where the impossible seems three shorts steps to the left, and one giant leap into insanity…
"I'm telling you Kyle, no bullshit, I saw them going at it with my own eyes, Kendra and Mr Wells, not more than five minutes ago!" He yells at his younger brother, who rolls over and pretends to be asleep. "Kyle, for god sake, you've got to come and have a look, you'll regret it …
Continue reading "Day 362 – It Waits In The Basement – YouChallenge Short Story"
Lost in a haze of darkness, this blog, these stories are my only escape, reclaiming what was mine. The second YouChallenge was to tell a story about a panicked delivery driver who raced down the street. The original story it was taken from was called Thirty Minutes Or It's Free, which appeared in issue 432 …
Continue reading "Day 355 – Thirty Minutes Or It’s Free – YouChallenge Short Story"
When the blog began, Matthew served you up with the idea that each week he would take some sort of challenge from you, and write a story from it. The challenges were fake. How do I know this? An easy answer, because I wrote the stories he claimed to have created from the challenge ideas. …
Continue reading "Day 348 – Lost Days – YouChallenge Short Story"
She grips the lead pipe and turns in a circle, her eyes dart frantically around, trying to peer through the darkness that surrounds her, to no avail. "P-P-Please," she stammers, her lips trembling, tears running down her checks, freshly formed mucus runs from her nose, and into her mouth, forming a stringy, web like substance …
Continue reading "24 Days Until The End – Claude – YouChallenge Short Story"
They both sit there, staring at the glass, silently staring, one of them furrows his brow, grips his chin with a hand, and begins to make a clicking sound with his tongue, then starts to whistle, before finally, stretching and letting out a very loud yawn. "SO," he says loudly. "What tha fuck are we doing?" The …
Continue reading "31 Days Until The End – Mundane – YouChallenge Short Story "
11 Months has come, and gone, as you are reading this, 11 months of insanity, we are almost at our destination my dears, and what does that mean you all ask? It's a question I myself ask as well, after doing this for so long, it seems like second nature, to prepare something each day, …
Continue reading "11 Months, 700 Posts And A Slight Tick In My Left Eye – Daily Grind"
How long has it been since I shared words, too long I say, my mind has been elsewhere, preparing things, and, of course, keeping the blog turning over. What changes have come, Whispered Words as shifted and morphed into Wrapped In Words, the same, yet not. Tales of different kinds will find its way here, …
"Are we really going to do this?" He says nervously, looking towards her, she smiles, and he feels his heart beat, rapidly increase. "Are you scared?" "He said not to, out of everything, all of it, he only ever said, not to touch that, so, yeah, maybe I am." "Pathetic, how did I get paired …
Continue reading "Horrorween Day 2 – Apple – YouChallenge Short Story"
"Are you sure you're doing it right?" She says as she forces herself up, onto her tippy toes and peers over his shoulder, towards the open key pad, he glances at her and rolls his eyes. "How the hell should I know, I've never done anything like this before, I’m a geneticist, not an electrician." …
Continue reading "Day 160 – Tick Tock – YouChallenge Short Story"
"Are you really sure that's how you want to start it?" "What do you mean?" "Well, it's so, been done before more times than I can think of that's all," She says, smiling at him, he looks down at the piece of paper in front of him, and scans over the words and then back …
Continue reading "Day 153 – Sample – YouChallenge Short Story"
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