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Fritz and Zooey: In Which Zooey Meets the Mysterious Man in the Red Pants

Too confused to make any logical decisions or actions, Zooey blindly made her way into a reasonably crowded coffee shop, sitt…
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Dead Man Walking
“All right, Rivera, just make a clean incision along the left cheekbone…that’s nice,” murmured the doctor to his assistant….
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Fritz and Zooey: In Which Zooey Discovers the Identity of the Guy in the Red Pants

His face was shadowed by the wide brim of his hat that made him appear like a seedy journalist from the fifties.
“Hello, Zoo…
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Inconceivable!

“33089 has escaped,” a heavy Russian growled.
The Warden scowled. “How?” he nearly whispered.
“We really…don’t know,” rep…
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Zombie Mowdown
N555Champ wrote this story, accidentally on Stovohobo’s account at the time.
Stevey’s eyes watered, Greg’s nose crinkled. ...
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Stagecoach

The bounty on my head was placed by a landowner named Precious Comely. That name suited him like a tailored vest. He offered …
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Stained Air

Smoke poured out of the gaping hole in the wall, setting the fire alarms screaming. Nurses and doctors raced out of the rooms…
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Diaspora's Leukophobia

Someone was waiting for her at Pyle’s Yard.She’d always heard that strange things happened there, but being a person who was …
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Fritz and Zooey: The Truth About Reid

Zooey nervously looked around, and returned her gaze to the mysterious stranger. Reid had a pallid complexion, cheekbones suc…
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Nouvelle Bardot's Fritz and Zooey Series Fan Challenge
Okay, so I was going to wait until I had a nice even number to do a challenge…but its been way past a hundred ficlets and I…
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Why Pole Dancing Isn't Funny

Charles giggled to himself. His assistant elbowed him again in the ribs. Apparently he didn’t think giggling during a cultura…
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uselessness's DESPERATE MONOLOGUES Challenge!
It seems like only last week that I was hosting my first Ficlets challenge. Oh wait, it was last week. How quickly the time…
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Fritz and Zooey: Fritz Harrington Must Die

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Isolation [I'm in the Mode for Love Challenge]

“It is time,” she says. Her inflection is for a question, but it’s a statement.
“I’ll help you power down,” I say, my voice …
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S&M Haikus 001
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From Mars to Earth
Eric had been staring at the ceiling ever since he could remember, which wasen’t a very long time. He didnt even remember wak…
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An Apartment Between Them 2

Joe heard Kate gasping as she saw the small dining room table sandwiched in between the kitchen and living room; there was no…
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An Apartment Between Them 3

“Why would we get rid of my couch?” Joe knew, without even seeing his face, that Adam wore that ridiculous sour expression.
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An Apartment Between Them 5

“It doesn’t match the rest of the furniture,” Kate’s exasperation made her whine.
Fight, Joe cheered her, _even if you’re …
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An Apartment Between Them 7

Low blow, Joe thought, jumping again to Kate’s defense. “Any furniture would work. You just can’t find craftsmanship like t…
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An Apartment Between Them 8

“You go around in your fancy clothes,” here Joe looked down at his realtor’s uniform: a pima cotton light green polo shirt, t…
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An Apartment Between Them 9

“What the hell are you talking about?” Adam demanded.
“I’m talking about how absolutely insane it is that some slob like you…
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An Apartment Between Them 12

“Can you imagine waking with that view?” Joe stood by the bay window. A small park was across the street; a baseball field be…
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An Apartment Between Them 13

The doorknob turned and she swung around to face the door so fast that the ponytail landed on the top of her shoulder, cascad…
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Brush With Death (Prequel to Slain)

I stalked into the trashy, garbage dump of a strip club that my friends and I were planning to spend the evening. Reaching in…
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An Apartment Between Them 19 - revised 7/24

“You tricked me!” Maybe it was Joe’s bias, but Adam sounded like a whiny, bratty kid.
“You tricked me!” Kate screamed. “You …
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An Apartment Between Them 22 - revised 8/16

“’Cause you really don’t want to live with me,” Adam was stunned. “There’s no other way you’d just accept that crap from me.”…
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An Apartment Between Them 25 - final chapter - revised 7/28

“Relax, Super Sales Man, I can’t afford the rent,” she laughed. “Strange day,” she sighed. “I’ve never been broken up by real…
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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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On the Way Home
It was well past midnight. We had all of the car windows rolled down, and a balmy summer breeze filtered through my hair. He …
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You are Beautiful
Wednesday mornings in the park are not crowded as a general rule, especially in the middle of October. That’s why I love to g…
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Yoda meets Lincoln (dumbest story eva!!)
At some point before the civil war, Abe Lincoln was walking around. He bumped into a little green… person type thing.
“Who…
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Curtains and Cocktails

