SS Prompt 5: Stale
Word Count: 1200 words exactly
Deadline: 20 May 2020
Please do not post before the deadline.
After leaving the office Brendan Daly sat in his car for a few minutes. It was a routine to allow the day depart from him before returning home to his wife and children. This moment today was different from usual…...
“This is pointless,” he muttered slamming the laptop shut on the picture of Madge, perfectly pleasant though she seemed. One message and he already knew he didn’t have any interest in her hobbies and plans to travel. She’d wear me…...
Fresh and Frisky Meeting, connecting, clicking, sparking; building that bond that seems will last forever, such as new love goes. The courting rituals of concerts and shows, dinners in and out, pubs walked into and crawled out of, all urgent…...
It wasn’t meant to be. Angela kneaded the spot where the wrecking ball pounded away behind her left eye. The bridge of her nose ached from the reinforced ridges of her N95. Her nephew was getting married in less…...
Iega Monsoon’s cheap spacecraft makes a shoddy landing on the open planes surrounding Bounties Keep. Situated at the southern-most point of Heteric’s fifth moon, this rundown tavern has been the not-so-secret base of operations for bounty hunters from across the…...
The first time I saw the sword, a shimmer danced down the blade. I was just nine years old standing behind the screen of our two roomed home, hiding, or so I thought, so that my grandfather would not discover…...
