Word-At-A-Time-Blog

The first rays of dawn fingered their way slowly over the land. Through the long night, two soldiers had stood watch in a foxhole. Over the course of the night they had grown hungry, tired and punchy. “What are we doing here, Sarge?” asked Private Billy, for the tenth time. “It’s war,” replied Sergeant Dick … Read more

It felt like a big, elaborate hoax. Indeed, the first mention of it had been on social media, and it had come from one of those crazy blogs that nobody took seriously, and spent many posts berating each other for posting in the first place. The first ‘granny cloud’ had appeared over the Indian Ocean. … Read more

Nord Bingstrom had come to notice a tiny door at the bottom of the far wall would open up to allow a tray of food to be pushed inside. He sometimes ate the food, or he did not. It didn’t matter, for, within some amount of time, the tray would be gone without his noticing … Read more