Sir Kills-A-Lot's Favorites

  • Simon the Not-So-Intelligent Designer Inspired by text

    The tiny planet spun and spun in front of Simon for quite a few minutes before he realized something.

    “Frak,” he muttered, ”...

  • I Broke the Ficlets!

    I broke the Ficlets.

    Really, it wasn’t my fault. Johnny, he’s our regular techie, well, he says it’s probably something to d…

  • The Departure Inspired by text

    I looked at him, for what felt like the last time. His eyes seemed dull, the color of the green foam on the crest of a low wa…

  • Lost Memories Inspired by a photo

    Simone stares wishfully at the trees towering high above her head. The crunch of leaves and the sweet scent of grass reminds …

  • J459212

    At the heap of clothing, Annie stifled tears. _She cannot possibly have another flower for me, and even if she did, she would…

  • Better Left Forgotten Inspired by text

    I hadn’t seen him in ten years, but that didn’t change anything.
    He was still his bouncy old self, practically hopping to and…

  • Dawn Fast Approaching Inspired by a photo

    The small child, known only as Dawn, clung to the fuzzy rabbit that she had arrived with. She never spoke one word, not even …

  • Le Carnavale Inspired by a photo

    The French carnival packed up their lions, tigers, and bears, but left their merry-go-round. At first, I thought I should run…

  • Better Left Forgotten II Inspired by text

    Just as the door was in reach and my freedom was eminent, I heard the familiar, yet unappealing, call of his voice. There had…

  • Boys, Gotta Love 'Em II Inspired by text

    Not in a million years? I thought about his words later that night as I lay in my bed staring dejectedly up at the ceiling of…

  • Beginning of a New Dawn Inspired by text

    The fuzzy bunny that had arrived with Dawn was by this time tattered and old and Dawn herself had become quite the opposite, ...

  • Better Left Forgotten III Inspired by text

    He went on and on, digging up anecdotes from the past, stories I had long forgotten as the years washed away the trivia I had…

  • Better Left Forgotten V Inspired by text

    I turned right as I exited through the door. My hands grasped firmly at the warm cup between my fingers. I strutted down the …

  • Better Left Forgotten VI Inspired by text

    As I reached him, standing at the old oak, a single question formed on my lips and was blurted out simultaneously. I hadn’t m…

  • Moving Up to Nothing Better Inspired by a photo

    I sat down in my newly aquired, yet filthy, cubical that Darcy had left me with. No amount of cleaning I thought to myself,...

  • Twelve Inch High Underdog

    As a nine year old Jack Russel terrier, George had seen
    many marvelous things in the the New Zealand town of Manaia.
    From ch…

  • Questions, Answers, and Blackmail Inspired by text

    “He said what?”

    “You know how it is. You can’t always expect the ‘perfect’ answer.”

    “Yeah, yeah. I know. But a girl can hop…

  • The Package

    That morning had been cold and foggy, a sign I didn’t quite realize, when the package had arrived. I was only a kid then, and…

  • A creepy poem that is perfect to read at 2 in the morning

    When you look in the mirror am I looking back at you from the shadows of the closet?
    When you see something move out of the c…

  • Gettin' Outta Jail Mature Inspired by text

  • Spare me the Agony of Love

    Me: Okay.
    Him: Okay.
    Me: Fine.
    Him: Fine.
    Me: I hate you.
    Him: I hate you too.
    Me: I hate you more.
    Him: That’s pretty imposs…

  • Separate Opinions Inspired by text

    Exactly. They say we’re all about freedom and liberty and justice, but how is it freedom if we’re not free to choose what we …

  • Beacon of Light

    The land shone grandly in the golden red and orange glow of the sun’s fading light, as it sunk lower into the contrasting hor…

  • Of India and Aladdin

    “A what?”

    “A Ganesh. Bone up our your culture would ya!”

    “Scuse me if I don’t know Indian culture like you do.”

