Ficlets

• Home
• Inspiration
• Browse

• Ficlets
• Drafts
• Favorites
• Inspiration
• Comments
• Tags

○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○'s Favorites

• The Dance Changes

  by Officially 9 months ago

  Anson ran another search through the computer, searching for Bruce for the umpteenth time. Where was he?

  Where was he?

  Sh…

• loneliness

  by ○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○ 9 months ago

  i feel alone in this world,
  all by myself.

  maybe it’s just me,
  or maybe, i really am all alone.

  but sometimes, i get this l…

• What's That You Say? Althaiophobia? That Sounds Absurd!

  by artistsrunwild 9 months ago

  I’m afraid, so far, I have been very unlucky in love.
  It’s not that I’m not pretty or that I don’t have a good personality – ...

• For Me There is No End

  by [pens&feathers] 9 months ago

  I don’t want to be around when everyone dies. I don’t want to stand here and watch while everyone burns but me. I don’t want …

• Tough to be "You": A Promise to Myself

  by emma jo_234 9 months ago

  It’s tough to be “you”
  when everyone around you is “them”—

  you’re different—
  you’d gladly walk in public wearing pajamas…

• 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…

• Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Barbie, and..

  by One Time, One Chance 9 months ago

  We all know the stories about Britney Spears, Barbie, and Paris Hilton.

  But what you don’t know is this: the REAL story.

  We…

• Beautiful on the Inside

  by emma jo_234 9 months ago

  You’re an average girl on the outside—
  Prettier than some, uglier than most,

  A better figure than some, worse than others
  Y…

• Stirring Up Trouble

  by One Time, One Chance 9 months ago

  “Anyway guys, this is Kayla.”

  They put out their hands to shake, and they look at me oddly as I just wave to them.

  Just bec…

• 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 …

• !yzarC eM llaC elpoeP emoS

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  .hseehS ?naem I tahw eeS .t’nsi sihT This is backwards. .em ton ,sdrawkcab etirw ohw yeht syawla s’tI ?sdrawkcab etirw I od…

• Unconditional Love

  by Tiggerstripn2 8 months ago

  Her tiny eye’s blink trying to focus.
  Her wrinkled soft pink skin untouched by sunlight.

  Cast into this world without a ca…

• AD 2029: Legacy of Humans

  by Maddawg 8 months ago

  The meteor struck with enough force to destroy all of humanity. All human life disappeared in the giant impact, and in their …

• A Confrontation With The Red

  by artistsrunwild 8 months ago

  I watch as they crowd around. The instruments they use and the struggle she puts up. I discuss her future with the doctor. I …

• When Happiness Walks Out

  by [pens&feathers] 8 months ago

  Faith touches too few, and Sadness sits by too many.

  Blank expression, there’s a man in the corner who’s met Desperation on …

• Remembering Happiness

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 8 months ago

  I sat and studied this photo. I liked it. Not just because the color and lighting was phenomenal, but because it was me. Well…

• She and I

  by Stovohobo 8 months ago

  I can hear her sigh softly as she caresses me. I curse myself—how embarrassing it was for me to have such flaky skin, of a…

• Don't Hate Cuz Rap's Better Den Yo Crap! [take tht kermitgorf] PikaPikaPikaPikaPikaPOW Word.

  by One Time, One Chance 8 months ago

  I can’t believe I actually had to bring up iTunes to remember what I had on there.
  I would’ve put Linkin Park as my whole lis…

• 10 songs (Mostly by Fall Out Boy)

  by Three Gryphon[s] 8 months ago

  1. Camisado – Panic! At The Disco
  2. Grand Theft Autumn – Fall Out Boy
  3. Teenagers – My Chemical Romance
  4. Misery Business-...

• This Is Fo All U Hata's Who Is Dissin My List Fo Havin Rap. So Here's The Lyrics To A Hip-Hop Song About Hip-Hop By KJ-52. He Even Agrees With You Guys.

  by One Time, One Chance 8 months ago

  Hey everybody won’t you look at me now,
  I’m on VH1 they got me on the countdown!
  Got a phone call that’s how I found out
  I’m …

• Ghostly Street Art

  by Stovohobo 8 months ago

  “Oh, what a night,” Brian Kay chortled, sprinkling his friends with eroded sediment of Milky Way and Snickers. “I mean, when …

• My 10

  by SocccerISmyLIFE 8 months ago

  Here it goes:

  1. Face Down
  Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
  2. Girlfriend
  Avril Lavigne
  3. Lip Gloss
  Lil Momma
  4. I Miss You
  Avril…

• On Autumn

  by [pens&feathers] 8 months ago

  The air is cool, clean in the wake of rain
  Gray sky hangs too close for comfort
  As the leaves finally reveal to us their true…

• OTOC: Giving Up.

  by One Time, One Chance 8 months ago

  For reasons of which you do NOT need to know, OTOC is officially giving up on the high and mighty challenge of beating Stov…

• First Real Friend.

  by One Time, One Chance 8 months ago

  Somebody actually cares? I think, astounded.

