Two Sentence Tuesday #14

His only distraction from the grating five AM desolation was the spiteful choir of voices in his head. How strange that he found their taunts comforting… 

Two Sentence Tuesday #13

It was all I could do to composedly tolerate the clock’s sadistic taunts as it ticked the seconds past with the speed of a snail on Xanax. Would this day never end?

Two Sentence Tuesday #12

After hours of trudging down a sweltering gravel road, I felt my legs sinking into the ground while I gasped for breath. Circling vultures leered at me from above and I could swear they began laughing as they flew in for the kill.  

Two Sentence Tuesday #11

The raging warrior raised his blood-flecked gladius high above his head in savage triumph. Throughout the colossal throng of spectators, not a celebratory whisper was offered.

Two Sentence Tuesday #10

As the mysterious spacecraft descended through the clouds, wide rays of light projected from a device on its aft hull that closely resembled a thick black television antenna. Everything touched by the beam’s glow was instantly swallowed in a flood of barbarous green flames.

Two Sentence Tuesday #9

            Beneath his master's penetrating gaze, the apprentice wizard clumsily fumbled through the troublesome incantation. One cloud of acrid smoke later, the apprentice blushed with horror as his master's face had turned the color of raw sewage.

Two Sentence Tuesday #8

She loitered at the edge of the festivities, perfecting the art of invisibility. That, to her, was a cakewalk next to joining in the celebration.