Kamalani's Favorites
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The Janitor of Souls
by PixelFish about 1 year ago
Jake Laments was born on a Thursday morning in the Powell Street MUNI station. His panting mother clutched the hands of two h…
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Freakin' Lasers!
by Jnova about 1 year ago
I may not be a spring pup anymore but I’ll tell ya… I like this whole super power business that’s been going on.
At first…
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Life as an Air Mattress
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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Pneumatic
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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The Girl With Wings
by Kele Ana about 1 year ago
Cassandra knew that once people found out about her abnormalty everything would be corrupt. School was coming nearer and she …
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Her Last Bad Boy (1)
by Podge Dirkins about 1 year ago
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Her Last Bad Boy (2)
by Podge Dirkins about 1 year ago
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He Might Be a Bad Boy, But He's a Hell of a Man
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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I found a treasure map
by Kele Ana about 1 year ago
I stared out the window of the dingy classroom while the teacher called out names. Countless times I had stared out this wind…
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Bad Boys Make Bad Girls
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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Dinner died a long time ago
by Kele Ana about 1 year ago
“So what do we do now?”
“I don’t know, throw it out!”
“I can’t, look at it, it’s coming toward me with it’s teeth bared.”
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Bad Boys Make Bad Girls
by zeri about 1 year ago
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Bad Boy in Sheep's Clothing
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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Talbot Regards the Reboot at the End of the World
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Well, we’re all here. Crazy, huh?
I’m enjoying the ectosun with forty billion of my best friends when there’s another flash….
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Her Last Bad Boy (3)
by Podge Dirkins about 1 year ago
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Bad Girls Don't Go Anywhere
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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Bad Boy in Sheep's Clothing (2)
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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Bad Girl Meets Not Much Better Girl
by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago
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Schroedinger's Husband
by PixelFish about 1 year ago
She helped me up, one-handed, still holding the cat. “You okay?”
“Yeah, yeah, just give me a moment,” I said, and leaned on …
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Whistbone's Chase
by Rachel Swirsky about 1 year ago
In the back of her sleigh, Shoal shifted in her bundled furs. She scanned the ground for signs of pursuit, but the snow was d…
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My Way Out
by Rachel Swirsky about 1 year ago
I hate my mother.
Cold out. I throw on my ski jacket. Ugly red thing, but it’s warm. I need warm. I’m not going to be stupid…
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Or The Way In
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
I waited in the snow, in the middle of the clearing. Amusing myself by stamping in a small circle, packing the snow down. Ice…
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Falling Further In
by Rachel Swirsky about 1 year ago
At dusk, I arrived at the lake. Children skated figure eights, mothers standing on the side lines.
One button push, and the…
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No Turning Back
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
“She’s a good kid.”
The woman’s voice, as toneless and cold as a snow drift, caught me unaware. If it surprised father he di…
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Were-bie?
by kwatz about 1 year ago
“I just saw a werewolf bite a zombie.”
“What did you say?”
“Outside, just now. Werewolf bit a zombie.”
“Right.”
“Seriousl…
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A Girl Called Jack
by W.J. Kocik, Jr. about 1 year ago
This much I know: I was six years old the day I murdered my infant brother. Most of the rest is a haze of smeared memories; d…
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Writing in the Digital Age
by uselessness about 1 year ago
1,025 characters.
1,025 characters!
What am I to do?
Let’s… revise.
Aha, it says “large.” Well that’s extraneous. Backs…
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The Glory of Nothing
by Zenist about 1 year ago
The Great Hand of God plucked me right out of my seat. It grappled me near my neck and lifted me higher, into the ether. From…
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The Kiss
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
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Waking The Dead
by Kenney Boy about 1 year ago
The morning found her trying to convince a dead man to wake up.
He wasn’t dead when he had arrived that previous evening. No…
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Reunion
by uselessness about 1 year ago
What does it take to live The Good Life?
