Ficlets

White Hat's published ficlets

Yet Another Belated Quiz Response

by White Hat 5 months ago 48 0 2

Favorite color?
Red, green, or blue, depending on the day.

Favorite TV show?
Current one? The Sarah Connor Chronicles....
More Belated Quiz Answers Just Cuz

by White Hat 5 months ago 30 0 3

What color/pattern is the nearest tissue box to you right now?
If I knew I would be blowing my nose instead of answering qu…
Belated Quiz Responses For The Hell of It

by White Hat 5 months ago 53 1 2

Is there just one normal, average everyday thing some people do that you just think is a mortal sin?
Using netspeak in actu…
Stage 14

by White Hat 5 months ago 47 4 5

I find myself spiraling ever closer to madness.

The walls… they taunt me. She taunts me.

I haven’t eaten in… a very l…
Style For You (!!!)

by White Hat 5 months ago 71 6 5

You sit at your keyboard eating your Pocky. You liked the 1024-character pseudonymous fiction. To write your own is something…
Beauty Incarnate

by White Hat 5 months ago 91 8 10

Beauty is not having to answer to anyone, I thought.

_Beauty is freedom from criticism, freedom from constraint. Beauty is…
Caution

by White Hat 5 months ago 24 1 3

I fell for hours.

This is not hyperbole. I was not in space. Not technically.

Imagine a giant sphere as thick as a planet s…
Appearances

by White Hat 5 months ago 39 4 2

She stood calmly among the stars. Eyes closed, as if meditating, or listening to music no-one else could hear. Like the capta…
Craft

by White Hat 5 months ago 27 1 0

In the event of a water landing, I would be used as a flotation device, according to the dropship pilot.

Why she would nee…
Bad To Worse To Worst

by White Hat 5 months ago 46 4 3
The Forced Rhyming!

by White Hat 5 months ago 58 3 3

lost in an endless maze
what i really need is a lathe

to fashion a baseball bat
and club that damn guy with the hat

that to…
Not Again

by White Hat 5 months ago 45 3 3

“Why do you kill people?” she asked, trembling, her face sprinkled with blood and dust. “There are so few of us left.”

It wa…
Apologies

by White Hat 5 months ago 34 2 2

No apologies in the land of the dead. I was learning this the hard way, aided by the meaty fists of an irate Spartan warrior….
The Rain

by White Hat 5 months ago 48 1 1

A liquor cabinet full of hope.

Scissors of justice, a pervert’s panty stash of righteousness.

Slice slice. Pop. Stuff.

Pop…
Sequelbait?

by White Hat 5 months ago 48 2 4

I mounted the vespa in as close to motorcycle style as I could manage. Kick-start.

“Bruummm-cough-sputter,” said the vespa.
...
Evil Robots From The Future Again

by White Hat 5 months ago 23 1 3

“Let me re-explain in simpler terms.”

“No. I get it. You’re an evil cyborg from the future sent to prevent the human resista…
Cybercapitalismo

by White Hat 5 months ago 33 1 0

98,000.

A blur.

97,000.

The numbers ticked by quietly on my visual feed and I steeled myself for the inevitable.

My colle…
An Event In Itself

by White Hat 6 months ago 26 1 1

At last.

Awareness dawned in synchrony with the planet’s local sunrise. Deep within, the rumblings of ancient fires began …
Afterthought

by White Hat 6 months ago 20 1 1

“Why couldn’t they have just nuked the thing from orbit?” was becoming a personal motto.

“Orders are orders,” was the inevit…
If you don't have anything nice to say...

by White Hat 6 months ago 58 3 3

I have only one nice thing to say about the Pathfinders, though everything I have to say about them they’d take as a compli…