MagicEightBall's published ficlets
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Reasons
I have to admit, I only married her out of a sense of obligation.
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Alphabetical Alliteration
Allen Alfredson, was a brutish bully, constantly conniving and doing dastardly deeds. Each elegant eaglet that flew free from…
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Has it already happened?[Mode For Love Challenge]
Kevin held the receiver in his hand, his palms slick with cold sweat. He looked at the numbers, let his fingers touch, but no…
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The Only Escape is Death [Desperate Monologue Challenge]
I wish I wasn’t here. I just want to go home. God, why can’t they just hurry up.
I know what will happen. Eventually it’ll b…
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[Abstinence] Channel Surfing
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A day in my life (part II) - Autobiography Challenge
Get shoes. Go back upstairs. Put on socks that you forgot when you got dressed.
Go back downstairs. Get shoes (again). Put o…
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A day in my life (part I) - Autobiography Challenge
Alarm goes off. Get up. Look across room at alarm. Lie back down. Go back to sleep.
Wake up (because now the radio is playin…
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A Stranger's Embrace
At first, the hug was tentative, as if I was trying it on for size. She didn’t react in the slightest. I tried a little harde…
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And none of what you hear
He blinked slowly, trying to regain focus. The futility of that particular exercise became immediately apparent. Hauling hard…
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The Room
He sat on the edge of the bed, feet on the floor, head in his hands. He didn’t move much. Just the occasional shuffle of his …
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dark
It’s dark in here. Dark the way I like it. No one can find me here. Here in the dark. I like that no one can find me here in …
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Freedom To Choose
His features went flat and cold when he got angry. He wasn’t the type to yell and scream, or make a big scene. You knew that …
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Happy Birthday
Thirty-six years Bob had sat in the same place, in the same building, done the same job. Maybe the tools had changed, but the…
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Let me start again
First off, know that I hate tea.
I hate the pretentious, arrogant socialites that hold their pinkies up as they sip from the…
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Oops
He sat, well, not so much sat, as fell into, which was still quite the accomplishment of balance, given that he’d already dra…
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Believe only half of what you see
The first thing that struck him was the air, thick and heavy with cigarette smoke. Through the haze, he could make out the co…
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Double Wide
BillyJack stood next to his doublewide, feet shoulder width apart, one hand on his hip, the other taking aim, as a long hot a…
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