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• Sanctuary

  by Colin about 1 year ago

  All I could focus on was the sound of the rain. My head became a battleground for the thunderous thuds that the droplets made…

• They Don't Come Out at Night

  by Wil Wheaton 8 months ago

  You know the well has to be close, but your lantern only makes the fog harder to penetrate.

  You know there’s nothing but ope…

• The Entryway

  by theWallflower 8 months ago

  “Honey,” she says to you. But you already know what she’s going to say. “You have to go.”

  “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” y…

• She Be A Witch

  by SKermitgorf 8 months ago

  Sarah Goode was a good Christian woman of high moral fiber.
  She had six daughters and seven sons. She was beloved by her husb…

• Cedar Street

  by Melia 8 months ago

  She wandered into the bar, disheveled, lost… She stood near the entrance and squinted as she looked around the dim room.

  J…

• Panic

  by Melia 8 months ago

  Afraid to move despite the sharp pain in your ankle, you squeeze your eyes shut and pray that the fog you feared just moments…

• Stone

  by Starwatcher 8 months ago

  You feel a wet pulse of air across your legs, another
  across your back.

  You quiver mindless.

  Shapes flicker in the dark f…

• Shall A Daughter Go? (NaNoWriMo)

  by THX 0477 8 months ago

  Penelope went to bed, but did not, as was her usual custom, don the heavy night dress. She did not tie her auburn hair, the e…

• No Chance to Bleed Anymore

  by Compound Fracture 8 months ago

  Dianne was looking at the slide. “When did this happen?”
  “When did what happen?” asked Leon.
  “When did play-parks get so… b…

• Dust in the Wind

  by Compound Fracture 8 months ago

  Some of the ash fell onto the water and swirled around making complex patterns before returning to its birthplace. A powder r…

• Just Us...

  by Melia 8 months ago

  Eventually we were joined by my bandmates – God I what I wouldn’t give to go back change that moment. If only I had seen the …

• Everything Will Blow Pt. 6

  by Melia 8 months ago

• Green Eyes

  by Tad Winslow 8 months ago

  Just this morning, when the sun first entered the space of darkness that hugged this street, those brightly brushed houses pr…

• She

  by Melia 7 months ago

  She is benediction

  He caught a glimpse of her at the party. She moved with a liquid grace that called to mind a lithe tig…

• Happy frickin' Thanksgiving

  by Melia 7 months ago

  She glanced at the clock and tapped her fingernails nervously on the counter. She was running out of time.

  “Jeeez, how long …

• Snowfall

  by Wil Wheaton 7 months ago

  Nina looked down from the 65th floor. The first snow of the year covered buildings, the walkways connecting them, and the emp…

• The Arina Four

  by MRay 7 months ago

  “It’s for the good of us all…the ceremony…I mean.” Her son said. “A hero is created by others, as a way to reassure thems…

• Everything Will Blow Pt. 10

  by Melia 7 months ago

  “Well, the fights are breaking out left and right between the protestors. The police have called in the riot squad.”

  “Ohhh….

• The Drain

  by Melia 7 months ago

  She stepped into the locker room and wiped her brow with a towel as she glanced around. Alone. Just how she preferred. Her ne…

• To Dance Forever (MBTM's Vampire Challenge)

  by Melia 7 months ago

  In a darkened corner of the hall Alasdair watched her dance. She had such grace… such beauty. Her hair shone like a flame a…

• A Practical Guide to Vampirism: Myths and Misconceptions (2-B)

  by BARomero 7 months ago

  Evan B. (age 23), struggled with this for a year. He was a college senior majoring in education when he was sired. Unable to …

• WWDD?

  by Howie Amourscow 7 months ago

  Sterling leaned against the coffin, staring at the print in the dust, and wondered what he should do.

  He hadn’t been a vampi…

• In a Corner Room

  by Bag of Sand 7 months ago

  The moment was beautiful, at least.

  Her body was dark as framed by the fire place behind her. The fire flicked and popped at…

• The Cleverest Thing Anyone Has Ever Written

  by Ben Paddon 6 months ago

  “This is the cleverest thing anyone has ever written,” beamed Martin, looking at the story he’d just finished writing. He fel…

• Jenny and Elvis Part 1

  by Bag of Sand 6 months ago

  To work here, you have to have a heart of steel.

