roblef's published ficlets
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The End?
I don’t believe anymore. They’ve taken it away from me; faith is a luxury I can no longer afford. From now on, it’s just fact…
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A Quiet No More

He looks at her. Really LOOKS at her, for maybe the first time in ten of the last fourteen years of their marriage. He sees t…
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perspective
How does acting in retaliation solve anything? why is it that you continue to churn the already stirred pot into a fine, self…
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what do we call it?
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the trip
What she wants is a binary choice. An exclusion of all gray areas. A renunciation of the truth.
Either we love one or we lo…
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frubjulous
Nothing worse than a phloore. Honest.
They smell bad, they utter bizarre gobbling noises from somewhere around their top nub…
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Ghost In The Machine, Part 4

The smell made him feel like dry heaving again. It was the smell of dung and death. There were bound to be alligators around…
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Ghost In The Machine, Part 3

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Ghost In The Machine, part 2

“Ted?” Kavin asked.
It took a moment to recognize him, because he wasn’t a he anymore. It was Ted, but not Ted anymore. Kavi…
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Ghost In The Machine, part 1

Kavin burst through the containment field, the hounds on his heels, close behind. They bayed and howled as they smelled his …
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wtf

“Wake up, Cassandra.”
The voice was deep, but neither male nor female. It had a rhythm and cadence far too even to be human….
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charmed, I'm sure

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blurble

I hitched up my mental bootstraps and inched closer to the …thing, I suppose.
I don’t know what made me even try, but I sa…
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blurble
I hitched up my mental bootstraps and inched closer to the …thing, I suppose.
I don’t know what made me even try, but I s…
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ghost in the machine

Kavin burst through the containment field, the hounds on his heels following close behind. They bayed and howled as they smel…
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too many

goddamn thing had too many eyes. and ears. and….teeth.
It was lying on (his…hers…its?) side and looking right at me. ...
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deus ex machina
She edged around the fence, elbows locked, gun pointing directly out from her clenched and sweaty fists.
“Kavin?” she not-q…