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• 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…

• The Masked Stranger

  by Lone Writer 9 months ago

  The Masked Stranger wandered through town aimlessly. Of course she wasn’t wearing her mask, that would have been stupid. With…

• Maybe Ghost Story's Aren't the Best Bedtime Story's

  by Tales From The Script 9 months ago

  Her parents were going out of town, the sleep over was her moms ideal. Her friends fell asleep first, leaving her awake, alon…

• 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…

• Inter-species Flirting

  by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

  “Ellie, love,” Lem turned to her, “it’s not true. I’ve never been on this planet or seen creatures like this.”

  “Don’t call …

• Emergency Expenditures of Adolescence

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  With an anxiety heretofore unrivaled in his short life, Den watched her face react. First came dumbfounded surprise, an altog…

• 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 …

• Vanilla Ice: A Semi-Original Spoof by BARomero

  by BARomero 9 months ago

  Vanilla Ice
  Got himself into a lot of fights
  Vanilla Ice
  Beat up by a bunch of guys
  Vanilla Ice
  Ordered up a bowl of rice
  Van…

• 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…

• 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…

• {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…

• Tast-E-Freeze Duplicity

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  “It ain’t right,” Pistol said as he hopped out of the old truck at the Tast-E-Freeze, “You know Sweet’s bout t’ask her out.”
  ...

• FICLET THE 26th! LONE WRITER'S 1st CONTEST

  by Lone Writer 9 months ago

  Yes this is my 1st attempt at a Ficlet contest, so please don’t kill me if it’s horrible. Your challenge is this, you must se…

• Dark Entities

  by Fuchsia Deviant 9 months ago

  I can’t move.

  My mind is awake, my senses aware, but my body fails to take notice. I am trapped within myself, a victim of s…

• Like a shadow on shadows

  by The Ghost in the Machine 9 months ago

• The Song of the Pitchforked Children

  by artistsrunwild 9 months ago

  Her lantern flickered and went out.
  _Hear the little children,
  summoned from below.
  They beckon and they beg,
  for you to go a…

• 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…

• 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 …

• Storm Runners

  by Lone Writer 9 months ago

  Five days at sea and Morgan, Quarry, Seline and Rory were already having the time of their lives. They were in the pool hall …

• Gone Under

  by Shadow 9 months ago

  I was losing my grip again, my body going under, going into the other realm.

  I was scared as hell.

  My lungs were trapped, ...

• Above

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Above

  Above the morays of contemporary life
  Above the rote and dry facts
  Above the catastrophes and pratfalls of socializing…

• Becoming Lillia

  by someday_93 9 months ago

  The painting was covered by a thin layer of dust. As she pulled back the heavy red curtain, Kiarra was apprehensive. Why, she…

• 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…

• 2 shots

  by The Ghost in the Machine 9 months ago

• Those Red High-Heels

  by [pens&feathers] 9 months 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 …

• A Reality

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Horizon to horizon I see no ocean,
  as if the land could swallow me up

  There is no peace, no blank space,
  as the details of l…

• All That Glitters Isn't Gold, Mate

  by Batak Beatrix 9 months ago

  The captain sat heavily on a barrel and pulled out his pipe. As he lit it, the flaring flames cast shadows on his craggy face…

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

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

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

• Doublewide Damnation

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  Virgil stared down the dirt road. This was the road. It led from their thrice repaired doublewide to the old highway, from …

• Tanya

  by Lone Writer 9 months ago

  A woman stepped out of the stagecoach. She was as beautiful as the western sun. I relaxed a little but not competley. After a…

• Blueyedwonder's nEw Challenge from...not hell! (Sorry, YodaOnCrack, couldn't resist). And this is Sorta-Halfway-Kinda Dedicated to Howie Amourscow for Unintentionally giving me the Idea :D

  by blueyedwonder 9 months ago

  Okay, I know this is totally random and uncalled for since I still have 122 ficlets, but I got this idea and I know I’m gonna…

• Concussion

  by One Time, One Chance 9 months ago

  Someone comes home, and I didn’t reconginize them, so I kicked them in the stomach with as much lust as a soccer striker coul…

• Frog Giggin'

  by Stovohobo 9 months ago

  He shushed her with a finger to his lips. She peered worriedly over at him, nervously fingering her long auburn hair.

  “Where…

• Even the Voices Have left Me

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  It was dark, I felt claustrophobic. The last thing I remember is the voices in my head, telling me to kill my sister Lolly.

  ...

