Stories tagged with "pursuit"
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Novel Canyons and a Cross Without a Church

The boy turned to his father, face aglow. For a moment I was flattered that my gift had meant so much. But his eyes held a qu…
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A Long Way Isn't Always the Best Way, but Neither is the Easy Way

It was hard to run in the bio-hazard suit. Steve cut through an alleyway. He stumbled over a dead body, luckily no one he kn…
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It Suits You

I tried fruitlessly to wipe the tomato from my eyes, spitting an occasional seed from my mouth. The vendor was angrily yellin…
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This Is The Fun Part!

A sadistic grin on his face, the officer turned to Sassy. “This is the fun part!”
Into the radio he said, “Suspect fleeing…
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Vain Pursuits

De Grave wound his way through the London streets as he did most nights, from one privileged diversion to the next. He rounde…
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Salvation or Something Else

I’d hate to be thought of as prideful, but I was feeling pretty good about myself. My ill-fated high jump over the fence had …
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Give Chase

He was a machine.
A machine, Henry was a machine. Rebecca shook herself—behind the veil that hid his face was not flesh a…
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Stunts and Motivation

Wishing I’d remembered the old neighborhood better I turned blindly down an alley. I wasn’t sure how much distance there was …
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Theseus Had It Easy (desperate monologue challenge)

Oh, another blue wall stretching away into the distance, what a shock. Every wall has been blue and stretching away into the …
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Recursion
Menacingly, they stepped towards him. He had no choice. If he stayed here, he’d be just as dead. But if he took a chance, and…
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