  “Please, come out.” she repeats.

  If it’s a teacher, I swear..

  But thankfu…

• The Tunnel

  by .:band baby:. 8 months ago

  I raced up the stairs, pulling James along. He was really out of it. What is his problem?? I was so hyped on adrenaline I…

• The Funniest Man in the World

  by m8ryx 8 months ago

  One day, The Funniest Man in the World was walking down the street. Everywhere he went, people laughed. The sun was shining. ...

• The Others

  by Tiggerstripn2 8 months ago

  I sat up my hand raced to retrive my flashlight.
  The fog momentarily cleared in front of me;
  what was one is now a pack.
  A…

• Snapshot: Bridget

  by Insert Pen Name Here 8 months ago

  Bridget plopped down on the hidden chair beneath the four-leaf-clover patterned counter and pulled out a battered copy of _De…

• Careful what you ask for {i can't wait 'til freakin' 50 ficlets challenge}

  by Stoner 8 months ago

  “Parus sed Potens,” Sam remarked while holding up a 4-leaf clover.

  Larry peeked over his book, “Come again?”

  “It means ’s…

• What Goes Around Comes Around {Shoulda Coulda Woulda challenge}

  by .:band baby:. 8 months ago

  “Move Stacy! I want those tickets.” Billy said pushing me, like he always does.
  “Ow!” I screamed as I fell on the wet grass y…

• Shamrock Inn {scw(bd)ow challenge}

  by Tiggerstripn2 8 months ago

  Chicago, the “Fall Out Boy’s” concert, Dawn # 1 fan couldn’t wait.
  She bought their ticket’s online but didn’t book a room…

• Life-changing Actions II

  by Pisces Girl 8 months ago

  That day changed my life in many ways. One, I haven’t been picked on anymore. Two, I found the love of my life. His name is …

• Happiness Over [scw(bd)ow's challenge]

  by One Time, One Chance 8 months ago

  I lay down in my room, and begin reading The Wedding Planner’s Daughter. After meerly a few pages of reading, the storyline…

• Poster Girl

  by SKermitgorf 8 months ago

  Jolinda tacked up her new poster of her four favorite guys in the world. Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Andrew Hurley and Joe Tro…

• Band Luck {scw(bd)ow challenge}

  by SupRspi 8 months ago

  ”#&%* off!” I screamed, throwing the tire iron and sucking on my bloody knuckles. The tire iron clanged off the highway and t…

• What's A Minute?

  by someday_93 8 months ago

  What’s a minute, really? In a minute, in sixty seconds, you can ruin my life, or make it whole again. You can rip open wounds…

• Maybe_Miseryx's New Christmas Challenge

  by Maybe_Miseryx 8 months ago

  I’ve got a new challenge for you. It’s not hard, not too hard. the challenge is, you have to write an autobiography ficlet a…

• Adventures in Reading {Shoulda Coulda Woulda Challenge}

  by Jenunique 8 months ago

  The drummer of the band, Fall Out Boy was reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

  This was reading number seven (7…

• "I've come to face myself, in a staring contest in the mirror"...

  by RndDolph 7 months ago

  ...”Where there is more chance of victory, than in a argument with you.”
  

  He stood there staring, reflections of the day …

• My Shoes

  by .:band baby:. 7 months ago

  There they were. I see them. Exactly the pair of shoes I’ve been looking all over town for. I walk towards them casually. Ano…

• Clover High: The Boiler Room

  by Lone Writer 7 months ago

  That was the sound of the cafeteria windows shattering. Students fled screaming in all directions. Snap apparently had a dest…

• Dumb Jocks

  by Phosphate11 7 months ago

  What am I suppose to do in study hall on the first day of school???

  I took my planner and gossip girl book out of my locker…

• Grandmas Love

  by Living In Wonder Land ♠ 7 months ago

  Olivia sat in her grandmas lap as the rocking chair moved the pair back and forth. Her grandmas old hands ran throgh her hair…

• Summerdale at Twilight

  by Maddawg 7 months ago

  I see lost souls in the twilight grasses of Summerdale, Alabama. The clusters of light dot the fields like fireflies, stretch…

• Overdose

  by uselessness 7 months ago

  The rhythm is pounding, pounding, pounding.

  A million writhing bodies, bathed in pulsating greens and purples, move wildly b…

• Nightmare at Sea

  by uselessness 7 months ago

  They say eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.

  And that is where I find myself, cabin boy on a Caribbean voyage t…

• Goin' Out, Goin' Out Tonight

  by THX 0477 7 months ago

  Rolling down Route 7 with the top down Carl and Emmit grinned into the roaring wind. The world was their oyster, the city the…

• My Life in Metaphors

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  My life.

