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• The End

  by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago

  The end of the world was nigh and we all knew it. It wasn’t something we didn’t see coming. They foretold it for years – we’d…

• Pop Culture Challenge: I Can Has Emmy in Box?

  by Fyora Cartagan about 1 year ago

  It was Christmas time and everything was perfect. Jenna was curled up in her husband’s La-Z-Boy recliner. He had insisted she…

• Zombie Ant

  by Howie Amourscow about 1 year 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 Know It's a Good Party When...

  by THX 0477 about 1 year ago

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

• Leeroy Jenkins vs. The Death Star

  by BARomero about 1 year ago

  “The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the star fleet. It’s defenses are designed …

• We Are Here Together [English]

  by artistsrunwild about 1 year ago

  Maybe the world is round.
  Or maybe I am what is round
  Have I already said that to you?
  Am I correct?
  I dont know, no.
  You don…

• New Study: The Effects of Imminent Death on the Female Adolescent Mind

  by Stovohobo about 1 year ago

  I never really saw how beautiful the oaks in our neighborhood were. Not until I was trapped in this car driving off to my doo…

• Theme Song of the Stupid

  by blueyedwonder about 1 year ago

  “1,2,3,4,
  But I can’t count any more.
  5,6,9,10,
  See, I can’t count up till then…
  Oh, you know that I’m smart
  Oh, you know w…

• Oh, For the Beauty of The Flowers

  by THX 0477 about 1 year ago

  From where I lay, though perhaps where I was laid would be more accurate, I could look up and see a flower. Maybe it was a na…

• A Song of Understanding

  by emma jo_234 about 1 year ago

  It’s one of those corny, sappy poetic moments/You have never felt so wrapped in your own existence/So contained in your own…

• Those Red High-Heels

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  I’m not a high-heeled kind of girl.

  Usually I prefer the ever-versatile tennis shoes, canvas so worn in places that it’s an …

• Waves of Dreaming

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  Wake me up from waves of dreaming
  Where I’m stuck inside your mind
  Drifting off in clouds of consciousness
  Afraid that I’ll b…

• What's That You Say? Althaiophobia? That Sounds Absurd!

  by artistsrunwild about 1 year ago

  I’m afraid, so far, I have been very unlucky in love.
  It’s not that I’m not pretty or that I don’t have a good personality – ...

• Butterflies

  by Rainbow Sunshine about 1 year ago

  So graceful when they move
  and colorful to protect
  But even when you wish and try
  You’ll never really fly
  Or will you

• "HeadOn! Apply Directly to the Forehead! HeadOn! Apply Directly to the Freaking Forehead! HeadOn!"

  by Stovohobo about 1 year ago

  “HeadOn! Apply directly to the forehead! HeadOn! Apply directly to the forehead! HeadOn! Apply directly to the forehead! Head…

• This Fall, Only On FOX!

  by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago

  This Fall, only on FOX, it’s…

  SHOTGUN WEDDING

  Eight dashing bachelors!

  One moderately attractive seventeen year-old!

  ...

• Fairy Tales Can Come True

  by SKermitgorf about 1 year ago

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

• Where On Earth Did the Name Stovohobo Come From?

  by Stovohobo about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago

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

• Is Insanity a Job Requisite?

  by Batak Beatrix about 1 year 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…

• A Ridiculously Unplausible Love Story, or Why does His Shirt Keep Coming Off?

  by Insert Pen Name Here about 1 year ago

  A Ridiculously Unplausible Love Story

  Once upon a time, there was a wonderful, beautiful, kind, loving-oh whatever, she was …

• Something Is Missing

  by THX 0477 about 1 year ago

  Something is missing from the human condition. Look around you. See how the people scurry to and fro. Can you sense their urg…

• 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! about 1 year ago

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

• We are the Right Now

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  In the stillness of a summer night, I can’t tell if I’m awake or dreaming.

  Everything around me is coated in a fine layer of…

• To The Radical Pro-Lifers

  by someday_93 about 1 year ago

  Dear Radical Pro-Lifers,

  Why do you have to do this? Why must you show me all these pictures of aborted fetuses, telling me,...

