Ethyachk's Favorites
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Poor Work Ethic - The Quiet Years
by Ron Shakespeare about 1 year ago
And so, the days passed as Jason sat glued to his chair and monitor, stone-faced.
And nobody noticed.
The fact that Jason…
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My superpower sucks
by Jnova about 1 year ago
With the recent wave of people receiving super powers I would like to officially declare that my super power sucks.
My mom g…
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Heart Breaker
by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago
... Stevie, who was annoying before superpowers, and now downright unbearable, decided lunch would be a good time to test out…
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And Back Again
by Nick 10 months ago
Blake started to run after Simon, but stopped abruptly. “Okay, that’s enough,” Blake shouted to Oz. “I’m tired of being in bl…
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Heavenly Procession
by J about 1 year ago
The starry night hangs above me. Trees surround me.
The procession of angels continues, streaking through the stars. The fir…
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Sweet Carolina, Part I
by Scalzi about 1 year ago
First off, know that I hate coffee.
What’s more, I hate what coffee shops have done to coffee. Say what you will about the…
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Too much
by Nathaniel Payne about 1 year ago
It was his eyes that caught me. I wasn’t prepared for them to be open. I glanced away, tapped some functions on the mop droid…
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Autumn (Guardians, Episode 1)
by Coz about 1 year ago
The clouds mirrored my mood. I sat back against the trunk of the old oak my grandfather’s initials were carved into and stare…
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The Light of the Empire part IV
by Harpo Kennedy (the hidden brother) about 1 year ago
Kaijan didn’t need to look back. Klam made enough noise to be heard three time zones away. He’d have to work on that.
Kaijan…
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Unexpected Travels in Time
by Algai 'd' Aman about 1 year ago
Jor was a hunted man.
Short and stocky as he was, he scaled the chain-linked fence faster than he imagined he could. His an…
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The Lawmen of Lake Derry
by RicoLaser about 1 year ago
The Lake Derry Police Department consisted of three men.
The first and most important was Chief Caleb Ridgway, who’d been ch…
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They Call Me God-Killer
by theWallflower about 1 year ago
They call me God-Killer.
In the mountains of the pale sun, where the moons cleave the rocks in twain, flowing avalanche of s…
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The Verse from Hell
by Nick about 1 year ago
“Be straight with me, boy,” snarled Constable Wilhelm Maniculatus. “Didya get a ‘nother letter?”
“Found it this morning,” sq…
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How Not To Be in an Airlock
by Scalzi about 1 year ago
“I still don’t know why you need me in the air lock.”
“It’s like I told you. Something spilled, and we need you to clean it …
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The Positively Prophetic Adventures of Pie
by Elliot Ryan about 1 year ago
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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Drowning
by Kamalani about 1 year ago
In the filter of the rain the knock had sounded like thunder.
I tiptoed to the door. Who was out this storm?
Peeking throug…
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Herald of Doom
by DTT about 1 year ago
He was outside the space station when it happened. Suddenly, it grew dark and he looked up to see a shape passing between the…
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The Diary
by DTT about 1 year ago
It was hard to imagine that this had once been the birthplace of mankind. That this barren dead landscape could ever have bee…
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Global Aurora
by Shawn Powers about 1 year ago
John laughed as he remembered a mere 2 decades ago, when the global concern was a lack of energy, and now the Energy Distri…
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The Down Staircase
by Pat J about 1 year ago
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Time's Ripple Mars Skepticism
by Pockets about 1 year ago
The link loaded into a rather stereotypical Ebay page. Sam winced at the overdone flashing banner ad, and quickly scrolled do…
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Side Effects of Perfection
by Pockets about 1 year ago
The problem was based on the ingenuity of the engineers of the past. John’s grandfather had figured out how to gather energy,...
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The Freemice & the Beast
by Nick about 1 year ago
“Sire, please to stop! You are in charge of the Ripper search? Detective Leucopus, are you not?”
Liam stopped and turned, pr…
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Winning at all cost
by Kevin Devin about 1 year ago
Joel sat silently contemplating his injury. Nobody else was the slightest bit aware of his condition, but he knew this could …
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The Light of the Empire part II
by Nathaniel Payne about 1 year ago
No. Of course no one told the kid anything. He was the Light of the Empire; a sacred and holy embodiment of the waning power …
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The Announcement
by theWallflower about 1 year ago
“What do you think you are you trying to do with this?” she stepped forward. Sam backed away, fearing a knife or gun. Instead…
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Mistakes
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
It didn’t matter.
Not in the great scheme of things, as things went. So what if he’d just broken the heart of the only woman…
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Sadism and Masochism and Explosions, Oh My!
by Pockets about 1 year ago
So Future Sam had apparently delivered a future newspaper to his ex-girlfriend. In order to cause problems for himself. Would…
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Another Monday Morning
by bjciii about 1 year ago
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The Problem with Inertia
by Pockets about 1 year ago
Sam cracked open his eyes. He was still on the same road, and for some reason, lying on the ground to its side. He also had s…
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Failsafe
by Pockets about 1 year ago
John’s grandfather hadn’t thought of the potential consequences of his actions, and neither had his partner, but they’d made …
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It doesn't pay much, but it's a goo job...
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
“Oh. Now that’s just great.”
“I can clean up what’s still in here.”
“It’s spreading?”
“All over the inner door. Kinda sp…
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Through a glass, etc.
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
I finally got out of bed, went into the kitchen to put some food in Eton’s dish to stop her yowling, and padded into the bath…
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Everything but the Box
by User 431 about 1 year ago
I left it beneath the basement stairs after I moved out.
The efficient, quiet movers had packed everything else and loaded …
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Time Keeps on Slippin'
by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago
A few yards up the road Sam noticed a boy no more than 10 years old riding a bicycle with a metal halo on his head.
“Hey ki…
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Inescapable Logic.
by Marc G. about 1 year ago
“The other side of the airlock door?”
“My other side of the airlock door.”
“Why didn’t you mop it up before it got out?”
”...
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Too much?
by StephanieBamBam about 1 year ago
He found that he couldn’t stop writing. Ideas began flowing from him like water, his thinking was all over the map, and ficle…