  That’s what the scene reminded me of. A bumpy trail all bathed in blue light from the sky and snow and falling dayt…

• In Loving Memory (My Sister in My Heart)

  by Brebelles 6 months ago

  A Tribute to a Loved One
  Lora Pacheco
  December 11th, 2007
  8:27P.M

  Lora is a close friend, who as of the date & time menti…

• I've Come This Far

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  I’m the sentimental type. I look back and I think and I sigh with regret or peace or sorrow. I look at my life like a play, a…

• The End of Summer

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  The end of summer.

  What a sad thought. All through June and July I’d lolled around the house, gone on lazy bike rides, and…

• Liking What I See

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  “Old-fashioned beauty,” my aunt said.

  I raise an eyebrow loftily and glance in the mirror. My face is round, my skin clear a…

• My Mind, In a Way

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  My mind kind of looked like this place. Angela agreed, when I told her. But she thought my mind would look sunshiney.

  Angela…

• Absolutely Beautiful

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  Nobody likes November. “It’s cold and wet,” Lulu says.
  “It’s dull and it’s freezing. Especially here in Minnesota.”

  I don…

• Who Am I? (Color Challenge)

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  O beautiful, for spacious skies,
  For amber waves of grain.
  For purple mountain majesties,
  Above the fruited plain!

  R…

• Questions for Answers

  by THX 0477 6 months ago

  I’m glad we could sit down and have this talk. I’m worried about you. Life in those teenage years can be rough, and, well, it…

• 5 things I've never told anyone

  by Phosphate11 6 months ago

  What do I keep to myself… why??

  1. I’m more fragile than you think.

  I may hide my feelings, but I cry just like everyone …

• 5 Things I've Never Told Anybody.

  by One Time, One Chance 6 months ago

  1.) I’m deathly afraid of doing something wrong. ex. When I was getting a C in science, my teacher pulled me over and talked …

• Eternal Eclipse

  by Overlooked_Merchandise 6 months ago

  The sky was always gray, nothing but it. Day and night was all the same and I was beggingin to think that it would never come…

• OTOC's 200th Ficlet - Easiest Challenge Ever? Maybe!

  by One Time, One Chance 6 months ago

  Shhhh, yeah you, c’m ‘ere. SHH!!! Nobody can know..

  • yells * THAT I’VE REACHED MY 200TH FICLET!

  So! In honor of my 200 fic…

• Watching her Fly

  by [pens&feathers] 6 months ago

  She wanted to fly.

  And as the lights dim in the packed theater, I watch as she spreads her wings.

  The first few notes fill …

• Ode to Colors

  by emma jo_234 6 months ago

  I sat my sister on my knee
  and she began to sing to me.
  “Emma dear,” she sweetly said,
  “Are you fond of the color red?”

  “Jul…

• 5 Things That You Never Knew About Stovohobo (You Know What? 6 Just for the Sake of Non-Conformity)

  by Stovohobo 6 months ago

  1. I love my friends, but sometimes they can get on my nerves. For example (names are changed. I am Fransisco [cuz it’s an am…

• 5 Things That You Never Knew About Stovohobo (You Know What? 6 Just for the Sake of Non-Conformity) Cont'd

  by Stovohobo 6 months ago

  4. I can’t stand horror movies. I’m fine with getting scared or surprised, but it’s the nightmares and insomnia that might pl…

• 200 posted comments= my first challenge!

  by flute faerie 6 months ago

  Yay! I’ve posted 200 comments! You know what that means right? Challenge! My first challenge! I know most of you are probabl…

• One Life to Live

  by emma jo_234 5 months ago

  No jokes, no threats, no false pretenses
  Just one life to life right here and now
  You’ll wonder why, but don’t you cry
  Just k…

• Why I Even Tried

  by emma jo_234 5 months ago

  Oh, lonely day
  Quiet day
  Some times to myself
  to think and say:

  Now it’s over, now it’s fading
  like the sunset in the dist…

• an inspirational quiz: answerd entirely by Insert Pen Name Here, who rocks.

  by Insert Pen Name Here 5 months ago

  1. “Crank Dat? Excuse me? Ahem: OF COURSE”
  2. Nastiest thing….once when i was bike riding, a bug flew into my mouth and dow…

• Wake Up and Smell Today

  by emma jo_234 5 months ago

  Anger won’t make you see reason
  And Hope doesn’t always fulfill.
  Right now, it’s not Faith’s season
  and hot, wet tears threat…

• When I Wake Up

  by Music-Hearted 5 months ago

  I felt it when he died. I was lying on the road along with the glass and the remains of our rear view mirror. Evan knew he wa…