• Alec and Simone Make Dinner Plans

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 9 months ago

  “Well, Al,” Simone hissed through another wave of pain, “it’s nice to meet you, but us standing around in an alley is not goi…

• Death is always an option

  by Stoner 9 months ago

  “Now James, you’d best calm down and listen very carefully. When I open the door to your cage, the bomb around your neck wi…

• Lonely Relics

  by uselessness 9 months ago

  “Do you feel that?”

  “Feel what?”

  “That energy. That tingling on your arms.”

  I didn’t respond. Yvette had always been into …

• A life in the balance

  by Stoner 9 months ago

  “Please! Please don’t hurt my baby!” she screamed through streaming tears. Sarah inched along the building’s ledge, her verti…

• Polyphobia

  by Tiggerstripn2 9 months ago

  Kate boarded the plane, shoving her bag in the over head. Sat down and called the attendant and ask for a drink.
  She took a …

• 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…

• Whet To Drowned

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  “La-a-and, ho!” came a cry from the crow’s nest.
  Capt. Dalley eyed Francis, “And that be the land ye’d just a-spied fer us?”
  ...

• You Killed Her

  by Mask By The Moon 9 months ago

• 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 …

• 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…

• 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 …

• Of Witches and Heroes {Simon story}

  by Alexa ♥ 9 months ago

  “What’s up?” A voice called out. Simon turned to see Tommy, the boy who sat near him in math class.

  “Hi Tommy,” Sarah said. ...

• 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…

• Terribly Excited

  by Laine P. Grey 9 months ago

  Jonathan glanced out the window anxiously. The heavy rain had obstructed his view quite a bit, yet he could tell a large pack…

• 50 Doors

  by SeekGround 9 months ago

  Finally, as I stepped around a blade of grass, I was forced to halt on a dime. Otherwise, I would have fallen into a river o…

• Meanwhile, In A Converted Firehouse In NYC

  by Howie Amourscow 9 months ago

  Big D. roared into the garage and hit the door opener; dismounted, grabbed the plastic bags in two huge fists and went in. Ex…

• Diaspora's Leukophobia

  by Lone Writer 9 months ago

  Someone was waiting for her at Pyle’s Yard.She’d always heard that strange things happened there, but being a person who was …

• The Fall of Icarus

  by Batak Beatrix 9 months ago

  “Did you remember to pick up my dry cleaning on the way home?” I asked, throwing myself bonelessly on to the sofa.

  “It’s on …

• The Dangers Of Rabbit Tossing

  by T.F. Torrey 9 months ago

  “It doesn’t seem like much of a trick to me,” she said

  “What? Of course it’s a trick. It’s a really good trick.”

  She frowne…

• The Shadow Wraith

  by Lone Writer 9 months ago

  A glow filled her room and that’s when she knew everything would be all right.
  Everything would be all right…
  At that mo…

• The Legend of Batak Beatrix

  by Batak Beatrix 8 months ago

  Many moons ago, a group of undergraduates studying anthropology stayed up far in to the night, speaking of the world at large…

• AD 2029: Legacy of Humans

  by Maddawg 8 months ago

  The meteor struck with enough force to destroy all of humanity. All human life disappeared in the giant impact, and in their …

• Song List per a Challenge

  by THX 0477 8 months ago

  1. Party Hard by Andrew W. K.
  2. Hamster Dance
  3. The Anvil Chorus by Verdi
  4. I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkne…

• Tarot II

  by cainegreene 8 months ago

  Frustrated after spending the day trying to find his old tarot cards John went to bed. The sermon haunted him; “Christians sh…

• Announcing: The Ficlets Casting Couch Challenge!

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 8 months ago

  In honor of publishing my 69th ficlet, I’m getting on the band wagon and issuing my own challenge.

  You’ve all debated with f…

• Stella Starr - The Movie {Casting Couch Challenge}

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 8 months ago

  For the lead role of Stella Starr, plucky 1930’s girl detective, I would cast Veronica Mars star, Kristen Bell. When I …

• An Apartment Between Them {Casting Couch Challenge}

  by Alexa ♥ 8 months ago

  Kate is your average woman (though slightly better-looking because the cameras are rolling and we want people to pay to see…

• Casting Couch Challenge for some Doublewide Damnation

  by THX 0477 8 months ago

  It’s not a regular series, cause there’s no ongoing story arc, and the individual pieces are more like random snapshots out o…

• Scarlet: The Major Motion Picture

  by Laine P. Grey 8 months ago

  My absolute favortie Australian girl, Emily Browning, simply must play Scarlet.

  The role of Holden Thompson would be Rider S…

• What Got Me Writing, This Time Around

  by THX 0477 8 months ago

  Asleep, of course, I dream I’m on a stage. I know, in the way that you can only know things in a dream, that I’m part of the …

• Black {Amaster's Color Challenge}

  by Alexa ♥ 8 months ago

  He was dead. Nothing would ever bring him back.

