Algai 'd' Aman's Favorites
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The End

The end of the world was nigh and we all knew it. It wasn’t something we didn’t see coming. They foretold it for years – we’d…
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My superpower sucks
With the recent wave of people receiving super powers I would like to officially declare that my super power sucks.
My mom g…
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Eight Down

The mewing of cats welcomed Dawn as she slid into her flat. A fat orange tabby tried to squeeze past a white-pawed black cat …
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Unexpected Travels in Time
Jor was a hunted man.
Short and stocky as he was, he scaled the chain-linked fence faster than he imagined he could. His an…
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BooBooUndo

NEW! The BooBooUndo Button, just $19949.99 from Cronotron Industries!
They said time travel was impossible, but they never m…
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Unexpected and Unwanted Travels in Time

Jor sighed. Normally you might expect a man who had just had experienced his own death to react less calmly than to simply co…
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A deathly hiccup

He’d watched all the movies of course. The heroes that live each day over until they find the one key, that one little item/e…
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Free For All
In January, the time-travelers began appearing in droves. They wore the garb of many different centuries. Most wandered aimle…
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How to Buy a Time Machine
Sam was having a crummy day, a lackluster week, and a downright disappointing life. His girlfriend broke up with him, his car…
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Cause of Death: Natural Causes

The man thought his last thought: what a pain it was, to be old.
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The Witness

The boy looked on from the closet, clutching the stolen uranium.
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Something Extra [Minimum Length Ficlet Challenge]

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Future Field Trip With Billy Jo Bud To The Genetic Mutation Farm{64 Character Challenge}

Here we are. Exit and do not touch them flowers that ask you to.
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Rise up (Minimum length challenge)

He stood by the grave. When she rose, he smiled. “Welcome back.”
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The Teenager and her God

My boots were filled with water and I was oblivious. There was a fly buzzing my head like a tiny kamikaze. He zipped in and o…
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64 Characters

Dan, the field mouse, strode confidently into the meadow saying, “We challenge you, for the pride of our fathers, for the sak…
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Five Things that Scare the Life out of Me

This one really took alot of thought. But, here goes:
1. One day my boys will look down at me and say, “Boy Mom, you really …
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Cat the Dancing Mouse: A Philosophical Exploration of the Pen Name That Rocked Your Socks...And a New Contest: *CLOSING DATE ANNOUNCED*
Cat the Dancing Mouse. It makes as much sense as two peas in a pod, as peapods never have two peas. Of course, I am referin…
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Fibonacci Poem
Light.
Dark.
Raining.
Wind gusting.
Clouds cover the sun.
The cold creeps in through the window.
It reminds me that I …
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three beers before ficlet
He walked over to the mini-fridge, grabbed the church key, and pulled open his third beer for the evening. This Pilsner Urque…
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A Question For Buddha2012

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Waste not, Want not
Mana from Heaven it was, almost literally.
We woke one day to a strange rain, flaming meteorites the size of cars streaking…
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The Monk Asks a Question

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Knowledge of Self

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Contact

I ran through every sensor scan I could, trying to get any information on the pulsing, transforming mass in front of us. It d…
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Starspiration

“What?”
Strange jittery tones went through the ship, as musical as Kayla’s noise.
Kayla?
I peered at the long flashing li…
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Chew Your Food Slowly

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Minefield
“Tell us what we’re looking at, Doctor.” The main screen showed a black pyramidal object floating against a field of stars.
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Transmigration

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So it was her all along

Run! shouted the lizard that lives at the base of my brain, but I just stood there, rooted like a tree. I’d seen Emily thro…
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Kitchen Science
“Ok Jimmy I give up, why the hell is there a bag of frozen vegetables scattered across the kitchen table?” He was huddled ove…
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A Child's Last Plea
I am the last one left.
My twelve brothers and sisters. My mother, father,aunts, uncles, cousins… all gone.I don’t know w…
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Die Too Slowly (CLFM 32)

“Hi, My name is Richard Quickly, some people call me Dick.”
I recognized Danny, chubbier and greasier, than when he was youn…
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FICLETS IS BEING INVADED!!!!!
FICLETS IS BEING INVADED(OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!) by people who write seqels and preqels that don’t have _anythin…
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FICLETS IS BEING INVADED!!!!! PRT.2

Oh and this site is also being invaded by people who take stories personally, and then send the author a note (NOT A COMMENT)...
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Wet, Warm and Furry
“Why hello little thing. Aren’t you just the cutest!”
“Are you lost? Poor thing, you’re soaking wet.”
“Aw, look at that li…
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Humiliation
“Please state your name.”
“James Compostela.”
“Where do you currently live?”
“Why? Do you not have that? I don’t understan…
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Are you a Human or an Ant?(Then again, what's the difference?)
“Maybe the ants are just biding their time…you know, there are squillions of them, they could take over the world easily if…
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And they all called him crazy
The whisper came through his neural interface immediately. Jon had just wished for the answer, and there it was. He stood up …
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Confronting Reality
My mom and I sat on her bed watching the TV blankly. We were both trying not to think; she flipped the channels muttering som…
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Paul's Bodyguard

But his attack was abruptly thwarted – Jon was lifted high into the air, a rough hand disarming him. He hung by his shirt, bo…
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Enlightened Perspectives (Marcus' adventures begin)
Marcus struggled to keep from bursting out in laughter . . . blah blah finally he heard what his supervisor was saying. ” . ....
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Where to go. What to do.
Stress comes from many things.
This is the statement that Winnie thinks of while she catches herself grinding her teeth aga…
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And suddenly the prophecies continued
I was carried away in the Spirit to a place upon a lofty mountain.
I saw and look! The heavens fled away like a scroll. I h…
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Observer And Observed
She wandered among the trees aimlessly. It was late in the fall, he could feel winter’s first bites in the air. The trees wer…
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Past, Future Johns need to leave me the hell alone
Alright. So, I’m twenty-one, finally in college doing a bit of the classes thing and a lot of partying. I’m sitting on my bed…
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Caturday
It’s time.
Uncurling, stretching… graceful awakening.
Cleaning, tidying. All is right. Beauty.
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Dead Dreams
When I dream I dream of deserts. Dry, dead, wastelands, scuttling beetles scraping on molted gray trees.
When I dream I drea…
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Into Battle alt.

Suddenly Marcus stood amidst a vast battlefield. There were warriors in formation as far as the eye could see. The sight of t…
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Across Space and Time
The letter was short. As he held the aging piece of paper in his hand, Bartleby felt cheated, but couldn’t put his finger on …
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1 min ficlet...... and GO!
Umm… Pizza.
The traveling pizza.
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1 min ficlet returns for more

Oh Chinese food buffet
with your chicken and broccoli
fried shrimp and crab legs and
squid?... eww.Oh, my plate is so small…
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Building an Adventure- The Island of Will
You wake up to a sweet-smelling breeze. Your mind takes a moment to register that you are not home in your bed. You stand and…
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Maiden Voyage
The wind was a cold, biting wind.
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Oh, Humanity

I have seen nations fall.
I have seen the lineage of Kings and Queens rise and fall like the ebbing of the ocean.
I have se…
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Four Corners I Have Suffered
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There's Something In My Closet
Dear Mom and Dad,
I’m writing you this letter so you know what happened to me when that thing in my closet finally eats me.
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You still believe in that?

Dear Son,
You’re thirteen. Grow a pair.
Dad
(Or I will put something in your closet!)