  Seeing a dog tremble, suffer and go crazy had to take it’s toll. Looking in…

• The Fabrication (Part III)

  by Metaphoric Spurs 6 months ago

  “We’ll skip the stairs,” Joe said. “Just point us to the elevator.”

  “The Chateau does not have lifts,” replied the desk cler…

• 5 Awkward Things to Do or Say Right Before the Lights Go Out

  by Stovohobo 6 months ago

  5. “Ever seen the Silent Hill movies?”

  4. [Acts as if about to throw up]

  3. “I’m actually Michael Jackson in disguise.”

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• Rawhead & Bloodybones (Lyrics Challenge)

  by Melia 5 months ago

  The wild, overgrown grass whipped at her face, stinging as she ran away from the old house. The echo of the song thrummed in …

• Indecent Intent (Melia and Tad Winslow's Collaboration)

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  Mrs. Madsen fetches the paper and greets the traffic of children that jumble by on their way to school.

  Even when it’s cold …

• Indecent Intent 2 (Melia and Tad Winslow's Collaboration)

  by Melia 5 months ago

  The boy swaggers up the sidewalk until he’s just a few feet from her. He looks older up close. She decided it was his eyes th…

• Tad's response to : A Fun But Insane Quiz From Insert Pen Name Here's Very Insane Mind (Hopefully this really really long title will grab your attention: CLICK ON MEEE!!!)

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  1) No tissue box, I use a roll of toilet paper on my desk.

  2) Propped up in my bed on my lap top while a very noisy tv distr…

• Everything Will Blow Pt. 14

  by Melia 5 months ago

  At the heart of this mess, I saw my Steven, lying next to a fence, dazed and bleeding profusely from a wound on his head. He…

• Everything Will Blow Pt. 16

  by Melia 5 months ago

  Someone was leaning over my body, nudging me gently.

  “Hey.” she whispered, close to the ear of my unmoving body. “Hey, are y…

• Coffee is Evil (The Stovohobo Inspirer)

  by Melia 5 months ago

  James’s large frightened eyes traveled slowly around the room. The creatures, some sitting on chairs, others reclining on a s…

• Indecent Intent 3 (Melia and Tad Winslow's Collaboration)

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  The tinge of fear transforms into lust on its way down her spine, collecting behind her belly button like a bath is drawing h…

• Indecent Intent 4 (Melia and Tad Winslow's Collaboration)

  by Melia 5 months ago

  She let the curtain fall back against the glass and stood staring at the garish patterns on the fabric as if after all these …

• My London (Place for a challenge)

  by Melia 5 months ago

  Oh that lovely sharp hiss as the train arrives at Marylebone. I know you’re anxious to get off but do mind the gap at the pla…

• Mr. Nefarious and Sonny Schore

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  Mr. Nefarious wasn’t anywhere to be found. When I arrived at his office door there was a sign taped up that read: Gone Piping…

• Everything Will Blow Pt. 17

  by Melia 5 months ago

  I whirled around to come within inches of Steven’s anguished face. His eyes were rimmed with tears, his face as pale as I’d…

• Everything Will Blow - The End

  by Melia 5 months ago

  I looked at each of them, my best friends… My cloudy eyes delved deep into their eyes. I wanted to speak, to tell them I woul…

• Rise

  by Melia 5 months ago

  He opened his eyes. At least he thought he did. It was so black, it was hard to tell. The air felt stuffy and stale, as if he…

• Fell In Love With the Boy at the Ska Show

  by KasumiRose 5 months ago

  He slipped the checkerboard belt on over his faded jeans and pulled on a white button up. The stereo was blasting Fishbone.
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• Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge

  by Ben Paddon 5 months ago

  Well bugger me. I just noticed I’ve written more than 52 ficlets. This calls for a celebration of sorts – a challenge, perhap…

• The story of Johnny Fox (pt. 1)

  by Bartimaeus 5 months ago

  It was a small western town in the middle of kansas. Nothing big really happened, until he came along.

  The Riddles were a …

• Psychopaths Among Us

  by Melia 5 months ago

  The man sat down on the bench next to David and unfolded his newspaper with a bit of a flourish. Too much flourish if you ask…

• The Bunny and the Bird

  by uselessness 5 months ago

  Little bunny rabbit was talkin’ to a bird
  Said he liked the carrots and asked what he preferred
  In a field of poppies is wher…

• Price of Exploration

  by THX 0477 5 months ago

  “You shouldn’t have been playing in the abandoned house.” That’s what the boy’s parents will probably say to him. It’s what m…

• A Million Fragile Pieces{ AnaChrsitina's Picture Challenge}

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  The curly blonde hair, the clear glassy eyes, the porcelain features. The very thought of that doll made Phineas uneasy.

