituent parts: dark hair splayed on the pillow, shiny skin dappled with bruise-like smudges of m...
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