JLaughter's Favorites
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A Loaded Gun in the Mailbox
In his mailbox there is a hand holding a gun. It’s severed, this hand, just on the elbow side of the wrist, and it has oozed …
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No More Tequila For Me
The sheets, discolored from sweat, clung to him as he tried to escape the spinning room. His arm shackled by the thrashing as…
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Möbius Strip: God is in the TV

The problem, you see, with being a near omnipotent, post singularity, god like being is… BOREDOM. Plain, simple, boredom….
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Sending A Message

“Good evening Mr. Lawson,” the bust of a man spoke to me through the television. “I will assume that you know who I am, or ra…
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The Pillar - Dissapointed Rescue

Commander Stine touched a button on his console. “Captain to C.I.C.” he spoke, and released the button, never taking his eyes…
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Splash One, Actual

Jackson could hear the gun’s whine. He watched as the rounds ripped through the horizontal stab on the right side of the tail…
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The Pillar - A Quiet Conversation

The eyes were glowing. It was a dark, forbidding shade of blue. It was Tom Relk, Commander Stine decided. But he sure as hell…
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Punk rock
We kick our feet with an abandon only reachable through mild uppers and the drive of a pumping bass riff. This is where we wa…
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Möbius Strip: The Many Names of the Maker

“So do you have a name, or do I get to call you God from now on?” quipped Dreanna.
“A name…” He replied almost absentmin…
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Möbius Strip: A Tomb With a View

“What is this place?” Dreanna asked “It’s beautiful. I’ve never seen a city quite like it, the way it was blended into the na…
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The Pillar - Isolation

Stine and his men stood in the airlock, facing the interior door of The Hammer. They had been there for five minutes already …
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The Pillar - Communicate

He could see The Hammer drifting away through the window. His chest was moving. Impossibly breathing. Relk remembered everyth…
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Battling a demon
Cyinn drew his sword, confident and quick. His left arm shifted, hand gripping hard leather, adjusting the tower shield so it…
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She jumped the gun, and he failed to hold her interest
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The Pillar - By a Slim Margin

Salis was in agony. Crumpled in his command chair, he pushed his fists into his temples, trying to squeeze the horrors out of…
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Möbius Strip: Past Imperfect - Part 1

“What’s the last thing you remember?” Eric’s words enveloped Ker and Dreanna like warm red velvet. Soft, hypnotic, almost pal…
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The Pillar - Around The Room

Stine walked out of chaos into controlled chaos. The C.I.C. was loud. Officers were shouting their reports over each other.
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Out-of-Order Challenge - He's No Hero

Niles stood from the table and walked into the tiny kitchen. “It’s a good plan, June. You shouldn’t worry so much.”
“I know….
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Out-of-Order Challenge - Opportunity

My heart was pounding. It thumped in my chest like a jackhammer in slow motion. The stairwell echoed my heavy footsteps as I …
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Out-of-Order Challenge - The Final Check

I sat in the plush leather chair. Johnson only pulled you in his office for two reasons; to promote or to fire.
He didn’t lo…
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A Uniform Not Forgotten
My closet is like most men’s. It is somewhat organized, from formal suits and ties on the right to golf-shirts on the left. S…
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Out-of-Order Challenge - A Bargain at Twice the Price

The crowd was hard to navigate. I had slung the heavy Jansport over my left shoulder and had the duffel in my right hand. It …
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The Pillar - Into The Fold

Tom Relk had not moved from his place on The Pillar’s C.I.C. He simply sat there in silence, staring at the alien vessel stil…
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Drum of War

Blood coursing ever more quickly through his arteries and veins, Admiral Ratliff sifted through the scattered reports trickli…
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Ode to Backspace
My fingers gently caress random letters upon the keyboard for mere seconds. The tactile depression signals the requisite time…
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Möbius Strip: Eye of the Storm

Had it been the nanotech that filled his head or Ancient God that brought him round? Ker really couldn’t tell anymore. At a…
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Möbius Strip: Wake the Princess - Part 2

Ker linked to the engineering console, lowered his internal firewall and the needed wetware uploaded into his embedded nano…
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Möbius Strip: Wake the Princess - Part 3

“Put us in orbit Ker” Eric said.
“Sure. Ava prepare the ship for take off.” He could feel every inch of On Vast Horizon wi…
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Möbius Strip: Crazy on a Ship of Fools

“You want me, to take this ship, in there?” Ker questioned, one eyebrow raised.
“Of course…” Eric replied, his words tra…
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Möbius Strip: Epilogue - Madonna and Child

It was fitting, Eric was the first of his kind to Become and now he was the first to evolve to yet a higher plane of existe…
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Random song that popped into my head. Really sucks, you probably don't want to read it, I just wanted to write it down before I forgot or something.
VERSE 1:
Everytime he tries to pick me up, I let myself fall.
Everytime he tries to hold me up, I crumple.
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On Saturday
$120 for the used Trek 4300 bike.
$130 for new components and accessories.It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than my old bike. Th…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 2

Oddly enough, the real treat in coming to Casa Grande was the men’s restroom. It hadn’t been touched since it was built and w…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 3

Alex instinctively wandered back to the booth that he had been sitting in. It was now occupied by a pretty young woman in hig…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 4

You have completely lost your mind Alex thought as he walked into the news stand. He stopped in front of the large magazi…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 5

Alex wandered down to the central court of the mall and found a seat by the big fountain in the center.
He opened the Omni a…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 8

Alex studied the woman at the Joust machine from afar. No doubt, it was the one from Casa Grande. _Great! I time travel back …
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Alex in Wonderland: Part 9

Amanda and Jessica stepped into the arcade just behind the Rent-a-Cop. “I think I remember him,” Amanda whispered to Jessica….
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The Pillar - A Guided Tour