  He …

• A Godawful Small Affair

  by Wil Wheaton 5 months ago

  “I want to move to Mars, and open up a bar,” Gregor said.

  Matti inhaled deeply, and let a cloud of pale blue smoke surround …

• Too Small A Planet

  by Will Hindmarch 5 months ago

  “There’s still hope,” Matti said. He leaned over the butane bloom at the center of their little cafe table and burned off the…

• Ode To Ziggy Stardust

  by Nouvelle Bardot 5 months ago

  Ziggy, you’re a masterpiece
  Spanning across the galaxy far and wide
  Leaving a smirk from a naughty dream on my sheet
  Your voi…

• Where Have You Been Terrance Filmore?{Melia's Scary Challenge}

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  The Filmores had never believed in zombies, ghosts or the vampire lore. Those were myths and legends. Alien landings were mad…

• Make Me Jump Into the Air

  by Compound Fracture 5 months ago

  “Sometimes,” Gregor mused, “all a guy needs is a little hope, right?”

  “Sure,” replied Matti as he tapped the side of his gla…

• Over the Edge (Melia's Scary Challenge)

  by Barry 5 months ago

  Water. All she could see below her was water.

  Small bits of glass from the windshield chittered out, falling towards the riv…

• High Tide

  by Fyora Cartagan 5 months ago

  Adaime stood in the doorway to the bedroom. In the darkness, she could just faintly see Steve’s chest rhythmically rising and…

• Beheaded [Doll challenge]

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 5 months ago

  She stood there in her lacy nightgown on the edge of the cliff. The sky was dark. Huge black clouds rolled containing a fury …

• The Box [Melia's Scary Challenge]

  by Ana Cristina 5 months ago

  Vashti lay in a box. She was almost completely immobile. Almost. She could wriggle her toes and roll her head from side to si…

• The Suicide Dog

  by Will Hindmarch 5 months ago

  “Sit,” Master had said as he climbed over the balcony railing. “Stay.”

  He was going somewhere. He’d put on his shoes and jac…

• 175th ficlet challenge, woo-hoo.

  by Mask By The Moon 5 months ago

  Awrighty. The place is a bit challenge-deprived, so I’d throw something out.

  Okay. This is my 175th ficlet challenge, and it…

• Driven Down the Aisle

  by uselessness 5 months ago

  She wasn’t exactly a supermodel, but she wasn’t ugly. Thirty pounds overweight with frumpy brown hair in waves like a crook…

• All in Blue

  by [pens&feathers] 5 months ago

  I find it when I’m going through the attic, clearing away the boxes – each one, it seems, holds the contents of a phase, a li…

• Such a Small Thing

  by Ana Cristina 5 months ago

  She wasn’t my favorite student. She wasn’t my least favorite, either. She was just one of the countless children that have pe…

• Sorting Things Out [Thousand Character Challenge]

  by THX 0477 5 months ago

  “Dave. Yo, Dave. Davey? David!”

  “Huh? Oh, sorry. I was…” But David trailed off, his eyes going almost as glassy the eyes o…

• Brothers, Like Snakes (Kermitgorf sequel in Melia's Scary Challenge)

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  Terrance wasn’t blinking. His brother Jimmy took a step
  back as his mother took a step forward. _Is he even
  breathing? He loo…

• The Face (Melia's Scary Challenge)

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  Maria saw the face for the first time while she was leaning out the passenger seat window of Charley’s beaten SUV. It was a d…

• Juice Mug Glug

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  “Mommy, I’m thirsty.” I would pip-squeak upwards to my tall, towering mother. The fridge door would whump open. Glug, glug, g…

• The Superhero Obituaries

  by Hobo Beard Bob 5 months ago

  Philadelphia, PA – Davey Daniels, alter-ego of the 70’s vigilante, Captain Wreckless, died in his home on Thursday, a spokesm…

• Now, when Was the Last Time You've Had a Good 'Ol Stovohobo Challenge?

