Today, I worked on the fast pacing for the side quest and thus my sidequest for this week is complete.
A dead blue duck on the road. Splattered blood, scattered feathers.
A predator’s growl. Quiet steps all around you.
You think back to your ornithology courses. You find nothing about confronting predators.
Cold sweat. Your heart tries to escape your chest.
The only way is up.
The growls intensify. Something nips your heel as you climb.
You wait in the tree. Hours pass.
You tire before the predators do.
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N. WS. Jokela, more commonly known as WindySilver, is a Finnish programmer and a hobbyist artist fighting a war against procrastination on the losing side. When her free time is not taken up by things like reading, procrastination, video games, watching series or more procrastination, she mainly writes sci-fi fanfiction and original flash fiction of various genres. While she dabbles in a lot of things ranging from digital art to jewelry to plants to whatever catches her interest, writing is her persistent forte.
You should not give her yet another crazy flash fiction challenge to take part in because she simply cannot say "no" to it.
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Very fast! Very easy to understand! Very realistic! Very tasty? XD
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Thank you! XD
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Omg. A cassowary? That’s the vibe I’m getting.
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I actually didn’t even think about what is after the protagonist, so it might be cassowaries – or something completely else. Thanks for reading! :D
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I think the setting was well brought up in this story, a nice short story :)
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Thank you! :D
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