Relk found himself feeling strangely at home in an alien room.
But the light was different than the Pillar’s. And it didn’t…
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Into Hiding

“What the hell was that?” I spoke aloud to myself, not expecting any reply.
“Stay away from me.” It was the lame goon. In th…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 14

Gotta go. Krystle’s coming. Alex glanced back over his shoulder to see what Jessica was looking at. Apparently Krystle wasn…
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Morphine Drool (Out-of-Order Challenge)

“Just try not to move.” His words made little sense as I drifted in and out of consciousness. “We’re going to take care of yo…
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Alex in Wonderland- Part 15

Jessica yanked off her heels and tucked them under her arm, drawing a few disapproving stares from some blue- haired ladies s…
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Alex in Wonderland- Part 24

Though it seemed empty, they still walked in warily. Jessica spotted a row of lockers and went straight for them. “There’s bo…
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 34

“There really isn’t time for this,” White Rabbit said, taking the gold watch from his pocket. In rapid succession it fired …
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REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In

The vehicle accelerated to 200 mph as it entered the NetWay. A blaze of blue lights streaking in the rain.
It linked with th…
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REACTr: Welcome to the Freak Show

Nick could’ve killed for a Starbucks, but the chances of getting even a cheap cup of synthene was going to be out of the ques…
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REACTr: Put'n the "Dick" in "Detective"

Nick never really knew what it was that Detective Stahl had done to the car, aside from being his normal dick self, but it tr…
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A Date to the Eagle Site
Gerard hit the accelerator, launching off the top of the rise. It took a few seconds before the buggy thumped back to the gro…
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REACTr: The Broken Maiden

As Nick turned the corner, he could see the Miss Motoko looming high above him. Her broken mass was listing hard to port an…
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Darkness Cover Me 3 (Dead Tell Tales Challenge)

“Never you mind that right now,” the old lady led Renee toward one of the older crypts. “Come on now. Hurry.”
Renee stopped,...
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REACTr: Phantom Pain... but it Still Hurts

Nick instinctively massaged his thighs as he spoke with the tech, though it did no good. Throbbing, white hot pain radiated f…
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Broken Window (egnellahC sdrawkcaB)

“I totally had these guys right where I wanted ‘em.” He pushed Vlad to the ground and gave him a kick to the stomach for good…
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The Peasant Part 8

All eyes pointed at me as I ran away to my alley. It was burning. The mob was behind me and I turned the other way. I was cor…
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Stitch in My Side [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

I shoved the gun in my back pocket and ran out of the room without a second look. This was a small condominium with paper-thi…
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The Art of Patience [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

Then I pulled the gun out and aimed it at his heart.
“I want you to apologize for what you did to me. I want you to say you’...
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Precise as Knives [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

“Angela…” he breathed.
I walked into his apartment without saying a word, brushing past him, but careful not to touch him….
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Solution [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

My house looked exactly the same, except for one major difference. There was a FOR SALE sign on the lawn. When I knocked on m…
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Snapped [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

What my mother didn’t understand was that this wasn’t punishment. This was my salvation. I didn’t realize it either at first….
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Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

What is my secret? Only this: my parents had been abusing me ever since I could remember. I was an only child, an “accident,”...
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The First.

From Her Point of View
It was the first of December.
It was the first day of the last twelve days.
Of the world.
Forever.
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Making An Entrance (egnellahC sdrawkcaB)

George waited for the guard to turn back down the hall before running up, snapping his neck in one swift movement. His form h…
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Exposing The Secret (egnellahC sdrawkcaB)

“Hello?” George answered the phone, not recognizing the number.
“Mr. Stephens. This is Yugo Svenson. I’m an assistant of Mrs…
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Petition To Have John Perkins Legally Declared Awesome. Sign It Or Your Cat Will Get Fleas.
Ok you know how sometimes you will be working on a series and noone, i mean noone has yet to say a word, but you do it anyway…
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.357 - The Beginning

Sergeant Cooper Alden sat alone in the office. The sun was beaming evening light through the window from its low perch in the…
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I'd Give My Right Arm To Be Normal
I screamed, justifiably I thought, I was in a lot of pain. My right arm felt like it had been drenched in acid and then been …
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.375 - Breaking the Bad News

Cooper’s cell rang just as he turned the ignition.
Emma.
“Alden.” he said into the mouthpiece, dropping the Crown Vic into …
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Jenny and The Cookies
Once upon a time there was a little girl name Jenny. She was completely innocent; the kind of girl would never hurt a fly. Bu…
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Myra Part 4

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VHS - Wonderful World of Ficlets Challenge

Somewhere in my imagination, there is this video tape. It’s a regular black VHS tape, with a label that reads quite simply: *...
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The Pillar - The Next Move

“You did well today, Commander.” Captain Salis said, gingerly settling into his office chair.
Commander Stine was standing i…
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The Fun Way To Hell
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty

The phone call was an unwelcome interruption. Paul reluctantly raised his head, his sight partially obscured by one very lacy…
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Perkins Always Dies Twice or Kevin Lawver must die.

Elsha’s thought drifted to the first time John Perkins had been killed back in aught 8 when he was just a homeless bum living…
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Ficlets Island [Wonderful World o Ficlets Challenge]

Sung in the style of Gilligan’s Island
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a wonderful site.
It started … -
Minotaur

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.357 - Sweet Dreams

“Mommy always shared her water with me, remember Daddy?”
Lexxie had ice cream all over her face. The spoon looked too big in…
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Real Emotion in a Plastic World

“Quiet on the set!” came a loud voice from behind him.
Sam spun on his heel to first position, preparing himself for the sho…