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  All right, it’s been a long time since I’ve made a challenge. Also, most people reading this are new enough they don’t even r…

• Upon the Window, Finale

  by Valley Fey/Pinprick 5 months ago

  Evelyn shrieked as the claw withdrew, and Penelope clamped her hand over her friend’s mouth. She plucked a book off the shelf…

• Sleeper Number Three

  by Melia 5 months ago

  Tanya was tired. A long night of waiting tables at the diner will do that to a girl. She was at the end of her shift – a doub…

• Six Word Memoirs CHALLENGE

  by Compound Fracture 5 months ago

  Six-word-memoirs Challenge

  37signals (http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/846-six-sells) is running a story about “six word m…

• {Six Word Memoir} What I would be, what I am

  by Fyora Cartagan 5 months ago

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  Female dictator, restrained by a man.

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• The Vampirate (The Pirate Challenge)

  by Melia 4 months ago

  The blindfold was whipped from her eyes and she had to blink several times before her vision cleared. She calmly took in her …

• Before Taking The Ice

  by Bag of Sand 4 months ago

  Gladwell put a gloved hand to his mouth as the rock music rolled behind him. He breathed deep the scent of leather and plasti…

• Life Can Now Begin

  by Tad Winslow 4 months ago

  Life goes on they say. I hate that saying. Maybe because it’s always easiest for the one saying it. The one who has no idea w…

• All in her head...?

  by Melia 4 months ago

  Mary couldn’t sleep. After an hour of twisting about in the sheets in an attempt to get comfortable, she gave up and decided …

• It Was Me

  by flute faerie 4 months ago

  I gazed at where the dreaded cross should be. It was not there. All I saw was a little mound of earth a bit higher than the …

• A Very Good Night

  by Bag of Sand 4 months ago

  “Are you going to finish those.”

  “Help yourself.”

  “So.”

  “So what.”

  “So what do you think of me now that we’ve met in pers…

• From 18 to 1

  by Bag of Sand 4 months ago

  I can’t begin to tell you the anguish you’ve caused me, the nights I’ve spent obsessing over you.

  When I saw you eating in t…

• please, love, please...

  by Bartimaeus 4 months ago

  She smiles softly, I know she must be kind…

  Those eyes of pure intrensic beauty… gazing into mine…

  I can’t help but t…

• Come back to me

  by Melia 4 months ago

  “It’s been a long time. I know I should have come sooner but… well, it’s hard. Too hard. I almost didn’t come today but the…

• Catherine Parr's Triumph

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  Marriage is something I have gotten used to. You might even say I’ve become good at it.

  At 15 I was married to a baron. He d…

• Equal Rights for all Undead

  by Melia 4 months ago

  The protesters began to show up just before the sun set on LesMortes Cemetery. They planted their signs in the grass near the…

• Beginning (From 18 to 1 Challenge)

  by [pens&feathers] 4 months ago

  The sun sets differently in the city. The stars look differently here, too. Farther away and fewer between.

  Here on the roof…

• Resilience (18 to 1 Challenge)

  by `crayola. 4 months ago

  The cold tears stain the fresh pillow, the girls long slender body the is curled in a ball.

  Her heart is cracked, bleeding, ...

• Size 12 1/2

  by Bag of Sand 4 months ago

  The only thing worse than sweating at night was when the dirt stuck to that sweat, creating a fragrance suitable for gagging….

• On Thin Ice

  by YodaOnCrack 4 months ago

  Kuruk had been separated from the rest of the Algonquin tribe while hunting alone. He hadn’t eaten in days, and he knew he wo…

• Critical System Failure

  by Ben Paddon 4 months ago

  “There. It’s taken four hours, but your computer is up and running again like new.”

  “Thank you, Karen.”

  “Oh, and don’t inst…

• The Bizarre Life of CherryPop McGee

  by Melia 4 months ago

  Yes. My actual name is CherryPop. No, I don’t know what the hell my mother was thinking when she named me. I was a bit busy a…

• Ease Up

  by MRay 4 months ago

  Get your fingers off of me. I’m tired of it. Every day you punch me into submission and I’m fed up. Enough is Enough.

  I was …

• From the Case Files of Celeste Bellini, Vampire Psychiatrist: The Liam O'Connor Sessions (Crossover Challenge)

  by BARomero 4 months ago

  “Welcome, Mr. O’Connor. Have a seat?” I indicate the recliner next to my desk, as the patient enters my office.

  “No thanks,”…