Fiction

500 Words

Flash fiction

Caitlin McColl
Inkslinger Magazine
3 min readFeb 19, 2022
Photo by Mariia Zakatiura on Unsplash

Do you know what it feels like to think you are about to die? Well, I do. Everything slows down and then stops. All the life, all the colours drain out of everything. It’s like you’re trying to conserve every last bit of energy into just keeping yourself alive, to keep your heart pumping and your mind thinking. You go into survival mode: sounds disappear until all you hear is your…

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Caitlin McColl
Inkslinger Magazine

I write about mental health, the future, grief & loss, mindfulness, general life musings (+ fiction and poetry!). ❤️coffee & dogs. 🇨🇦