Lee Braiden's published ficlets
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Random Quiz answers
1. Have you ever dressed up as a member of the opposite gender for halloween?
Nope.
*2. Have you ever dropped something o…
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Priorities
He peered down the road into the darkness, past the horizon, imagining the rest of the journey home. He thought of the two-ho…
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Hearts in Darkness
Some say that none of us are innocent,
That we’ve all had our pains
That the best tears are for others
That no one will die … -
The Moominator
She squared up to me, fearless as anything. I tried not to give ground. The vital heaving of her chest manifested in hot brea…
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Those Loving Irish Waters
Immediately, I was sucked down into that cold, violent underworld. Smokey torrents of black water and white foam carried me d…
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Cassie
She was always doing things like that: writing stories, and denying she’d done it; singing songs, and claiming to only hum a …
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Within Reach
“Ahh, you did it that time, didn’t you Aery? What did you see?” Her grandmother was so excited that she could hardly contain …
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Some other time [Deja Vu]
I staggered in anyway. What’s a broken down old building between friends?
Somehow, I knew this place: the pattern of bricks …
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Bugs! (Invisible Challenge)
They droned through the sky, rising and falling to their own unknowable plan. I stared intently, stunned by glossy reds and b…
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Bugs!
They droned through the sky, rising and falling to their own unknowable plan. I stared intently, stunned by glossy reds and b…
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Tears
Tears! How embarrassing.
When faced with such pain
One’s way should flow. -
Alien
“Why they called themselves Herminerm or whatever, I don’t know. Stupid aliens.” Annie slammed the tome down on her bureau….
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Contracted Horizons
But I can’t help feeling
That the world
IsPushing in. Is it supposed to?
The wide blue sky wants
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Prequel... randomised
This is just to say
You have written in crayon
All over my world
My walls were built
With footholds for you.
Blank to al…
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Inside a head
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Metamorphosis
The more he tried to fight the vision, the more he realised it was inescapable. As he fought to keep his eyes open, haunting …
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Threats
She looked Koth in the eye, forcing the words to penetrate. “For the few who do become adepts, there is a code to uphold, whi…
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None too nice
Most of the table sniggered, roused by the enthusiastic delivery of Koth’s insult, if not by agreement with it. He continued …
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Contention
The six archmages sat further away, behind a symbolic partition rail that was enforced by respect and concern for one’s perso…
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Peons and Masters
Next came the students like Arhan, of which there were now ninety-six, laid out in thirteen tables, eight students to each. A…
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