    “You could…

  • Another Place, Another Time

    If there was an answer; he’d find it there. He had to, it was his only clue to the puzzling circumstances surrounding him lik…

  • Tick, Tock

    He just left me standing there, completely engulfed by the room, to watch our time to live tick down on the clock overhead. O…

  • Moonrise Inspired by a photo

    Their hearts blaze like fire
    Their eyes glow like rain
    They understand the feeling
    They understand the pain
    They run along th…

  • In Absentia, part 2 Inspired by text

    Minnaloushe was John’s name for the cat, who he’d always bragged was more canine than feline. Minnaloushe played fetch, loyal…

  • Tick, Tock II Inspired by text

    Thirty seconds. We were the best and the brightest the Earth to Space Aeronautics Program could offer, yet we stood there in …

  • Spare The Humiliation Inspired by text

    It all started upside down. My therapist had said it was the only way to get rid of my depression, so there I was hanging lik…

  • Waste My Life for You

    Some things you are never ready for. A death, a cheating boyfriend, exams. This would be one of those moments.

    “Sari, I love…

  • For Love

    If you slit your wrist and pour me a cup of blood,
    I would drink it all just to taste your love.
    Swallow it down without comp…

  • the meaning of love.

    The meaning of love has changed so much.
    When I was a kid, you said I love you to your parents, family members, and to your s…

  • For She May Fade Away

    He opened his writing journal.

    _Natalie, I have neglected you these past few months. It’s scary to think within that time, ...

  • Follow the Beaten Path

    The old man had told me before I left to follow the beaten path and not to stray, but I wasn’t sure what he meant until I rea…

  • Trappings of the path Inspired by text

    The path was one of rotten tomatoes, ripened cabbage, and wheat. The wheat was beaten down and over time, appeared to be a pa…

  • The key Inspired by text

    I turned around to find the normalcy of behindness. To avail, I turned the sheet around and to my amazement there it was…th…

  • A Load Of Balogna

    “This war is a load of balogna. Can’t you wrap your tiny little brain around that?” Katie was livid. The advisor didn’t care …

  • Follow the Beaten Path II Inspired by text

    It was a sad looking thing, that path. It looked as if it had taken heavy use in the past. But I’d never seen anyone leave th…

  • Sunday is for Sleeping off Hangovers, but the Sun Disagrees

    I wake up slowly, letting the headache wash over me. The ancient blinds let in little shafts of sunlight, making me cringe an…

  • It's A Long... Way... Down Mature Inspired by a photo

  • Beginning At The Beginning Inspired by text

    “What did you just call me?” she shrieked.

    And I said, “Maddy, l-” and I would have said more, but that’s when I bit off my …

  • Desperation Mature

  • insecure Mature

  • The Morning After

    When I woke, the sun was just beginning to infultrate the purple-hued night, slanting narrow sunbeams through the shades in m…

  • Eight Dollars in Cuba Inspired by a photo

    Just two blocks from home, Lazaro collapsed on the street corner. His wife and four children had exhausted their monthly food…

  • Picture Perfect Ending Inspired by a photo

    The smell of blood and smoke was thick in the air. Bodies surrounded me, some friends, others foes. Though they all had the s…

  • Self Knows Self

    I sat at a bus stop a few blocks from my old apartment, waiting. I’d fended off a handful of half-hearted self-assassination …

  • Your Nation Will Be Next Inspired by a photo

    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…

  • Summer Snow Inspired by a photo

    I was mindlessly staring out the window when it started snowing. “The wind is blowing west,” I thought. My brain was numb ‘ro…

  • Mini Creation

    She creates her character starting with the nose, then eye shape and color, and finally the hair. Should she sport blond lock…

  • The Horrible Fate of Vampirism Inspired by a photo

    Who would think that you would miss these things once you could not have them anymore…The taste of a ripe watermelon, juic…

  • The Land Of Light Inspired by a photo

    They say if there were no bad, we would not see the good. If there were no shadows, there would be no sun. No darkness, no li…

  • Letters of the Heart

    My dearest Frank,

    _I have thought long about how I should tell you how this rather glorious thing came to be, but I am unc…

  • Remote Control Inspired by text

    No! Let her stay! Let them stay! It’s not her fault. Ernie’s mouth moved but no sound came out.
    “He’s dumb!” His mother …

  • In Absentia

    John passed out at his desk, slumping over and spilling his coffee with a wide flung hand. Something had given a little pop i…