Ficlets | artistsrunwild's Favorites

artistsrunwild's Favorites

Heap of Trouble in Liberty Junction

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

I got a sour feeling in the pit of my belly the way that cavalry soldier was looking past Annie at Cole in the saloon.

“You …
Out of Luck in Liberty Junction

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

‘You better aim better then I hear ya do marshall, you jes got lucky when you shot and killed my brother Clay, you sonnofadad…
Room 121

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

Adrien tugged away from Greg’s grasp, sliding towards room 121’s door for some inexplicable reason. He reached out a hand.

”...
Hidden Destruction

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Life is like the thread, you see. Alone and unaffected it is a small and insignificant thing. Wound tightly enough, life infl…
A reapperence

by BetwINeen 9 months ago

i started to breathe hard and sat slowly down in an arm chair.
Why was this guy ruining my life?!
I thought back to when I …
And Then there were Three

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

The giant guy dragged Rachelles’ lifeless body into the restaurants’ spacious kitchen.

The Elderly man grabbed at his chest….
The Social Studies Fuhrer

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

“And can any of you ingrates possibly tell me the capital of Turkey, of Old Earth?” she said, thwipping her thin rod against …
He Doesn't Know

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

Henri waited at the bus stop, his hair blacker than ever in the rain. “Henri?” asked a distinctly female voice. “Oh, Henri, I…
Oops

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

“Mrs. Thompson?” Scarlet stood in the doorway. The clock had just struck ten, and Holden’s mother was alone in the den. Mrs. ...
Someday,Someway{Another Lame attempt at Poetry/Songwriting}

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

I Know I will find her someday.
I’ve been searching all my life.
Sometimes I see her in my dreams.
I know that I will find he…
Lack of Prelude to a Question

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Den ran through in his mind what he was doing: give card, get drink, breathe, turn, don’t spill, hand to girl, turn back, sig…
Burning Bridges

by MG 9 months ago
You Know It's a Good Party When...

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Eyes wide, Malcolm sat on the couch staring at nothing, saying nothing. All around him lay the detritous of yet another fabul…
Worse Things Than Murder

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

Mrs. Learella Kingston had spent three weeks holed up in a tiny filthy, putrid smelling, bathroom.
The walls were gritty and …
Drip..Drip..Drip:My Three Sons

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

Only that one time when the man yelled at her through the door, had Mrs. Learella Kingston heard any sounds from outside the …
Riviera High

by DorianGray 9 months ago

The alarm sounded and Alex Johnson opened his eyes to the poster stuck to his ceiling.
_It’s morning and you’re awake. Thank…
Order in the Court...2

by DorianGray 9 months ago

I remember sitting in a lecture hall at Uni and thinking, someday I would save the world. I would rid the third world countri…
Drifting Melodies

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

The first time she had heard the song, she thought someone had turned the radio too loud. She had been on a bus, and bus driv…
Biological Warfare: The Shocking Story of the Dawson Family

by blueyedwonder 9 months ago

MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICAN FAMILY DIES OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ATTACK

2 days ago, the Dawson family was found dead in their house…
New Study: The Effects of Imminent Death on the Female Adolescent Mind

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

I never really saw how beautiful the oaks in our neighborhood were. Not until I was trapped in this car driving off to my doo…
Every Night

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

Henri ran through the streets. Why did that girl think I knew them? Who do I reminds her of? The only way to get his questi…
Janet Willoughby

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

Salvador Ct. was a truly unusual suburban empire. Though spanning only one cul-de-sac, it packed more oddities than any forei…
I Am Rage

by THX 0477 9 months ago

I…am…rage. This mortal dream has begun to bore me. How dare they insult my divinity with the indignity wrought upon what …
Above

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Above

Above the morays of contemporary life
Above the rote and dry facts
Above the catastrophes and pratfalls of socializing…
Becoming Lillia

by someday_93 9 months ago

The painting was covered by a thin layer of dust. As she pulled back the heavy red curtain, Kiarra was apprehensive. Why, she…
Statue

by blueyedwonder 9 months ago

His childlike face was bowed with adult despair. Tears trickled down like tributaries off the river of sorrow inside him. For…
Rememberance

by blueyedwonder 9 months ago

In that star-struck world between life and death, she remembered Acantheus. The floodgates opened; she remembered his chestnu…
Stained Air

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

Smoke poured out of the gaping hole in the wall, setting the fire alarms screaming. Nurses and doctors raced out of the rooms…
Oh, For the Beauty of The Flowers

by THX 0477 9 months ago

From where I lay, though perhaps where I was laid would be more accurate, I could look up and see a flower. Maybe it was a na…
Completely Inhuman

by Reverie 9 months ago
Mole

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

“It’s a method of measurement…” Nicòle shook her head. “It’s all very confusing. It is said that when used properly, one ca…
Scandal Sheet

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

My name is Ellroy J. Highsmith, I edit the tabloid know as the National Inquisitor.