  It was silly and irrational, but her response was to go to the closet. Upon …

• What's With All These New Challenges? (Otherwise Known as Stovohobo's 300th Ficlet)

  by Stovohobo 8 months ago

  I’ve been noticing that lately, for some reason, almost all of the Most Popular and Active ficlets are challenges. This had n…

• Pervert targets girls on Ficlets (THIS IS REAL)

  by Tiggerstripn2 8 months ago

  Today I was contacted by a person via my im said she was reading my story The Others. She turned into a he and a pervert at t…

• And the winner of the YodaOnCrack Halloween Challenge is....

  by YodaOnCrack 8 months ago

  Before I announce the winner, I narrowed all of these to the top 10. This was HARD!!

  Many entries missed the top 10 list by…

• Stella Starr and The City of the Super-Apes: Monkey Trouble

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars about 1 year ago

  “The monkeys told me I’d find you here, Dr. Munroe,” Stella said, her .38 aimed at the doctor.

  “Stella Starr, Girl Detective…

• Hereditary Right

  by YodaOnCrack 7 months ago

  Bearing the accouterments of the ceremony and clad in his finest battle armor, King Vorenus was escorted to the Great Hall. B…

• Bumbo The Happy Wood Nymph [NaNoWriMo]

  by THX 0477 7 months ago

  _Bumbo the happy wood nymph capered through a beautiful meadow. He carried with him his licorice banjo and a basket of doll h…

• Stella Starr and the Road to Gangster's Paradise: The Wrath of the Undead Don

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars about 1 year ago

  Frankie Stein was built like a baby grand. That along with the scars, the corpse-blue pallor of his skin, his cold, dead eyes…

• The Hush of Battle

  by l.m.orchard about 1 year ago

  A trio of men cowered in a trench under the full moon and starry sky. Crickets and night-flying birds were the loudest sounds…

• Colors of death

  by suzieaim about 1 year ago

  Red, green, blue. The spectral shades paint a picture of his death. One man, in a box, beneath a tree. His life was more vibr…

• The Wrong Song

  by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

  Orange, yellow, white,
  the box is way too tight.
  The spectral shades
  where energy fades
  Somehow isn’t right.

  Vibrant is t…

• yuri

  by I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!! 7 months ago

  yuri,yuri,I can’t seem to get that name out of my head.
  “sorry like an angel” then he comes right back and stabs me with a ar…

• The Drama Queen

  by Storykeeper of Fae 7 months ago

  “Jeff? You there? Dude, answer your phone, it’s me, Mitch!”

  Oh, haleluiah! “Mitch? Thank God it’s you!”

  “Yeah…love you,...

• Barefoot with Shoes to Fill

  by uselessness 7 months ago

  I know a guy who can remember when he was born. Seriously.

  But I’ve never been so unfortunate, myself, with a childhood stee…

• Thee corn mill

  by I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!! 7 months ago

  The cold heart beated once more.
  the man who had the gun was standing there with a terror look in his eyes. He had done it. H…

• Summerdale at Twilight

  by Maddawg 7 months ago

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

• All of the Other Reindeer

  by SKermitgorf 7 months ago

  “Are we there yet?”

  “No Donder, I’ll tell you when we get there.”

  “How Long Santa, how Long will it take?”

  “Comet, will yo…

• NEWS FLASH!!: FEMALE BODYBUILDING CHAMPION CLAIMS TO BE VAMPIRE {Vampire Challenge}

  by YodaOnCrack 7 months ago

  Tabitha Moore was tall and fit, with long dark hair that fell down her back like black velvet. Even with her muscular frame s…

• The Boy, The Girl, and The Black Crow

  by Ana Cristina 7 months ago

  Once upon a time there lived a boy and a girl who were poorer than even church mice, so poor that their only roof was the sky…

• Eternal Monologue

  by Howie Amourscow 7 months ago

  It takes three things to kill a vampire.

  Yes, I know.

  Of course you do.

  Then why are we talking about it?

  Because you hav…

• uselessness's SHOCKING DIALOGUES Challenge!

  by uselessness 7 months ago

  So I’ve never hosted my own challenge, but seeing how it is all the rage these days, I figured I’d finally take a stab at it …

• Newsflash! I Am Not A Hack! Stop Staring At Me! I Hate All Of You!

  by Howie Amourscow 7 months ago

• [Abstinence] Setting The Table

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 7 months ago

• Head games

  by Ben Paddon 7 months ago

  Perhaps he should have been worried. These little fantasies he imagined were more and more frequently intruding themselves on…