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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…

• Prelude to extinction

  by Gnarforama_X 9 months ago

  The raptor woke rapidly as piercing screams rolled through the jungle. He stirred, uncoiling from his shelter, his stomache n…

• Of Monsters And Munckins

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  It occurred to Reinhardt that he could burn the castle down himself. Which would be stupid. Rebuilding was a pain in the ass …

• A Flock Of Geeks

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  Lorencz threw the door wide. “Y-yes, m-master? Is Gwen here?”

  Reinhardt stopped banging his head against the frame and reste…

• Appetizing Argument

  by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago

  “How about if I pretended not to want to be eaten?”

  “Yes, but…what?”

  “You know, a little roleplay? I’m like ‘Oh, noes, a …

• The Black, Black Room

  by uselessness 9 months ago

  Hours. Surely hours have passed.

  I never slept, just kept my eyes trained on the crack under the door, watching the light fa…

• Exits and Entrances

  by Music-Hearted 9 months ago

  It made me so angry sometimes that I could hardly breathe. A few rebellious tears would crawl down my cheeks and I’d wipe the…

• Stalled And Ran

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  We ran out of gas ten miles from town and Coleman pounded the steering column with his fists and screamed blasphemies. I hear…

• First Day of Autumn

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  I survey the lush green landscape, laid out like an overflowing cornucopia. The trees come in blazing shades of auburn and ja…

• Room 121

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  Adrien tugged away from Greg’s grasp, sliding towards room 121’s door for some inexplicable reason. He reached out a hand.

  ”...

• Drug-Induced Ramblings of a Ripped Apprentice

  by Dance With the Devil 9 months ago

• A Bloody Thread of Life

  by artistsrunwild 9 months ago

  And so I sit here twisting a tight black thread onto my finger. The thin line spins around and around my pale flesh, creating…

• Hidden Destruction

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Life is like the thread, you see. Alone and unaffected it is a small and insignificant thing. Wound tightly enough, life infl…

• Ringleader

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  “Please don’t shoot”, the young woman begged.

  Three heavily armed men stood there menacingly looking at her. One giant of a …

• She Obeyed

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  The police and S.W.A.T. were outside the restaurant.

  An amplified voice was heard,” This is the police, we know you’re in th…

• And Then there were Three

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  The giant guy dragged Rachelles’ lifeless body into the restaurants’ spacious kitchen.

  The Elderly man grabbed at his chest….

• The Social Studies Fuhrer

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  “And can any of you ingrates possibly tell me the capital of Turkey, of Old Earth?” she said, thwipping her thin rod against …

• All hail THX 0477!

  by Yeah Write! 9 months ago

  All hail the winner of my{Yeah Write} very first ficlet challenge, THX 0477! THX’s Remember Karen in Wartime was great! It …

• I Let Her Break My Heart{A Lame attempt at poetry/song writing}

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  I let her break my heart again.
  Like she broke it once before.
  I took her back again.
  To break my heart some more.

  A million…

• The Adventures of Click Click Cluck

  by Bigkittyproductions 9 months ago

  Click Click Cluck roamed around the vast savanna. He wasn’t looking for anything, he was just exploring. As Click Click trott…

• An Indiana Farm: 1/25/1978

  by YodaOnCrack 9 months ago

  Robin limped down the wooden staircase in the dark. When she reached the kitchen, she removed the lid of a stainless steel co…

• Just Another Option

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  When praying fails, there’s really only one option left: Panic.

  Now, I don’t say this lightly. Telling someone to panic is …

• Dead Man Walking

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  “All right, Rivera, just make a clean incision along the left cheekbone…that’s nice,” murmured the doctor to his assistant….

• The Decision

  by artistsrunwild 9 months ago

  They have tried before – to hurt me, to take me in. They don’t realise how strong I really am.

  I have been here longer than …

• Zombie Ant

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  They were in the rainforest before they were in Jude, before he went there for the college. Now they were inside his head, th…

• You're Nobody in Hollywood Till Your 1st DUI

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  “It was a routine night in West Hollywood, never a dull moment I tell you. You just never know which celebrity, has been or w…

• Dead is Relative

  by Kevin 9 months ago

  Emilio woke on a gurney in excruciating pain. “Holy Mother of God,” he screamed, clutching his left cheek, which was dripping…

• You Know It's a Good Party When...

