Jnova's Favorites
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Parents Have Closets, Too

Dear Frightened Child,
I had planned on eating you last night. My carving knife was sharpened and my favorite bib was freshl…
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The Plague
I am the last – everybody else is gone. They went badly, bleeding from their eyes and frothing at the mouth. Those horrible, ...
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Aegis Library II

Twelve thousand men, women, and children. The knowledge and experience gathered through twelve thousand lifetimes. Twelve tho…
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The New Odd Couple

I glared at the dashboard. “Jiana, bear in mind that I could flush you out of Sweeper’s systems altogether and pull the hol…
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Superpower Cafeteria Revelation

“Well, I’d like it, I think,” she said. “What’s so terrible about it?“
So the first few days that it happened, when …
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Puddles
No one else could thrill a crowd like Nina.
The crowd exploded into applause and cheers of amazement and delight. The eyes o…
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The Low-Carb Kid Saves The Earth

“The monkeys told me I’d find you here,” said The Zoo Keeper.
The Low-Carb Kid looked up from the recipe book and said, “It …
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Heart Breaker

... Stevie, who was annoying before superpowers, and now downright unbearable, decided lunch would be a good time to test out…
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The First One

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The End of the World, As Told By Joe
IT wasn’t as bad as you’d have thought.
A lot of us went to The Hill. It was a nice place—green grass, a lot of trees. Most…
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Sudden Change

The distortion in the underlying fabric of what humans called “space-time” was beyond their ability to detect, let alone comp…
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Pieces of a man
Once, I was whole.
I was a provider. I loved, I laughed, and I cared.
Once, I was a man.
I go through the motions, as thou…
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Unexpected Travels in Time
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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Be fruitful and multiply - part 2

Mose set off to elevate the bipeds.
It was at that time that John realized that his time machine had further malfunctioned. ...
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Dearly departed Treo

My sweet friend, yours is such a tragic loss. I will miss holding you close, touching your sleek body, hearing your steady vo…
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What Oil?
AM: Fem-parent-alpha-parent?
S: Yes honey?
AM: What Oil?
S: Oil? Wow. I haven’t heard that for a while.
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Empty Switch

So evidently flipping the switch was not among my better list of ideas. Strange, and disobeying the traffic signs had always …
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Through their eye's
Report of a new micro-organism found:
Organism 4569898’s basic function is to consume organic materials, process those, and …
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A Question For Buddha2012

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Buddha2012 responds

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Get Rich Quickly
Hi, My name is Richard Quickly, some people call me Dick.
You may have seen me on those late night infomercials trying to ge…
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Wet, Warm and Furry cont.

“Come along little one, let’s get you out of this rain before you absolutely melt. That’s right, you’ll stay plenty dry in my…
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The Bookwatchers

I was beginning to despair, and I mean really, really become concerned about my future in this library and on this planet and…
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Little flat friend

“Hey buddy”, he said to the nearly flat squirrel, squinting through the haze. “Got a light?”
He chuckled at his own humor, si… -
A Drunken First Attempt at a Wish

“Well… you sure do...” The man struggled, blinking, to focus on the squirrel. “And you’re pretty article… articule… y…
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Kitten Play

My cat was lying on the bed in my room. I had no idea how old she was; she was a fully-grown stray when I got her. One thing …
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Enlightened Perspectives (Marcus' adventures begin)
Marcus struggled to keep from bursting out in laughter . . . blah blah finally he heard what his supervisor was saying. ” . ....
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And suddenly the prophecies continued
I was carried away in the Spirit to a place upon a lofty mountain.
I saw and look! The heavens fled away like a scroll. I h…
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Into Battle

Suddenly Marcus stood amidst a vast battlefield. There were warriors in formation as far as the eye could see. The sight of t…
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We're the Antithesis

He’s always been a punctilious sort of person: precise. Always on time. A place for everything. In his car, he puts his favor…
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Dead Dreams
When I dream I dream of deserts. Dry, dead, wastelands, scuttling beetles scraping on molted gray trees.
When I dream I drea…
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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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Into Battle alt.

Suddenly Marcus stood amidst a vast battlefield. There were warriors in formation as far as the eye could see. The sight of t…
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A Day in the life of Fyora Macragge's Ferret

Big yawn…Look around, “where’s that woman? Oh, sleeping as usual. Let’s see…did she clean my litter box?“
THUMP
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Movie Night
“You thought you could just come in here and take my DVD Player?” . .
Steven noticing his mom on the phone, silently showed …
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superseded nastolgia 1
the fresh smell of a brand new baby,
blurry eyed and open mind to a wide world of “everything is amazing”,
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Thougt crimes
His last 5 ficlets all seemed to be poems, but they just didn’t make sense to him. He pondered a few of the lines:
The span …
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1 minute ficlet . . . my turn?

So I decided to take it a ste49p further and write a one minute ficlet as well. hhhhhhhhhh g it pro ved to be rather difficul…
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A minute of Partysprinkles

One minute? only one? I find time to complain through everything, really.
It’s hot in Los Angeles, the women flock, the men …
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1 Minute Ficlet (Oh me oh my)

I’m curious as to why, when it comes to a writing time limit, the first thing that pops into my head is flying pigs. I imagin…
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One Minute (At 11:11)

So I go to write a Ficlet in one minute, and I look at the clock to time myself, and it’s 11:11. Is it a sign? Perhaps. But m…
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Playing Innocent

I grinned at Julia as she wandered in from her bedroom the next morning. “Morning, sleepyhead.”
“Morning.”
“So what’d you d…
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1 minute ficlet: my own attempt

Once upon a time, there was a great writer, thought the greatest in all the galaxy. Some said he was the son of a Muse. His w…
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Who is She?
Who is she? he wondered for the millionth time as she walked by the Starbucks window, flaming red hair blowing in the breeze….
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Only Makes Me More Hungry

For a while, Aktorius and I acted as if nothing happened. Then again, secrets can be pretty dull if only one other person kno…
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Chains of the Gods

A long time ago, there was a world where humans ruled the earth. They ruled the skies, the trees, the vast oceans, and all th…
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Going Behind

Your mind reels, but there is not time for asking the questions you want answered. Why are you here? How is this possible? Wh…
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Be fruitful and multiply
The council had convened. Stars stretched around them erratically speeding up and slowing down at random (mostly due to some …
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If you want to look for weapons, click here.

You look around you at the clean circle you’ve made in the dusty room. There are a myriad of cabinets and shelves, untouched …