Fyora Cartagan's published ficlets
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Like Apples and Oranges
“I’m back” called Steve, as he walked in the door balancing three paper bags precariously on his arms. “I got the groceries.”...
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Sky Cow
[It’s things like this that make me wonder if someone’s slipping hallucinogens into my breakfast cereal.]
Skycow:
A fleet o…
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A Series of Unlikely Events
A woman suddenly fell from the sky, crashing onto the sidewalk directly outside the cafe. Neither Clicker or Lighter was star…
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Selling Your Passion.
“But we do not sell our wives in the modern age.”
“Oh no, you do vurse, much vurse. You sell your passion.
The man, ‘is p…
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The Two Unhappily Married Men
Money is the vurst thing that could ‘ave ‘appened to man, akin to speaking vun langvage und building the Tower of Babel.
Do …
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'Appiness
Ven vill these people learn?
Money isn’t everything. Money cannot buy, nor even rent ‘appiness, not true ‘appiness.
What mo…
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Fyora's Orphanage 4 (More of My Babies)
Scrumulus J. Caen (6101 – 14116) This is one of my favorite series. It hinges on an old beachcomber who found a pair of sho…
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Fyora's Orphanage 3 (My Babies)
These two are my favorites. I’m almost afraid to let anyone else try them.
Lanceus, the Prophet of Kencii (6347 – 8066) ...
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Fyora's Orphanage 2 (Mature)
Big Love for Ero – Jukebox Ero (13579 -15228) Inspired by the song “Jukebox Hero,” which was playing in a commercial when I…
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Fyora's Orphanage 1 (Caution: Mostly Teenagers)
Savra (5991 – 6203) : This series was based on a fictional imagination of myself, what I had imagined was happening is she’…
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Substandard Seating
Daniel sighed as he read the paper. Why had he even bothered? He should’ve known she would respond that way, everyone else di…
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Sharp & Certain
Dear Conflicted:
Are you pulling my leg? Yanking my chain? Or any other colloquialism involving tugging anything of mine in …
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Dazed & Conflicted
Dear Mandy:
Three years ago, my father was in a terrible car accident. He was in a coma for a year, and has suffered amnesia…
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Not Much Longer Now
Two months. Two months until her birthday, and hopefully not much more until he was here.
But two months can seem like an et…
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Begging for Inspiration
“This is just begging to be used in a story!!” I groaned to myself. “Why can’t I get any inspiration???”
Today, I learned so…
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I Could Be
I hate her. I loved her once, but she has become what she herself hated.
How does she expect me to continue to love her when…
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Of Swine and Men
“That chauvinistic PIG!!!” ranted Adaime back at home, pacing in the living room. “Here I am with a doctoral degree and all…
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Of the Masculine Persuasion
As Adaime walked to return to her car, where Steve should have been waiting, he walked past her, not saying a word as he did….
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Disbelief
“We gotta fill those sand bags, people! GO! GO! GO!” shouted the chunky man in the construction worker-esque getup.
“Mr. Kir…
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{Six Word Memoir} What I would be, what I am
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...Female dictator, restrained by a man.
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