Ridcully Calvert's published ficlets
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Damned if you do, and double damned if you don't

Griggs sat down at his temporary station in the field HQ. Strategic thinking had always been his strong point, from his decor…
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Experimental Ficlet No 11

............The same as that time that I tried selling crack. That ended badly…….......
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I would do anything for love, but... {sing song challenge}

The once beautiful woman stands at the waiter station, darkly glaring over the crowded restaurant. Her complexion has become …
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Organising the procedure [Unexpected twist challenge]

“Hello Mrs Jones, please take a seat,” the professional yet kindly looking man in the green smock said.
“I understand your c…
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Establishing a base

After my abortive attempt to immolate poor luckless Mike, I hid in the kitchen waste pile at the back of the ship until we do…
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The long hunt [Supporting characters challenge]

N’kwaxgu had had enough of this. He had been running down game over the golden sands of the Kalahari since he was a hundred m…
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The goon gets on my nerves

I made the goon walk down the stairs ahead of me. Every time that he slowed down, I would belt him solidly in the middle of t…
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Country drag queens

From the day that they were born as conjoined triplets, everyone knew that the Barnett brothers (well two brothers and a herm…
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Unexplained feelings of guilt

After coming to in the park, I dashed for home. In between hiding in hedges, stealing trash-can lids to cover my nether regio…
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Desert Sect

A prophet’s job is never done, you see. From converting the faithless, healing the sick and preaching, to committing sins of …
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Page 12

You decide to taunt the police officers by not telling them everything you know at once. “I demand my wight to thilenthe” you…
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Page 23

You run amok in the old age home, grabbing whatever you can find that is worth some money.
You hear Bite cackling in a room….
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Nanobot offensive

“Now that I have your attention,” Jen said in an unstable tone of voice “we are going to walk down to the bridge, and you are…
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Lightgasm
Aletta and I were walking Kitkat down the road one night. He got stir crazy cooped up in the flat all day, and the only way t…
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A chance encounter

Spencer got home from work. As his garage door opened, he saw a grey streak disappear behind a cupboard.
He carefully appro…
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Caught!

I woke up on a concrete slab, bound head and foot. This was not good. The last thing I remembered was having a coffee at the …
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Troops, what troops?

They hit us from every possible entrance, some body-armoured UN thugs even came bubbling out of the super secure exits in the…
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Back to the salt mines

The next morning I turned my Corrola into the alley behind the GlobTrak satellite office, used my remote to open the trap-doo…
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Ridcully Calvert's quiz answers [Random quiz]

1. ... dressed up as … opposite gender for halloween?
Sigh, no… (We don’t really celebrate halloween much down here in…
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There goes that idea

I connected a video conference with my union rep. Bobby DeAngelo was, as usual, the picture of efficiency. He had been my rep…