More Writing Prompts Still

Like I said last week, I would be utilizing lots of writing prompts from around the interwebs. Today I am doing two. The first is for the Five Sentence Fiction writing prompt, this weeks word/theme is CANDY.  The second is for a contest called Thursday Threads, in which the phrase to be used in your story comes from the winners story from last week. Thanks for stopping by, Happy Reading!

Five Sentence Fiction-Candy

It was all a haze as he came back to consciousness, that decadent smell of candy, sugary sweet, whipped his thoughts into place.

“NO, did it happen again, I was sure I had it on it’s last leg?,” he hollered.

“I’m afraid you didn’t quite defeat him this time, but I’m sure that next time you will beat him handily my boy,” assured his father.

He was not unfamiliar with the hardships of this land, all the strange creatures that seemed surreal by terran standards that had become commonplace as a part of their existence on this remote planet. At the very least the supply ship had dropped off the colony’s rations of candy so that he would have a chance of recovering from the stinger of the beetle ox, and breaking it, then he could join the war party next season to protect the harvest.

 #ThursThreads

He stood there adrenaline pumping, bodies strewn across the field where they had done battle. He had not been in such a melee in his life. Even though they were half his size, the Rondrats gave him one hell of a fight. The Koochens rushed in and swept him up onto their shoulders, parading him back to the village. In the clan leader’s tent he heard recounts of his daring deeds in battle, it all seemed surreal. Just twelve days ago he was a simple farm boy on a colony planet. Now, according to the clan leaders, he was going to be the namesake of the village.  It was a much better monument than a cold stone in a manicured cemetery, which going in, he was certain was going to be the outcome.