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Eyes wide, Malcolm sat on the couch staring at nothing, saying nothing. All around him lay the detritous of yet another fabul…

• Pounding At The Door

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  Reinhardt cursed and fumed. Lorencz was so fired once Reinhardt got up the nerve, and that was ironic, eh? A man who mocked…

• Arrival At The Dark Castle

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  Reinhardt was almost disappointed by the absence of torches and farm implements. The only people at the door were a motley gr…

• Gwen

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  “Nice place,” she added. “I don’t normally LARP, but you could totally do a cool session up here.”

  “Much better than doing i…

• Dork Entries

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  Reinhardt’s brain caught up with what Gwen just said.

  “I’m Lorencz’s boss,” he announced, drawing to his full height with …

• {Hard Work} Blondes Aren't Safe

  by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

  I knew she was happy to be a brunette, but I asked anyway. The world isn’t safe for blondes. But then, blondes aren’t safe fo…

• Mrs. St. Paul

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  The waiting room woman knelt down beside the hospital bed, clutching the frail mother’s hand in hers.

  “Mom,” she sobbed. “I …

• {Pop-Culture Challenge} The Ad Men Attack

  by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

  A muddled group of frustrated, overtired copywriters and a dozen used coffee cups were completely unaware of the beautiful ci…

• Worse Things Than Murder

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  Mrs. Learella Kingston had spent three weeks holed up in a tiny filthy, putrid smelling, bathroom.
  The walls were gritty and …

• Kidnapped

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  It was a chilly morning, Mrs. Learella Kingston took a bite of her onion bagel, put her pink bathrobe on and went out into he…

• Drip..Drip..Drip:My Three Sons

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  Only that one time when the man yelled at her through the door, had Mrs. Learella Kingston heard any sounds from outside the …

• Really Delicious New Dragon Dishes

  by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago

  “But haven’t you heard? The whole roasting thing is so last-century,” the girl said.

  “Is that so,” the dragon asked skeptica…

• Biological Warfare: The Shocking Story of the Dawson Family

  by blueyedwonder 9 months ago

  MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICAN FAMILY DIES OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ATTACK

  2 days ago, the Dawson family was found dead in their house…

• Plaster Rain

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  Greg held Adrien’s shoulder as they progressed down the halls. Adrien glanced over, and shrugged it off. Greg sighed.

  “How a…

• I Am Rage

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  I…am…rage. This mortal dream has begun to bore me. How dare they insult my divinity with the indignity wrought upon what …

• Stained Air

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  Smoke poured out of the gaping hole in the wall, setting the fire alarms screaming. Nurses and doctors raced out of the rooms…

• Writing Notes In the Air

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  The little green man was not in the woods today, and this made me sad. I wanted to tell him about today. Sometimes I do that,...

• The One I Couldn't Control

  by artistsrunwild 9 months ago

  *The sun shines a bright patch onto the floor, upsetting the dust. A bird’s song floats in through the window. The painting o…

• Being and Not Being

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Betrayal can be so powerful. Not as powerful as me. I lay here in the land of white, the realm of the sterile and sanctified;...

• Giggles the Clown was a Mean Drunk

  by YodaOnCrack 9 months ago

  “Man that Giggles was funny as hell, but he sure was a mean drunk,” Sam said.

  “And he knew it too, which is why he dried ou…

• A day in the life of the Governator

  by YodaOnCrack 9 months ago

  Arnold hoisted the pair of two hundred pound dumbbells above his shoulders, chin trembling as he pushed the steel bars upward…

• Really Bad Karma

  by Three Gryphon[s] 9 months ago

  I know I’m weird, okay?
  I mean, it’s not your everyday person that has Clausetrophobia, or whatever, right?
  What, there’s a l…

• An Ironic Fear

  by someday_93 9 months ago

  Fears. Everyone has them, I suppose. But I was never a cliche. I could sleep without a light, I didn’t mind spiders. I could …

• No Ransom

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  Robert pored over the charts again. The sound of the TV made his teeth grind, but he said nothing. He never said anything. Th…

• Homecoming Madness

  by Richard Peck 9 months ago

  AHH!! Time is running out so fast I can smell it! Such a pretty girl won’t be free for long, and the problem is, I don’t want…

• I Cured Myself

  by Officially 9 months ago

  Ok. It’s funny.