The red roses wither, the fresh paint fades, the beautiful new dress is gnawed thre…
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The Time Traveler in Trouble
by uselessness about 1 year ago
The time traveler kept the best secrets, because no one knew he was a time traveler. Everyone just thought he was an overpaid…
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The Flower
by horrorfan13 about 1 year ago
One lone, dew-dropped flower was all that was left. All that was left of her. All that was left of his desires and his hopes….
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Time Travel Terminal (CLFM 24)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
After the rockets launched I saw a young man, pale faced, standing to one side watching it all. I could see a blue aura aroun…
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Blood Lead
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
Shoal slipped the furs off as she got out of the sleigh, and drew her pistol to load it. Her gloved fingers fumbled with the …
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Pop!
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
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The Mystery Of 28 Yellow Shoes
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
There was a thicket of trees in the subdivision. When I was 13 and Lucas was 11, it seemed like a forest. Looking back, on it…
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The Cart
by horrorfan13 about 1 year ago
Here I sit. Alone. Abandoned. Wearing away to nothing. How could it end like this? How did I even make it to here, this sand-...
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Trippin'
by horrorfan13 about 1 year ago
As he lay, basking, in post-coital bliss, a strange thing began to happen. Lights began to appear out of nowhere, flickering …
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'Nam
by Uncle Sam about 1 year ago
They were coming. He could barely see them, but they were there, skimming the treetops. Escape. The soldier on front of me sc…
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Toaster Adventures Continued
by User 2143 about 1 year ago
She is leaning down beside me, the water still running in the kitchen sink. Her hands are soaking wet and wrinkly – little bu…
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Save Point
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
He’d finally found it. The last clue. All he had to do was walk in. And hopefully the answer would be revealed to him. It’s w…
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David's Life
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
I keep a journal, but not like the one Dr. Fletcher had me keeping. Dr. Fletcher was my psychiatrist second semester of fresh…
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The Defender
by YodaOnCrack about 1 year ago
“They shouldn’t have died Commander! Fifty people died today! How many more must die that way?!!” Zakk paced back and forth. ...
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Future History
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
Millions just fell from the sky. The last day any human had in meatspace was darkened by clouds of memory raining down into t…
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Two Definitions
by Pynchon82 about 1 year ago
“There’s no smoking in here,” I said to the stranger as he held his Zippo to the Camel Light that protruded from his lips.
”...
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Ring me on the train
by Markus Prowl about 1 year ago
I guess telephone numbers.
I suppose it was a hobby. An obsession. Harmless fun, and a good ice-breaker.
The train hurd…
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On the Midway
by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago
By the time it was dark enough to light up the midway, he and I each had ten tickets left. His were bent and sweaty – he had …
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The Midway Scandal
by Kele Ana about 1 year ago
The cart shifted again, jerking me away from Travis. I closed my eyes shut, the fear of heights creeping up on me. Then I fel…
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It's Yet
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
“Hang on! Don’t!”
“What?”
“Stand here while I stand by the window.”
“Why am I doing this?”
“Okay. Notice anything?”
“The…
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Teh Stoopid Idear
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
What a stupid idea he’d had. But once he’d had it, he couldn’t get rid of it. He’d get out of bed in the morning: there it wa…
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Hidden... In... The Shadows!
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
“Well, at least there aren’t any ghosts.”
“You know what would be funny? It would be funny if we were ghosts. Ow! What the…
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The Dark Mage
by Kele Ana about 1 year ago
Lost in the darkness of my own home, left to be murdered by the notorious Dark Mage. His eyes, red like fire; his skin, white…
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Waiting
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
Could I stop him, knowing what I knew? No. There was no fatalism here; remember, I am one of the three who has seen The Liste…
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Pencil Unsharpener
by SimplyAri about 1 year ago
Four quick turns and I pull my pencil out of the sharpener. No good. Another two and now my pencil’s gone crooked. What? Qu…
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Shine On...
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
“Ha ha, very funny,” Danny replied.
“I’m serious! This is creepy!”