The current crop of Hollywood stars hate…
Francis At Sea

by THX 0477 9 months ago

A Southward breeze crossed the foredeck and left Francis shuddering as he scurried aft. His course zigged and zagged as he ke…
A Quiet Din, A Screaming Hush

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Hushed voices snaked through the old house’s corridors, “Did you hear?” The boy looked to his lady and shook his head makin…
Being and Not Being

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Betrayal can be so powerful. Not as powerful as me. I lay here in the land of white, the realm of the sterile and sanctified;...
A day in the life of the Governator

by YodaOnCrack 9 months ago

Arnold hoisted the pair of two hundred pound dumbbells above his shoulders, chin trembling as he pushed the steel bars upward…
Really Bad Karma

by Three Gryphon[s] 9 months ago

I know I’m weird, okay?
I mean, it’s not your everyday person that has Clausetrophobia, or whatever, right?
What, there’s a l…
An Ironic Fear

by someday_93 9 months ago

Fears. Everyone has them, I suppose. But I was never a cliche. I could sleep without a light, I didn’t mind spiders. I could …
Victoria St. Paul

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

The girl stared strangely up at Adrien, as if she had never seen a man in a hospital before. Greg was just as confused, wavin…
New York here I come 4

by DorianGray 9 months ago

We make love for the last time that night, and for the first time in months it isn’t mechanical. He holds me like he’s afraid…
New York here I come 5

by DorianGray 9 months ago

The next morning Kate drove me to the airport. It had started raining shortly before we left and hadn’t stopped. She spoke ve…
Buisness as usual part 1

by DorianGray 9 months ago

Just because I’m young, doesn’t mean I am stupid

The quote wrapped around Bella’s shiny black coffee cup like a snake. _Ju…
Doublewide Damnation

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Virgil stared down the dirt road. This was the road. It led from their thrice repaired doublewide to the old highway, from …
Blackmail Is My Business

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

I arrived at the Biltmore at 4 am. ,went up to the penthouse, the door was unlocked so I let myself in.
The bedroom was ransa…
This Fall, Only On FOX!

by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

This Fall, only on FOX, it’s…

SHOTGUN WEDDING

Eight dashing bachelors!

One moderately attractive seventeen year-old!

...
The White Order

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

“Why not go after them? The Red Order has been tipped for a while now,” questioned the gangly youth, standing defiantly in hi…
13

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

“Gosh, I have, like, thirteen mosquito bites!”

“Gah! Don’t say that!”

”...What?”

“Th—thirteen...blegh…”

“Thirteen?...
I Cured Myself

by Officially 9 months ago

Ok. It’s funny.

The thing that got me here is the very thing I’m afraid of.

Lyssophobia it’s called.

I always hated it whe…
Even the Voices Have left Me

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

It was dark, I felt claustrophobic. The last thing I remember is the voices in my head, telling me to kill my sister Lolly.

...
Alec and Simone Make Dinner Plans

by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 9 months ago

“Well, Al,” Simone hissed through another wave of pain, “it’s nice to meet you, but us standing around in an alley is not goi…
A Crack in the Wall {a poem}

by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

There’s a crack
in your wall.
A crooked river
branching out,
seeking the ocean’s
solace.

I imagine myself
on a raft,
floatin…
Something Like That

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Streetlights cut cones of light into the morning fog along State Route 73. Feeling foggy herself, Geri guided her Volvo, old …
Polyphobia

by Tiggerstripn2 9 months ago

Kate boarded the plane, shoving her bag in the over head. Sat down and called the attendant and ask for a drink.
She took a …
At War with the Clinophobics {Phobia Challenge}

by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

“Flashlight, misting water bottle, and a storybook,” he said. “What else? They don’t fight fair.”

“Do not look in their ey…
Get A Job

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

“You have What??,” said Mr. Givengibbs to his college grad son, Corky.

“Ergophobia,” Corky said in a knows everything way th…
LinoPhobia

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

“When I was seven, I dreamt my closet was full of stringbeans. They enveloped me and I couldn’t breathe. When I was ten…” D…
Fairy Tales Can Come True

by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

Erma Loveless had expected her new employer to be like the fabled Mr. Rochester from the Bronte book Jane Eyre.
She imagined …
Can't Talk to Trees, You and I

by THX 0477 9 months ago

After two days away, I saw the green man today. When I told him that Paul had not been in school since he tripped me, the man…
The Unwelcome Rest of an Endless Night

by uselessness 9 months ago

There they were, all in a row, the empty shells of five human bodies, unconscious, unfeeling, unaware.

Their peacefulness wa…
It's In the Eyes

by Batak Beatrix 9 months ago

“They’re here,” he whispered, his bloodshot eyes darting around the dingy subway station. “They’re among you, all of you.”

