Elliot Ryan's published ficlets
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Getting Up After The Fall
My father walks with a cane now, after his third stroke in five years. He constantly remarks with a bitter laugh that if the …
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Painting Porcelain Pigs
I painted a pig on Mother’s Day.
It wasn’t a real bovine mind you, it was an acrylic bank in the shape of the _Leaner white …
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Interstellar Draft
“Why do they always faint?”
“It must be your good looks and charm.”
As she regained consciousness, Dawn opened her eyes…
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Life with Kids
Miranda fastened her relatively quiet 2 year old into the car seat as her 6 and 11 year old fought over which one of them wou…
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Caring is our business...
Chris was nervous.
The white Ford van had pulled up to the usual handicapped spot at the apartment complex. He swallowed h…
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Strange Dreams
Slam. Kristen walked from room to room opening every large and small thing that hinged a door before her sister caught her …
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ISD - The Interstellar Digest
_‘Too bad for the humans, if they had gotten over their petty differences regarding war, racism, and global warming, and stop…
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Molasses, not just used for baking anymore...
Mike grabbed the shampoo in his left hand, using it as a microphone for a rather loud and off-key version of _‘Dead or Alive’...
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The Pie Supremacy
“So that’s why you’ve come home with some stranger’s smelly shoes and without dessert for my visiting mother?”
Ken circled …
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The Pie is the Thing
“You’re joking right?” I kept the prize near my chest, facing away from him as he lurked behind me.
“You’re actually going …
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The Positively Prophetic Adventures of Pie
I left the pie on the train, and if you ask me, it was an utter waste of a perfectly good pie.
I boarded in Farmingdale, and…
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An Unreasonable Request IV
Usually when clearfeeds came through our communicators, everyone continued about their business and let the data download f…
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The Space Diaries of Earthborn Maggie
“Tongue Please.” Maggie could program her toothbrush to sound like whomever she wanted, and today it greeted her with the v…
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Supernova
The world will end in 2015, and it will go something like this:
As your wife arrives home in the _‘it was so terribly expens…
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The Toaster Adventures Begin!
The scent of freshly cut lawn wafted through the open windows on what most certainly proclaimed itself as a perfect day.
I …
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An Unreasonable Request III
“What is that supposed to mean?” I grew visibly annoyed with the smile that I had cherished not only minutes before.
“It me…
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A Novel Idea
“It was a dark and stormy nigh….”
James hit the backspace key as he sat in the dark, giving a sardonic laugh to the empty…
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Escape
“Fire!”
Dawn Mitchell ran through the hall screaming, banging on office doors as the smoke filled the corridor. Between yell…
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An Unreasonable Request
Her smile was contagious. I couldn’t help but return the brilliant expression ten fold.
As the hot water drowned her teabag…
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Don't Squeeze the Charmin
In the dark, Suzanne missed the upturned seat of the toilet bowl only to feel the cold porcelain touch her backside.
Cursin…
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