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An "Odd Night" in Locust Curve

The setting sun cast its final rays of the day at the thin layer of clouds above the Locust Curve subdivision, painting the s…
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Roadkill
It all ended (more like began) with the screech of tires, the honk of a horn, and the screams of passerbys as the lump of fle…
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Too Many Loose Ends

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Realization

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Mandy

Just as the two of us realized what she had done, Mandy strode proudly in.
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Popular 3

Yet her she was, offering to be my friend, let alone make me popular. “I” She replied, “want to see you shine. In my tender h…
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Popular 10

Melody talked to me the whole way giving me tips on how to act and what to say. I absorbed everything like a sponge. When we …
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Tricky

“Oh, Frank love, how could you doubt me so?” She said, stroking his face with her fingers and pressing her thin body into his…
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Dreaming Tree
Underneath the Dreaming Tree,
We sit in sun’s security
Drenched in Summer’s purple dawn
We listen to the morning’s songIt’s…
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Message in Lipstick

She aimed it at me as she backed toward the door. As Frank got up, he watched what I saw. Mandy took a lipstick tube from so…
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Fritz and Zooey: The Smile

The sun set hours ago, but it was still light near the bay. Zooey sat on the balcony hugging her knees and sniffing the air. ...
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Big Ego, Small Breakfast

I placed my fork down on my plate and watched my ex-bestfriend ramble on about her absurd stories of the people that had run …
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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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Porcelain (a poem)

Inexplicably, I pull away
from life, slowly realizing
my heart, my soul, my whatever
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Wrecked Bathroom (I)

At least that’s what I heard as the left side of my face was flash-burned by the blast. Like when Slain hit me, memory fills …
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You Never Saw the Spring (a poem)

You never saw
the spring that year;
the roses would learn
to bloom in your absence.The sky cried
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Wrecked Bathroom (II)

Black smoke poured through a large hole in the opposite wall. I could sort of hear crackling flames in mono – all I could hea…
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You Had Me at Hello (2)

Although that had seemed to me as a strange encounter, it only took me a matter of days to place the meeting behind me. It al…
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Friends (1)
I walked into the room that I have walked into hundreds of times, but this time it seemed so different. The people in it were…
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Fritz and Zooey: Business Oppourtunity

“Well,” Zooey prodded, “what did you do?”
“Let’s just say, we are now the proud owners of a coffee shop that has been aband…
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Meridian - The Threshold

“Is this some kind of joke?” Jerry asked, walking a circle around the shining, white door. He was suddenly wary of this man, ...
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Seek What is Lost

In the weeks to come, my beautiful muse from the park crossed my mind quite a few times. You see, he’d given me a much needed…
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Fritz and Zooey: Migraine Aura

Zooey and Fritz descended from their creative insanity into the happily lit streets of the night. They walked in silence for …
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Said the Poet, to Herself (a poem)

Reach out and above; go
beyond and deep
inside; stretch and reflect.
Expand and expound. Write
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The castle

The Castle
I set a thickening brick wall, a danger-filled moat, and a locked drawbridge around the castle of my heart. Even …
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C U L8R
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Why them? (3)
Now these men weren’t anyone important. I mean, important yes, but not famous or really well known. They didn’t have much of …
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Life Is The Saddest Song

There are many songs. Slow songs, fast songs, techno songs, punky songs. Every body and every thing has a song. An individual…
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Fritz and Zooey: The Morning After

The phone rang loudly in Zooey’s ear. She blinked up at the ceiling that was illuminated with the bright morning light that c…
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The Other Woman: Part 1b: Jessica

On our two-year anniversary, he brought me back to the same Indian restaurant for supper. My friends had been saying that he …
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The Other Woman: Part 2b: Sheila

“Please visit,” the e-mail read, “Boston is lonely without you. Here’s some pics to help you remember what you’re missing. Ki…
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The Other Woman: Part 3b: James

I’d been in Boston for a conference. They offered food in the hotel, but, Boston on a sunny, warm day? Why be inside? The s…
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Fritz and Zooey: Mr.Williamson Solves the Panda Paradox

Mr. Williamson meowed pathetically in attempts to lure Zooey into feeding him and hopped down from under the bedsheets. The t…
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Fritz and Zooey: Cumming with Cuteness

As Zooey poured Mr. Williamson a saucer full of the Panda condensed milk, she heard the usual sound of Fritz struggling to op…
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Two Weeks

