Challenge
The mundane turned suspenseful.
Take an ordinary occurrence and ramp up the tension. Make the everyday exciting. Be sure to keep your story under 1000 words.
This is an exercise in brevity and suspense-building. Fiction, nonfiction; either works. The form, however, must be prose rather than poetry.
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Just Another Mundane Monday
Oh, my God. I'm losing my grip. My hands are so slippery; I don't know if I can hold on much longer. It's such a precarious position. I look down, then quickly switch my weight from one side to the other in the hopes that I can hang on. I can feel my fingers further losing their tentative hold, so I reach out my other hand to grab the plate before it crashes to the floor. Thank goodness my reflexes are still good because I then throw that plate at the...oh, wait! There's nobody there; it was just a shadow. Damn. There goes the plate. I watch it crash on the floor, turning into a pile of glass and shards. I shrug and leave it there for later, then return to washing the dishes.