Tag: Six Sentence Stories
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False Alarm?

Through the steamy, sticky heat of the engine room, and over the constant rattling and whirring of the various parts of the aging EveryNook core generator, Sam heard the ship’s emergency proximity alarm sound – an interrupted, three-tone sound which increased in pitch from a dull bass sound to an extremely high screech; all of…
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The Icebreaker

The shade from the large oak tree gave respite from the glaring brightness and heat of the midday sun; the soft fabric of the foldable chair provided the means for a moment’s rest at least; the icy-cold and extremely effervescent lemonade gave a much needed refresh to the expected thirst; and the rhythmic songs from…
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Rainbow Harvest

For Six Sentence Stories; the theme word is ‘Match’. “Turnips shouldn’t be blue…” Alice laughed as Godfrey finally found what he’d spent had felt like hours looking for – yet another disappointment after the four red onions all came up orange and the two carrots a dull shade of yucky green/brown – “…but at least…
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Open!

The night was cool, although warmer than those dark winter nights we’ve just gone through; spring still has its fair share of the cold ones – frozen mornings and all that. I found myself lost… wandering through shadowed street after shadowed street, looking for inspiration to match my thirst for creativity, but only finding dimming…
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Gwylfryn Burning

Centuries ago, just inside the Welsh border, existed a small village known as Gwylfryn. In those days, people didn’t have names, but used where they came from and what they did as their ‘name’. One villager, Gwylfryn Hunterre, was the hunter – so proud a marksman was he, only one bird defied his arrows; the…