Two weeks, he thought. Two weeks since he had bathed, two weeks since he had eaten anything that he could keep down, and two …
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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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Fritz and Zooey: Beautiful Strangers

“Anyway,” Zooey said ignoring the issue at hand, “Where were you?” She moved to pick up Mr. Williamson, who was absorbed in h…
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A Brief Glimpse Into the Mind of Stovohobo
Hmmm…ok. www.ficlets.com. Click. Sign in… Click.
username: stovohobo4
password: (series of dots)Home. Click.
Oh …
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A Brief Glimpse Into the Mind of Fyora Macragge

Wow, that’s interesting… I bet he could use some of my ideas that I can’t seem to use today.
Write up a note entailing sai…
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A Brief Glimpse into the Mind of BARomero...

It would be so easy.
All I’d have to do is flip that switch. The little yellow light would blink out, and my Wi-Fi antenna w…
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Fritz and Zooey: Fritz Reeves and the Zooellas

Fritz’s once again put on his heart shaped glasses and smiled at Zooey as he began breaking into song before Zooey could try …
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Fritz and Zooey: Janis Used to Drink Here

“Smugglers?” Fritz said disgusted, “No, the term is music hoarder.”
“Okay, I get it,” Zooey said annoyed. Fritz turned the…
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A Brief Glimpse Into The Mind of Partie Like Its 1492

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A Brief Glimpse Into the Mind of Fritz and Zooey

Fritz: What the hell…is that jazz music?
Zooey: _Yeah, its “Jazzhole” by Free the Robots, if you complain, I’ll hand…
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A Brief Glimpse into the Mind of Rockstarjoker

Get to work. Log on to computer. Check out BillHaderonline.com to see if I missed anything last night. I didn’t.
Sign on to…
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A Day in the Life of Stovohobo's Cat

Sunshine.
Blink. Yawn. Get up off the ground. . .Ok, one, two, heave!
Ok. Up. Catlike butt-up-in-the-air stretch.
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A Day in the Life of Nouvelle Bardot's Cat

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Insistance (4)
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Just a dream (6)
I opened my eyes to a bump in the night, and then a quiet knock on my bedroom door. Sweat was pouring from my body, and I cou…
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Fritz and Zooey: Trust-Funders

“Anyway,” Fritz continued, “I managed to contact the author, who coincidentally lives in this very city.”
“And?” Zooey prodd…
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Stones from the Writer's Block

“It was a dark and stormy night.”
Frustrated, Alan threw down his pen and ripped the page out of his notebook. Another worth…
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Fritz and Zooey: Mr. Ziggy Stardust

“Did he say anything remotely interesting?” Zooey asked.
“He just told me an address for one of those packing and mailing jo…
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The Other Woman: Part 6a: Jessica

My cell phone buzzed, playing a snippet of Ani DiFranco’s Adam and Eve. “Just don’t treat me like I am/something that’s hap…
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Fritz and Zooey: Modern Art

“Too bad I missed it then,” Fritz said idly as he stirred his coffee with a spoon. Zooey quickly drained the remnants of her …
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Fritz and Zooey: Tabloid Headlines

Zooey looked back sadly.
“Did you…” she trailed off still searching the crowd.
“Did I what?” Fritz said confused, looking…
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Fritz and Zooey: End of the Game

The halls and stairways of the apartment building became a war zone. Mr. Williamson, thinking he was playing some elaborate g…
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Fritz and Zooey: 5:55

Mr. Williamson made pathetic mewing sounds from underneath his sofa fortress. Zooey tried to coax him out but failed miserabl…
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Fee, Fi, Fo, and Fum

“Oh, Fee, you are so terribly boring,” drawled Fi, taking a long sip of her cigarette.
“Well—Well, you shouldn’t…should…
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Crossing Ficlets #1: Jessica & Zooey

I was on a boardwalk near the Golden Gate bridge. I missed Boston, but loved being far from anything that reminded me of Jame…
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When Caretaker Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody...Alive

Dr. Oblivion had never seen the Caretaker display any emotion, neither in his voice nor face (possibly for the lack of one). ...
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When Eagles Fly

The propellors’ blades drowned out all other sound as the bi-plane made a sweep of the island. Brass Eagle looked back at his…
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Ideas

“Jenny, what’s wrong? Why are you crying? I didn’t think tickling actually hurt or I would’ve stop-” I said, suprising myself…
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The Helicopter

At exactly one-thirty in the afternoon, a helicopter’s blades beat down on Finn and Anonymous on the rooftop. Slowly and deli…
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Fond ,Flames Fond

“I’d like a martini, but don’t shake it too much please, thank you, your a dear”, the tall man in the tuxedo said to the bart…