Tag: Six Sentence Stories
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To Be Continued
It burns within, this passion. The urge, the fire, the need to create. A spark triggers a thought, that triggers a line, that leads to a paragraph, a page. The joy of being carried along as words paint a picture, build a world, create a lifetime. Sometimes, however, it isn’t easy as blocks get in…
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Salamander
There’s a saying that goes something like don’t play with fire… which is common sense when you think about it… although there must be – has to be – a fine line between playing with it and looking into it… deeply, elementally, I mean, not just watching the flames flicker. I did just that, looked…
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Trophy
The storm was ferocious; strong winds, thunder, lightning, and rapidly undulating waves that buffeted Cygnet’s Admiral around like it was weightless; Captain Stalton had difficulty keeping on course but he was somehow managing it. The ships radio was out of action after the ship had been struck by lightning for the third time… Stalton could…
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Jinkies
You don’t get to become a world-famous investigator over night… I mean, you could do, but you couldn’t really be any good at it. When I started out, I was terrible… no, not terrible, let me rephrase that, I was overenthusiastic. I’d somehow find myself in precarious situations, being the brains and the boffin of…
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Small Beginnings
All this little creature does, it seems, is sleep; well, sleep and eat the shredded paper it’s laying on… mind you, it is a very old dictionary, and that’s enough to put anyone to sleep. I’m going to have to build a special aviary for it (him/her); I know for a fact this species, especially…
