Ok, a fast and short fiction ... I was off the blocks like an arrow unleashed. The sun was scorching hot today, breathing down tongues of flame. On such hot days ones muscles tend to be loose, sans any rigidity, and kind of ready to explode. As I clenched my jaws, powered on in my long strides and crunched my core muscles for that extra burst of speed, I could clearly hear the thundering of the one galloping to overtake me in the race. I quickly glanced back, the follower was gaining rapidly upon me with equally long strides, the…