  The thing that got me here is the very thing I’m afraid of.

  Lyssophobia it’s called.

  I always hated it whe…

• Something Like That

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Streetlights cut cones of light into the morning fog along State Route 73. Feeling foggy herself, Geri guided her Volvo, old …

• One Boy, One Girl _somethings are better left alone_

  by DorianGray 9 months ago

  She invited him to visit every phone call; every letter; every time she chanced seeing him on holiday. Never once did she fai…

• One boy One Girl 2 _you define me_

  by DorianGray 9 months ago

  He had always been so standoffish, but then again it was what she found so interesting. Who was homecoming King and yet shy a…

• The Ficlet Killer

  by YodaOnCrack 9 months ago

• At War with the Clinophobics {Phobia Challenge}

  by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

  “Flashlight, misting water bottle, and a storybook,” he said. “What else? They don’t fight fair.”

  “Do not look in their ey…

• Get A Job

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  “You have What??,” said Mr. Givengibbs to his college grad son, Corky.

  “Ergophobia,” Corky said in a knows everything way th…

• LinoPhobia

  by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

  “When I was seven, I dreamt my closet was full of stringbeans. They enveloped me and I couldn’t breathe. When I was ten…” D…

• You Killed Her

  by Mask By The Moon 9 months ago

• One Boy One Girl 3 _Artistic hands with a serious manner_

  by DorianGray 9 months ago

  He went by Jon but he had always been a Johnathan. His serious nature had been his most prominent feature next to the bright …

• One Boy One Girl 4 _Just passing through_

  by DorianGray 9 months ago

  She was always told she had such a beautiful name but Allison always thought it was too girly. So she went by Ali until she w…

• Fairy Tales Can Come True

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  Erma Loveless had expected her new employer to be like the fabled Mr. Rochester from the Bronte book Jane Eyre.
  She imagined …

• The Toaster Adventures, Part II

  by Blondefairy1975 about 1 year ago

  The neighbor’s cat came slinking in through the window.
  He jumped straight down on me, sniffed, meowed, and curled up on my s…

• Where On Earth Did the Name Stovohobo Come From?

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  It’s a burning question I’ve been asked many times. People seem to be attached to this particular query, hurling it in forcef…

• Your Mother/Father, Self/Brother Sort of Day

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Erma followed the Baron along richly tapestried halls filled with all manner of precious things. But none could hold her atte…

• Pep Squadder's First Date

  by uselessness 9 months ago

  “You’re a repulsive, irritating, acne-infested snotwipe, Lucius. The parasites that live in the fungus growing on your rash h…

• Can't Talk to Trees, You and I

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  After two days away, I saw the green man today. When I told him that Paul had not been in school since he tripped me, the man…

• Chairs Are Gone, And So Am I

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  The chairs are gone. All the grass as far as the eye can see has gone a muted shade of green, though you only catch glimpses …

• One Boy One Girl 5 _so sick of love songs_

  by DorianGray 9 months ago

  And so it was that one day after nearly two months without communication that Jon received a letter in the mail. The writing …

• Is Insanity a Job Requisite?

  by Batak Beatrix 9 months ago

  “I’m sorry, did you say that you’re pretending to be your now deceased brother?” Erma asked as she skipped to catch up.

  Err…

• The Ficlet Killer ( Victim )

  by Tales From The Script 9 months ago

  I watched him prepare his ritual , as I tried desperately to free my hands.
  _The rope dug into my already bloody rope burned…

• Homecoming Hustle

  by Richard Peck 9 months ago

  Oooo the headaches that come with a highschool romance!

  Well since sept. 30th (the date of “Homecoming Madness”), life has g…

• Homecoming Horror

  by Richard Peck 9 months ago

  yesterday…

  So we talk, about me, about the girl i want to go with, and about the girl who wants to go with me. I hold the …

• The Operative

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  There they were: benches, pigeons, the worn stones of the walk and the miraculous wall. He remembered all things wrong now; t…

• Homecoming Conclusion

  by Richard Peck 9 months ago

  What just happened?!?!?

  It is all such a blur as i sit in the safety of my home, but i think it went like this.

