David Schlachter's published ficlets
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Computer Gone Wrong
David looked questioningly at his computer screen. Somehow, it was different, but he did not know why. The cursor jumped a ce…
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Password Change
So I’m sitting around in the IT department, a million computers behind me. And yet it’s nothing new. Suddenly, Seb pops out f…
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Comfort food
And yet she was actually quite slim for her age. It wasn’t her fault that she was so tall. What was a female basketball pla…
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Getting to the Door
I did not know what I had done, I thought that I hadn’t let anything slip, not given a single sign. I was running down the co…
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The St. Pat's Case
Detective Q. E. Colaily sat behind his desk in his dank and musty office. The snow had begun to melt, and yet the case he wou…
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Glowing Faces
Panoramas of spectacular sky rushed into being. Nobody knew what she would say to them all. It seemed like a dream, it seemed…
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Reality Part II: Some kind of hallucinogen?
She looked up to the sky, the colour melting and shifting in an ocean of creamy waves. The ground trembled and faded as a rip…
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A Muse
A storm of rushing music caught her. Somehow, the music had a looming presence thinly veiled behind it, and yet she couldn’t …
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The forest
The colors faded away, but in reality, they didn’t. It seemed to her like something had taken the color, taken the softness o…
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The Grammarian and the Lemur
“I am correct!” hollered the grammarian!
“You are not”, I countered, “You have no idea what you are talking about”.
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The Creature in my Writing
As I paced the lush Mediterranean beach, I thought to myself. Why am I a writer? Why does the sun set? Why are cats a recurri…
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Dooh da data, Doodo da
I ran to the door, leftovers in hand. There wasn’t much time left.
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The Cat
It all seemed so real… The shark glided through the bustling waters of sky. Was it a dream? Was it reality? He didn’t know,...
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