The Endless Leg
It’s day 3 of Mac Sitko’s Fictionwocky challenge! In case you’re wondering, I’ll publish these as individual posts for now, then collect them in a weekly roundup and remove the one-offs.
Fallen
He wondered where he’d gone wrong, but in his heart he knew, because it was there that the trolls had picked up his scent and where he’d lost the boy, not that the boy had ever really been his in any real sense, but he’d been his responsibility nontheless, and now the trolls had him, or worse, he’d been taken by her, that wretched shrieking thing that hid herself behind the trolls and ettins and shapechangers, because she’d said she would take him, that she’d make him hers, make him love her — he stumbled and fell, shoulder slamming into jagged stone, and pain lancing across his already-broken arm, and he struggled to get back to his feet, to run, but as her laughter flowed across the fractured earth like fog, he knew it was too late and he was as lost to her as the boy.
Instructions:
Leg 3 – The Endless Leg: Write a complete microstory in a single sentence with no stopgaps at all (no periods). Just one long breath of text. For example, “He ran and blundered into the dark pool, deserting a man he couldn’t beat up anymore, then (…), and (…)”. So, the entire story must be one–still grammatically intact–sentence without using any sentence-ending punctuation. (You may use commas or conjunctions, or em dashes as needed, but no “.” or “;” to stop.)2