• Dear Gossip Girl: I Wanna Be Generally Unhealthy

  by Stovohobo about 1 year 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 …

• Relative Condition {1}

  by Yeah Write! about 1 year ago

  “You’re awake!” exclaimed the eager young man.He approached and began to question me. He asked me my name, a question to whic…

• Questions. {AGH}

  by Armour Vivant about 1 year ago

  What do you do when the person who meant so much to you for so long starts to drift away? When, after being all you cared abo…

• Aulophobia

  by ballroomblitz about 1 year ago

  Macy was nervous to see her first band performance. It wasn’t that big; it was only a local band. But didn’t know why. She di…

• This X is Impossible

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  go
  read my palm
  please, conjure up the ultimate solution
  to this delicate conundrum

  “you’re a study in contradictions,”
  they…

• Nocturnal Creatures

  by A Joker about 1 year ago

  Robin leapt from building to building. The distress call had come from a location deep in Crime Alley. He had no idea what to…

• Angels and Devils: Bickering Figments of One's Imagination

  by Yeah Write! about 1 year ago

  “Let’s write a ficlet!”
  “No we’re too tired. We should go to sleep.”
  “What? Are you kidding? The night is still young! Let’s …

• A Ridiculously Unplausible Love Story, or Why Does His Shirt Keep Coming Off? Part Five

  by Insert Pen Name Here about 1 year ago

  Guy, who’s shirt had just come off again, fought his way througt the chaos-filled cabin to the pilot door. “Yep,”he said grim…

• Ascension

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  Looking back now, it seems like a dream – hardly tangible, somewhat blurry, and more than slightly askew on the shelf of my m…

• My Life

  by Mk about 1 year ago

  This is my first ficlet, so please bear with me here. Sometimes I struggle to get my words out on paper, but I guess that ju…

• Just Take a Picture

  by Mk about 1 year ago

  Sometimes when I’m walking down the street, or riding in my car, I wish I had my camera. I can already see the picture in my…

• Red Leaves

  by someday_93 about 1 year ago

  When I wake, I move out from under the red tree. I’m going to walk home, walk away from this place, when something stops me.
  ...

• The Red Tree Bleeds Tears

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  I wake with the delicate ache of everything I have seen and heard and felt gripping tightly on my heart. I am sitting on a ge…

• Felicia

  by Ana Cristina about 1 year ago

  Felicia can only remember her past in fragments, brilliant shards of memory that splinter off in her mind and form patterns t…

• Such A Long Time Ago

  by someday_93 about 1 year ago

  The picture has been mounted on my wall for ten years. She would have been fourteen, I think, letting tears fall. Looking a…

• The Insane Knight Pillages a Village part 5

  by Hobo Beard Bob about 1 year ago

  Montelban froze when he saw the dragon sleeping on the hill. He attempted to sneak around the dragon, but it opened its eyes …

• The ghost I'm running from

  by SunEyedGirl about 1 year ago

  No one understands
  So I wont say a word
  And I will pretend
  And I wont sleep
  I wont breathe

  I have such big plans
  They cons…

• Face-to-Face

  by -PeacockQuill- about 1 year ago

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

• Face-to-Face 2

  by -PeacockQuill- about 1 year ago

  Anne’s sadness turned into annoyance.

  “I am your mothe-”

  “Oh really? Since when? Were you there when I discovered that a ho…

• A Ridiculously Unplausible Love Story, or Why Does His Shirt Keep Coming Off? Part Eight

  by Insert Pen Name Here about 1 year ago

  Girl and Guy stood somewhere in Montana, surrounded by trees and snow and trees…and snow…and…um…and trees, and snow…..