T…
homophobia-fear of me

by Sophia D'Soleil 9 months ago
Meanwhile, In A Converted Firehouse In NYC

by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

Big D. roared into the garage and hit the door opener; dismounted, grabbed the plastic bags in two huge fists and went in. Ex…
Diaspora's Leukophobia

by Lone Writer 9 months ago

Someone was waiting for her at Pyle’s Yard.She’d always heard that strange things happened there, but being a person who was …
Coffee Shop

by Robbie 9 months ago

Reminiscing about the younger days whist glancing over the menu, the younger of the two men looked over at the waitress, not …
The Tube

by Robbie 9 months ago

Uneventfully, I get to London Bridge and get on to the tube. I already have my personal stereo on but I pull out my copy of C…
Allodoxaphobia

by Yeah Write! 9 months ago

“Excellent!” read the bright red words on my paper.

Oh! How cruel! How could she? Simply writing “98%” wasn’t enough! She ha…
Dear Gossip Girl: I Wanna Be Generally Unhealthy

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

*Dear Gossip Girl: My husband won’t let me perform my nightly ritual of watching ET with a gallon of rocky road ice cream by …
Coming To Grips {3}

by Yeah Write! 9 months ago

“I-I was r-r-r…?” I stuttered.
“Yes. You were… raped.” the intern said gently. He was seated in the chair across from me …
Aulophobia

by ballroomblitz 9 months ago

Macy was nervous to see her first band performance. It wasn’t that big; it was only a local band. But didn’t know why. She di…
Zemmiphobiac and Company

by Insert Pen Name Here 9 months ago

“Ok, so, let’s have sharing time!” said the cheery young man.
Someone screamed and ran out of the room.
Androphobia, I though…
Disaster in Room 121

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

Immediately, doctors flooded the room, checking every piece of equipment in a frenzy.

“Her heart rate’s almost off the chart…
Prequel

by MisterB 9 months ago

I’m looking down.There’s nothing on this sidewalk in my way, I’m just embarrassed. As I step inside the office I immediately …
We've Been Waiting

by ballroomblitz 9 months ago

“Sam,” a voice called. “We’re coming for you”. Sam ran as fast as he could. But it didn’t matter how fast he ran. He could no…
Oreos, Uncle Gary, And Too Many Questions

by THX 0477 9 months ago

Sam recoiled in what he thought was the direction of the exit. Instead he stumbled backwards over a display of Oreo cookies, ...
Here Goes

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

“I’m not moving this car an inch until you tell me what’s going on!” Mrs. Thompson replied.
“Oh, you see, there really _isn’t…
Confusion

by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

“Who’s there?” Nicòle called into the light. A tall figure revealed himself to them.
“Terribly busy. Terribly busy. Formulat…
Hands

by Ana Cristina 9 months ago

“Your daughter has chirophobia, Mrs. Lang.”

The doctor’s eyes were green. Sincere. Hateful. His hair was just beginning to…
Lost

by Stovohobo 9 months ago

Kate blew off the dust of the faded photograph.

“Look at this…” she said, gesturing at Frederick.

He crawled over and fro…
Mutual Assured Seduction - Part 2

by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 9 months ago

Alec grew bored watching the Pre-Hellenic Heartbreaker and the Soul Sucking Hell-Bitch make sheep’s eyes at each other. He tu…
Alec Meets The Horsemen Again

by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

Alec propped himself up and looked around. Maybe he’d been hurt worse than he thought: what had been a nice, quiet street was…
At Water's Edge

by Laine P. Grey 8 months ago

“Please,” Jonathan pleaded with the tall man, “She can’t breathe down here, like we can.” The man blinked before snapping his…
Something In The Way

by Nick 8 months ago

“That doesn’t make sense,” Simon screamed. “They’re the Four Frakkin Horsemen! How could they not take down a Gorram God?...
So You Want to Be a God?

by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 8 months ago

They would be coming for her soon.

The boy wizard and his ally, the mercenary. The conniving hemophage. The renegades, desti…
The Revolution

by Stovohobo 8 months ago

Everett slung a small pack over his shoulder, gazing into the eyes of the people assembled before him. Fear glowed in their i…
Fears: A True Story

by SKermitgorf 8 months ago

I already wrote a ficlet for the phobia challenge, but that was fiction.
I’m writing of real fears I’ve overcome.
As a little…
Running Scared

by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 8 months ago

Tracer fire lit up the sky. Nearby, men who had died years before were dying again, face down in mud. A woman sobbed as soldi…
Dancing with Death - Installment 7

by metalmarquis 8 months ago
Optophobia

by -PeacockQuill- 8 months ago

It’s nine o’ clock in the morning, but I won’t wake up. Let me be late to school again, let the principal yell at me again, l…
A Nap Before Armageddon

by THX 0477 8 months ago

The pain, it sucks me down, down into the never ending pit of my own stomach. I try to retch their poisons that dull my sense…

artistsrunwild's Favorites

About the author

artistsrunwild's contacts