  Putti…

• The Reason Behind One Time, One Chance

  by One Time, One Chance 9 months ago

  Hmm, the story. The story, the story, the story. Well. I’m hungry, I think I’ll just go grab a yogurt and keep you guys waiti…

• Mask By The Moon

  by Mask By The Moon 9 months ago

  Hi, I’m Mask By The Moon.

  Known to several others as MBTM. But Mask By The Moon isn’t just a very catchy nickname that has a…

• Cindy and the Duke

  by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago

  Cindy had thought she was so clever, stealing the magical artifact that was the prize of the Duke’s collection. “Gastronaut’s…

• Kermitgorf: Backstory

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  Kermitgorf, Kermit being the, ‘it’s not easy being green’ star of Sesame Street, the Muppet Show and countless Muppet movies …

• On Being Cryptic

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Ha! A challenge! I never back away from a challenge. Okay, actually I do, or I talk my way out of it. I’m conniving that way….

• Tigger ( May Need Anger Management )

  by Tiggerstripn2 9 months ago

  Having once been a victim of online stalking.
  I don’t want my real name ect…
  splashed across anyone’s screen.
  I hate to …

• The Story behind 'Dreamer' (Yes there actually is one)

  by Dreamer 9 months ago

  ok so most people would think that dreamer is a pretty basic nickname that pretty much anyone can get the meaning of etc’drea…

• someday_93

  by someday_93 9 months ago

  Just ‘cause everyone else is…

  Someday I will think of a better screen name.

  Someday I will be the girl I want to be.
  ...

• Officially

  by Officially 9 months ago

  Ok, honestly this is going to be the worst story that there could be.

  Occasionally I have words that I use more often than n…

• Those Of Us Who Think People Care To Know Where Our Pen Names Came From... A Mischievous Plot Begun By That Squirt, Stovohobo... A Story of Yeah Write And How She Came To Be Yeah Write... A Ficlet of Epic Proportions

  by Yeah Write! 9 months ago

  Before her discovery of weemees from the magical land of weeworld (©, ®, ™, etc.) sponsored by aim (also ©, ®, ™, etc.), the …

• A Visitor to The Red in the Place of White

  by artistsrunwild 9 months ago

  *They sit together, huddled in front of the television. He holds her hand and she rests her head against his chest, listening…

• Dear Gossip Girl: I Wanna Be Generally Unhealthy

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  *Dear Gossip Girl: My husband won’t let me perform my nightly ritual of watching ET with a gallon of rocky road ice cream by …

• Put Up Your Duke

  by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago

  Cindy turned. “By the Cursed Panties of Torajima, what are you doing here?”

  The Duke held up his hand, on which glinted a …

• !yzarC eM llaC elpoeP emoS

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  .hseehS ?naem I tahw eeS .t’nsi sihT This is backwards. .em ton ,sdrawkcab etirw ohw yeht syawla s’tI ?sdrawkcab etirw I od…

• Public Service Announcement: Didaskaleinophobia and the Harmful Effects Your Child Encounters

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  Didaskaleinophobia. Every child in America is affected by this terrible sickness. They go through the pain, every single day,...

• Phosphate...Not a type of fat.

  by Phosphate11 9 months ago

  Do people have a favorite word?

  Phosphate. I use it for everything. Emails, Screen names, Pen Names, and User Names.

  My fri…

• The End of the World, As Told By Joe

  by Jimmy McForum about 1 year ago

  IT wasn’t as bad as you’d have thought.

  A lot of us went to The Hill. It was a nice place—green grass, a lot of trees. Most…

• Bob's friends see the Apocamolypse

  by Ed about 1 year ago

  I gaped at him.

  “What?” he asked.

  “Here we all are? We’re in a friggin’ Waffle House in Charlotte by God North Carolina,” I…

• The True (Albeit Anticlimactic) Story of How [pens&feathers] Got Her Name

  by [pens&feathers] 9 months ago

  So one day, I stumble upon this fabulous website called Ficlets.

  Sign in through AIM. Okay.

  Oh. Insert pen name here.

  Pen…

• The amazing explanation of BetwINeen

  by BetwINeen 9 months ago

  If you looked at my pen name it might seem weird…
  I mean BetwINeen does sound strange unless you really look at it.
  So tak…