-PeacockQuill-'s published ficlets
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Watching from the Window

All she could think was,what horrible people.The came in a big Rolls-Royce that was an ugly display of wealth.The husband w…
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Lonely

She stared out the window. After a hundred years being alone, in this castle, she was finally lonely. The lawn was nothing mo…
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Returned to Life

It was a monster. Mrs. Robbin could think of nothing else that would describe this thing standing before her. She wished to c…
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Diana

She’d expected for them to be somewhere desolate, and scary. But this… this… was familiar. Then she realized where she’d …
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{Genre Ficlet} Drowned Tears

Sara stared off into the lake,throwing a stone into it once in a while.Her eyes were filled with tears,showing you a reflecti…
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Optophobia

It’s nine o’ clock in the morning, but I won’t wake up. Let me be late to school again, let the principal yell at me again, l…
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Hideout

The phone was wrenched from her grip without warning.The boy coughed,attempting to make his voice sound older.
“Pay me one m…
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Phone Call

He dragged her into the house,while Mrs. Robbin thought that she would’ve prefered the usual tourists over this torture.Her c…
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Murderous Look

So calm. It was a welcome change from the usual atmosphere around Mrs.Robbin’s house. The tourists flocking in from all over …
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Lead Cluck is Seen Again

“Um,Mom,I think I need to go inside and sit down.”
“Yeah, we can continue talking there.”
So,with that Becky gently pushed …
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Nymph

“Becky,do you remember the time that I took you to the pool to teach you how to swim?”
“Yeah,but it only lasted like a half …
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Face-to-Face 2

Anne’s sadness turned into annoyance.
“I am your mothe-”
“Oh really? Since when? Were you there when I discovered that a ho…
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Face-to-Face

Becky walked in a blind stupor.She kept going over everything that had happened in the last few days:home invaded by chickens…