Random Word Generator: Six words, 20 minutes
frozen, cola, alien, improper, sparkle, lock
The glass was frozen. In space, but not time. It hung suspended in the air, the drops of cola with it, casting glittering light across the hard-angled shadows on the wood floor. The man stared at it as if he, too, had been caught in the moment, captured, a breathing photograph. He reached out a tentative hand, reaching through space, through time, fingers trembling as he brushed the frosted edge of the glass. Something resonated deep within him, a note, low and strong, and an alien sense of power surged through his very being, leaving him swirling along in its invisible eddies.
He reached out again, seizing the glass with one decisive swipe of his hand, and the spell was broken. The cola splashed wetly back into the shadows, and the glass was again no more than a glass in his hand, ordinary, unassuming. The improper laws of physics resumed, heedless of the new gravity of truth.
He set the glass down on the floor almost reverently, admiring the way the frosted edges caught the sun and harnessed the sparkle of intangible life. An immense satisfaction filled him, and he sank to the ground beside the glass, leaning back on his haunches to survey his prize again. He flicked a stray lock of hair out of his narrowed eyes. The symmetry. The perfect symmetry. That must have been it. He pressed his cheek to the cool wooden panels, devouring the sight as his eyes slipped closed. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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