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Six Sentence Story — A Cog in the Machine

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He is but a tiny cog in an infinite machine, endlessly turning, grinding through another monotonous day that was the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.

He wakes up, eats, sleeps, and repeats, getting nowhere fast, his thoughts a monotonous hum, a background noise to the relentless grind.

A daily routine comprised of nothing new, nothing original, just the same old-same old.

He yearns for something more, a spark of individuality, a chance to break free from this machine of sameness.

He occasionally sees a glimpse of possibility where he feels the opportunity may be there to shift the paradigm and exercise some power.

But the gears of the machine keep turning, and he, a tiny cog, is powerless to stop them.

Written for the Sunday Six Sentence Story prompt from Girlie on the Edge, where the prompt word is “machine.”

Five Word Weekly Challenge — The Sting

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Barry and Anita were having what any casual observer would call a fling.

Barry’s wife Shonda began to get suspicious when he started wearing a lot of bling.

It was nothing really valuable, Barry told her, not a lot of cha-ching.

But Shonda wasn’t powerless and gave Barry back her wedding ring.

For the divorce lawyer she made a recital of every jointly owned thing.

And in the end, Barry realized that his bling made him the victim of her sting.

Written for Greg’s Five Word Weekly Challenge, where the words are bling, fling, powerless, recital, and valuable. Image credit: Bing Image Creator.