Random haiku #9

Red light, on a bike.
No danger should I run it.
Does not flesh beat steel?

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Okay, okay, I get it. You're part of some bicycle team. Practicing for some big event. Guess what? I used to have to ride a bike everywhere I wanted to go, and I'll still say you're an idiot for running the red turn arrow on a bicycle.

Flesh colliding with a minimum thousand pounds of high speed steel? Yeah, you'll lose that fight ten times out of ten.

Hmm. Is it me or have almost all these haiku been grumpy/snarky?

30 Days R2/S2 - Day 7 Frigid

This a Flashfic based on a prompt from aldersprig and kc_obrien's 30 Days of Flash Fiction: Round 2 Meme

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Day 7 - Prompt: Frigid

Hmm. I think the combination of frigid making me think of winter and aldersprig's recent call for abduction story ideas made me remember this earlier idea of mine. Certainly the start of an idea, but I'm not sure where if anywhere it leads...

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Osita trudged through new fallen snow. Watching the ground just ahead of him as he took each step. His mind growing as numb as his feet. On step after another, and then another. Walking long past wanting to stop. Wanting to rest for even a moment.

I shouldn't have kicked him.

Yelping as the slack on the rope around his neck was tugged, nearly dropping him to his knees. Simple fear all that drove his legs faster.

I really shouldn't have kicked him.

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