“The cable just went out. That’s-” Danny’s eyes rolled b…
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Descent
by Lupe The Illegitimate Spanish Hamster about 1 year ago
Though he flew with the countenance of a dragon, his flight left not a sound hanging in the air. Shoal leveled her pistol at …
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Hi, I'm From the Internet
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
“So where are you from?”
“Oh, the internet.”
“Really? Which part?”
“Oh lots of places. I’ve been around since the beginnin…
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Face To Face
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
Shoal inhaled the reek of things dead and rotting. She tried not to gag, but dry-heaved anyway, spitting up bile from her emp…
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How Not To Be A Footnote
by Phil about 1 year ago
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When It Ends For One, It Ends For Both
by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago
“What if I’m not ready?”
“I don’t know. I thought we’d just, you know, stop being married and move on.”
“But, we’ve got the…
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Northbound
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
The dead-engines moaned as the ship sped through the near-night twilit ice field. The captain stood in the bow, shivering in …
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Oddities Playing Ping Pong
by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago
“Come one, come all!! See the depraved deformity, the impossible inhumanity, the real improbability, the disturbed wonder of …
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It's A Long... Way... Down
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
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Your Nation Will Be Next
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
Your nation will be next. All your base are belong to us. They have bugs, you know, hideous things on six legs they put in th…
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When The Cows Came Home
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
Even after someone figured out where it started – a dairy farm in Ohio – nobody could figure out how it went on, spreading fr…
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Two of Me
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
XX: Yeah it is. You’re crazy.
XY: Alright, well I guess if you don’t believe me then I’m just going to go. All I can say is …
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Ficletcentennial
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
This is my one hundredth ficlet.
I have 99 more interesting ficlets that you should go read right now. That is, if you want …
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Confrontation of the Harry Potter-esque
by Saint Chuck about 1 year ago
I walk in my room, lock the door, and turn up my ancient stereo. I observe the results of the confrontation in the mirror. Sl…
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Finishing Touch
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
It was beautiful. The only thing bugging me was that I wanted him to know who did it, but didn’t want the cops to be able to …
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This Dress
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
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It Plays Anyone
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
I brought the player home and hooked it up to my TV set. I tossed the manual aside and looked at the remote. It seemed to hav…
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Played
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
It was warm. I could hear a gentle hum in the background from the player’s electronics. It felt like I was floating; I couldn…
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What Did He Do Last Night?
by Ethyachk about 1 year ago
First of all and certainly most important, I was a man. That was quite the change from the day before. I’d never been a man b…
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Kitten Play
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
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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No World For a Child
by RicoLaser about 1 year ago
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Play Girl
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
The kitten wandered curiously around my apartment, mewing every so often. She clearly didn’t recognize the place—or me. “I gu…
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Be Kind…Rewind
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
“What the hell did you just do!” Julia’s angry voice squawked from the DVD player. “Let me out this instant or—”
I hit “Pa…
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Playing Party
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
On the kitchen table was, of course, a birthday cake with a few lit candles, and a present.
Julia gasped. “Oooh! But—however…
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Playing Catch-Up
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
The next morning, I began the next phase. There had been a number of days where Julia’d had a particularly bad time at work—a…
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Resume from Last Played
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
I held down the fast-forward button as the date in the on-screen display crept onward, back toward the present-day. I stopped…
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In His Image
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
Satan came upon Spam in the Garden.
“It doesn’t look a thing like you,” he said.
“You’re not looking closely enough,” Spam …
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The Gift
by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago
Garret McClean arrived at the crime scene just before midnight, numb to the grisly scene sprawled before him. A man was dead,...
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One Life Lived
by Blackwingbear (a.k.a. Darren Mitton) about 1 year ago
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If you accept your fate and enter the story, click here.
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
You have been invited to stay the weekend at a spooky old mansion built on the side of a hill. It seems like it is never sunn…
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Dinner
by Scimon about 1 year ago
“Where’s the rabbit?”
“What rabbit?”
“The dinner rabbit, the one I got from the butchers this morning. That rabbit.”
“Is it w…