• The trains come closer every night

  by alcar 12 months ago

  Every night I hear the trains going by. They used to be a mile away when I was younger, give or take a block: it depends how …

• Tattered Souls

  by Stovohobo 12 months ago

  Everyone, including me, passed by him every day. He would sit there on his grimy blanket, noncommittally stirring the few coi…

• I Miss Yellow

  by THX 0477 12 months ago

  I wake, as usual, to the sound of machinery. The whole place shudders and whines with the generator’s efforts, from the algae…

• Stone

  by SocccerISmyLIFE 11 months ago

  I feel like a stone,
  I sink.
  Nothing breaks me,
  I break other things.
  I hurt people,
  When I don’t mean too.
  But no one hurts …

• Guys Like Joe{OTOC's Challenge}

  by SKermitgorf 11 months ago

  O my god, here he comes, I should never have agreed to be his girlfriend. what was I thinking???

  I know what I was thinkin…

• His Question {OTOC's Challenge}

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  I looked up at him. Oh my god, I thought. The look on his face, the fright, all seemed to mirror if not what was on my face…

• Burrito Cat!

  by Stoner 11 months ago

  He used to think the Burrito Cat stories his grandfather told were to frighten kids during the Festival of the Dead but there…

• Little Red Pills

  by `espressotherapy. 11 months ago

  Spilled out in front of me they taunt me. They asked if I am going to have the courage to do it. A glass of water, an empty h…

• Cutting

  by `espressotherapy. 11 months ago

  I watch the blood. I watch the crimson fall from my arm. It no longer hurts when I do this. It feels good, it is relief. The …

• How Could I?

  by .:band baby:. 11 months ago

  This is so beautiful! I thought.

  No. It is not. Things cannot be beautiful. A voice hissed.

  Why not? I asked confused…

• Is Death an Inevitability?

  by AccusedWishes 11 months ago

  Welcome to my first story..the one that began with the death of my pet,Charlie. Charlie,or Char,as we called him,was a good p…

• Stories Change...

  by Mikomi 11 months ago

  As I sit before my computer, hands slouched across the keys that beg me to type, I wonder…what will I write about? My frame…

• Monday's Mail

  by Mike Kearney 11 months ago

  I received a large package in the mail. It was a white brick with big black letters on it.

  FIRE ME.

  I was perplexed. I wasn…

• Company of the Dead

  by Valley Fey/Pinprick 11 months ago

  Roland looked at the crows that had brought about this powerful state of being. He could see their skeletons, their still-bea…

• Reminds Me Of You

  by Phsycic Friend 11 months ago

  ‘I’m looking out the window….wishing for you to be here with me.’

  ‘I’m laying on the cold ground looking up at the clear s…

• These are what make a heart

  by Jennifer Meow 11 months ago

  If I could fly
  If I could soar against the star embedded sky
  I’d know all the answers that have been missing in my life
  for s…

• Scheduled Deception

  by Stovohobo 11 months ago

  “Wait—it’s scheduled on Hardegon? This soon?” Malakai howled, forcing one of his vizier’s to cover her ears.

  “Sir, if it’s …

• The Gotcha Machine

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 10 months ago

  “Ok?” Jeff said. “Yeah. Ok in a psycho stalker bitch kind of way. I’m at my wit’s end, man!”

  “Have you tried…”

  “Talking…

• Unpredictable would've been a better word [Crossover Challenge]

  by Ana Cristina 10 months ago

  In time I came to see I was wrong to call Felicia peaceful. We’d been staring into the still surface of a lake when I impulsi…

• Summerdale at Twilight

  by Maddawg 10 months ago

  I see lost souls in the twilight grasses of Summerdale, Alabama. The clusters of light dot the fields like fireflies, stretch…

• Hot Dogs

  by Fyora Cartagan 10 months ago

  The giddy maid danced around her employer’s house as she worked. She was given free reign of the house for most of the day, s…

• What Should Have Been

  by Penny Lane 10 months ago

  She opened the door, finally. It took all of her nerves just to pack the bags. With a carry-on in one hand and her baby in th…

• Unknown

  by 585/5987463/231452/1424 10 months ago

  Static Static-
  Compulsive Static-
  Unknown Wars
  Static Static
  GtReDwEr/425415
  AVTgrb-9844
  EgRT
  Static Static-
  World War III
  St…

• Professions in Study Hall

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  “Psst, Janie.”
  “Eric? Shh, Ms. Stone will hear.”
  “It’s only study hall. Besides, it’s important.”
  “Sigh. What is it, Eric?”...

