The sun was setting, according to the time on my watch. Not that I could tell in the fog. It changed from pearly to gray. I shivered in the cold, damp air. The grayness was disorienting and I had somehow left the road and walked out onto the moor. I don’t know how I had … Continue reading The Brick
Category: March Madness
Goal: One piece of flash fiction everyday with a word limit of 150 words.
This morphed into found word stories and took on its final form as SoC works.
Alive
I course with the deer and leap over logs without effort. We flow through the forest and dodge around trees. The deer slow and stop and curl in the tall grass for the night. I am not winded. Energy sings down my nerves. I see a fox out on his nightly rounds and trot along … Continue reading Alive
Calories
Calorimeter. And not just any calorimeter. A bomb calorimeter. Think pressure cooker for chemistry. And yes, thank you for asking, I have used one. Do they even have those anymore? It is for measuring the heat of combustion of a compound. Why would any of us need to know this? Well, I don’t know about … Continue reading Calories
Of Perfection and Perception
They speculated that divergent forms off the coast caused a fatal perfection in perception. Of course it was all conjecture. They couldn’t ask the smiling corpses laying in the sand with waves washing over them. They assume the lethality is total. They will eventually determine it is not. Until then, it is a secret between … Continue reading Of Perfection and Perception
Origin
Whilst in the ancient archipelagos, the progenitors spoke of peculiar sights. One such was the incessant oscillations of the twilight. They speculated that divergent forms off the coast caused a fatal perfection in perception. This caused the species to move toward extinction rather than preservation. However, abrupt transmutation could rescue those that were contemporaneous. This … Continue reading Origin
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