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Creativeness Lives

by User 5504 10 months ago

Maybe….just maybe…..if i sit here and clear my head….could I…..would I…..be just a tad creative. Yes, i think i cou…
BooBooUndo

by l.m.orchard about 1 year ago

NEW! The BooBooUndo Button, just $19949.99 from Cronotron Industries!

They said time travel was impossible, but they never m…
The Protectors of Literacy

by Kevin Lawver 5 months ago

“I think you know why we’re all here…”

“To kick some kitty ass!”, bellowed the large man in the frayed tweed jacket

“Plea…
When You Say Good-Bye, Do I Say Hello?

by emma jo_234 5 months ago

When you say goodbye,
Do I say hello?
When you start to talk fast
Do I speak soft and slow?

When your smile is sunny,
Is min…
A Possible Addiction (Six-Word Memoir)

by Alexa ♥ 5 months ago

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Alexa Speaks at a Meeting

by Alexa ♥ 5 months ago

Hi, I’m a Ficletholic. I’m here because for an hour, I know I won’t check my account for comments or wonder why I didn’t get …
Color My World

by emma jo_234 5 months ago

Now spread out – the pencils
Now twirl – ruby-red
and color it – for
the sky – instead.

Now peer out – the window
stare int…
goodbye

by lena 4 months ago

All of this is pointless.
All of your little lies.
I’m done, I just can’t take the drama anymore.
I was true to you.
Yet stil…
Do you remember... (butterflygirl6106's 200th Ficlet Challenge)

by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 4 months ago

Do you remember that girl?

“What girl?”

The one you were interested in at Abby Junior.

“Again, what girl at Abby Jun…
Dance

by emma jo_234 4 months ago

Dance, beauty -

fling your arms up to the roof of the world -
and your slippered nimble feet, they flash
like mirrors slive…
A Matter Of Perspective

by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 4 months ago

“Master,” Timmins said, somewhat nervously, “I don’t understand.”

“Understand what, my boy?” Mordecai the Red asked, as they…
What's In A Name...

by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 4 months ago

She looked at the screen. “Capital ‘W’ Writer?” she asked. “That’s the best you can do?”

“Hey, it’s my account. If you get o…
Her Story (64 Character Challenge)

by .:band baby:. 3 months ago

In the corner she sat, notebook open, and wrote down her story.
A Day of All Days

by emma jo_234 3 months ago

Today is the day.

Whole lives will be changed. The battle with my sworn enemy will determine my country’s fate. “Victory!” ...
And the Kitties Danced the Night Away

by Stovohobo 3 months ago

Their feet stomped vaguely familiar waltz patterns on the glossy floor, wheeling and pirouetting with their partners.

“Let u…
Not the Worlds Greatest Writer { A Conversation with myself}

by SKermitgorf 3 months ago

You’re not the worlds greatest writer you know.
I’m aware of that, I never said I was, that we are I mean.

_Just saying, s…
A Brief Bout of Multiple Personality Disorder Forces Stovohobo Into Writing This Rather Boring and Drab Ficlet for an Exceedingly More Creative Challenge

by Stovohobo 3 months ago

Your life sucks.

Um…excuse me?

Well, fine… our life sucks.

And, uh, why would you say that?

_Oh, c’mon. You stare a…
Arguing With Myself (props to Jeff Dunham for that title)=]

by One Time, One Chance 3 months ago

You’re horrible.

Well. So what?! That means your horrible too.

He believes it, though.

We’ll tell him.

_Really. When….
Message

by One Time, One Chance 3 months ago

I need to write
To help me breathe
You’d never tell
From my expressions.

Tough and suffer
Or suffer tough
But perhaps I’m
Hu…
On Growing Up

by emma jo_234 3 months ago

Growing up.

Someone please tell me what it means to grow up. How is it different from growing down? Out? In? Sideways?

S…
the beginning of food

by Emilyisme19658 3 months ago

she is born
unknowing

they feed her
keep her healthy

but not for her sake
they must keep her alive

she is taken from her …
The Flying Lie

by Will Hindmarch 3 months ago

“You know why flying cars sell so great?”

“Why is that?”

“I’ll tell you,” he says with that used-car-salesman tone that imp…
The Office Pirate

by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago

I am the office pirate. I gleefully plunder your org chart, freeing your peons, drudges and cogs and turn them into pirates l…