• The Answers From Me (Howhardlifeis's Challenge)

  by Phosphate11 5 months ago

  1. BLUE!!!
  2. This is so tough. It use to be Gilmore Girls, but that is over now, and I love way too many other shows tha…

• That's your car!?

  by Never Explain 5 months ago

  I packed up, slipped on my jacket, and headed out to wait for Macy.
  I sat on the hard stone rail, and watched crowds of peopl…

• Hot on Cold

  by Never Explain 5 months ago

  SHE LOVES THE WAY THAT I TEASE, I LOVE THE WAY THAT SHE BREATHS!
  I still had the lyrics stuck in my head as we turned a cor…

• An Anonymous Tip

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  Mr. Massegiller stepped out of his office, shined shoes squeaking on the tiles. “Hello, Vera, anything new?” he asked as he g…

• Life Was Normal

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  Life was normal, my love for her was unending. Her red hair and green eyes. How I was lucky enough to have her as my wife, I’...

• She REALLY doesn't like you

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  “Garret! Can you come down here a minute!?” My Mom’s voice rang through the house and up to my room
  “Ok!” I called back as I …

• Stump the Stovo! Answers #1

  by Stovohobo 4 months ago

  Saint chuck: What is the total combined length of all the bridges in Venice?
  Let the total combined length of bridges in Ve…

• Nonconformist Conformity (or, Do You Like My New Tattoo?) [six word challenge]

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 4 months ago

  I’m different.

  Just like everybody else.
  _____

• Stump the Stovo! Answers #3

  by Stovohobo 4 months ago

  Overlooked_Merchandise:
  1.Why can’t us women put on masscara with our mouth closed?

  2. What is the orgin of a waffle?
  ...

• Can You Spot the Hidden Message?

  by .:band baby:. 4 months ago

  so i have finally Reached 150 ficlets =) actually passed it, which would be the thrid time i have passEd the so called ‘Mark….

• My Music

  by I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!! 4 months ago

  I like…..
  1.Fall out boy
  2 . Panic at the disco
  3.The Acacdemy is…
  4Shiny Toy guns
  5 The Red jumpsuit Apparatus
  6 My chem…

• Ficletty Goodness (Or, My Ficlets Journey)

  by [pens&feathers] 4 months ago

  Oh, Ficlets, where to begin?

  I was almost creative one night on the beach. I was trapped inside several dreams – some real, ...

• Never Explain

  by ○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○ 4 months ago

  There will always be the question, Why is ther eveil?, and I’ve heard many answers. But, why is it that you only here about b…

• Quiet

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I silently ate my dinner.
  “Tyler?” My Dad asked. “You seem pretty quiet, did anything happen at school today?”
  _I’m always th…

• Can't Take It Away

  by emma jo_234 4 months ago

  you can take away my riches
  you can take away my pearls
  but no matter how hard you try
  you can’t take away my world.

  ‘cause …

• School

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I woke up to my alarm clock, and pushed the snooze button with expert precision.
  Just five more minutes….
  Fell asleep jus…

• 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…

• kiss

  by The Master of Them that Know 4 months ago

  When I went onto the field someone
  screamed into my ear,
  kicked my shin,
  jumped on my toe,
  after all that for some reason…

• Pens' Ten

  by [pens&feathers] 3 months ago

  My List of Ten Things

  1. Join Habitat for Humanity.

  2. Learn more about Quantum Physics.

  3. Donate blood.

  4. Read as ma…

• Gravitiy

  by Never Explain 3 months ago

  People will never know why I do what I do.

  I don’t do it for the thrills.

  I don’t do it for the money.

  I don’t do it for t…

• 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…

• Oh, Cassie...[apology challenge]

  by someday_93 2 months ago

  This is just to say, I wonder what you would have looked like. You would have been fifteen today, did you know that? No girl …

• Party Plans

  by Overlooked_Merchandise 2 months ago

  “Soooo, does that mean you could come with Scarlet, the boys, and me to a party tomorrow night?” He asked, shaking the hair f…

• Let Him Be Okay

  by emma jo_234 2 months ago

  Dallas didn’t say much, but I knew she was worried.

  Dallas was the strong one, the twin who knew how to cheer me up and cal…

• On Summer

  by [pens&feathers] 2 months ago

  Light piano treads softly
  over the fading remnants
  of our deep summer skies,
  calling us back into
  blue days and purple nights…

• Overlooked_Merchandise's Long and Tiring Day ((Name Challenge))

  by .:band baby:. 2 months ago

  She lays on her bed with her iPod blasting “Our Song” By Taylor Swift and reading the book Twilight for the billionth tim…

• Simple Plan

  by SKermitgorf about 1 month ago

  Jared, carrying his canvas bag, pushes through the bank door, Britney a step behind.
  Jared walks up to the teller, hands her…