• Pop Bottle Pete Loves Big Ida {Shocking Dialogue Challenge}

  by YodaOnCrack 10 months ago

  “Little man, think he funny! Little man stealin’ my Pepsi bottle! No way, Little man – you feel me knockin?!”

  “Ida, co…

• Lovers Worry(Shocking Dialouge Challenge)

  by flute faerie 10 months ago

  “Don’t leave, I love you!”

  “Well, maybe I don’t feel the same. “

  “You have to! I can just tell!”

  “Listen, Sophie, I don’...

• To Serve Man

  by Ben Paddon 10 months ago

  The kettle begins to whistle, and before the sound has a chance to pick up any real volume the droid lifts it off the small g…

• Time is an Illusion

  by YodaOnCrack 10 months ago

  “No,” she replied.

  “Have a seat,” he said. “I’ll be right back.” He walked back inside, closing the doors to the balcony as …

• Promises

  by someday_93 10 months ago

  “Lily, are you sure…” Anna’s voice trailed off.

  “I need to, Anna. Please.” Lily grabbed the phone, put it up to her ear. ”...

• Exploding

  by Flute Loop<33 10 months ago

  “Lily, sweetheart, you know I love you, I would never hurt you on purpose....” he tried coaxing her.

  “I..uh..”, she though…

• Things to Do on the Edge of a Building

  by Eckhouse 10 months ago

  You are standing on the edge of a building.

  It’s neither your job nor your wish to be at this place, but you are there never…

• Love Struck

  by Tiggerstripn2 10 months ago

  The bell rang Molly gather her books, put on her sweater pulled her braids to the back of her head and started her walk home….

• In case of emergency

  by Russell Ruffino 10 months ago

  I haven’t died, at least I don’t think so, dying wouldn’t hurt this much, I think you find some sort of inner peace before y…

• Making Plans on the Edge of a Building

  by uselessness 10 months ago

  “An iPod?” gapes Max, incredulous.

  You roll your eyes. “Not just any iPod. This iPod contains the access codes and IP addres…

• Say it (a peom from my years as a tadpole)

  by Blossom Ruoqen 10 months ago

  People wish and wash away,
  fading even when it’s day,
  before they even get to say
  “I love you.”

  In my dreams is where I’m ke…

• The Master Potter (a poem from my years as a guppie)

  by Blossom Ruoqen 10 months ago

  Expose the secrets that I hold.

  All these secrets never told.

  So close to my heart, that’s now sold.

  Sold to a boy whose h…

• All his fault

  by Blusparrow 10 months ago

  Brain cried as he looked at her. Her face so pale, so cold. He was holding a rose. He never thought this would happen. It was…

• my winning contest-ish entry

  by llamaluvsmenotu 10 months ago

  ok so this one time i was in the kitchen. i grabbed a pot, opened the fridge, grabbed the number 7, everyone from Fall Out Bo…

• Why Pole Dancing Isn't Funny

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  Charles giggled to himself. His assistant elbowed him again in the ribs. Apparently he didn’t think giggling during a cultura…

• The Last Unicorn

  by No Middle Name about 1 year ago

  Miriam stopped hacking her way through the undergrowth. She had seen something following her through the forest. It was alway…

• The YodaOnCrack Rap Song

  by YodaOnCrack 10 months ago

  My name is Yoda

  That’s what I told-ya

  Come an inch closer and I’ll smoke-ya

  with my light saber or a _jedi mind tric…

• Isolation [I'm in the Mode for Love Challenge]

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  “It is time,” she says. Her inflection is for a question, but it’s a statement.

  “I’ll help you power down,” I say, my voice …

• In Loving Memory (My Sister in My Heart)

  by Brebelles 10 months ago

  A Tribute to a Loved One
  Lora Pacheco
  December 11th, 2007
  8:27P.M

  Lora is a close friend, who as of the date & time menti…

• I can't help but smile.

  by Shotgun 10 months ago

  “I mean if you were me what would you do?”

  Margaret looked up from her notepad at the last part. She thought to herself ‘Is …