Phil Sporlan's Stories

Buckle Up!

2008-06-23T02:05:27Z

Emily feels more powerful than ever before. Her eyes are shut, her mind…focused! She can see herself in her mind’s eye. Physical space is no more, blue light sprays from her finger tips. Ed reading her thoughts also can see all of this.

“I’m coming with you!” Ed yells. “Is that even possible? Your welcome, to come if it is.” She yells back.

Where were they going? The thought of what was taking place was like thinking about the universe and it’s never endingness. Currently she was in a hospital room number 34 to be exact, in a wonderball, now using her mind’s eye she was teleporting to Chris’ brain? and is Ed coming?

These are places that don’t exsist on maps, today indeed was a special kinda day.

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2008-06-18T04:13:44Z

Boston become champions for the 17th time, first time since 1986! Go Boston!

Hello Ed

2008-06-13T02:10:14Z

The year is 1954, a slightly younger version of Ed is reading a paper at a cafe. Three men in trench coats walk into the cafe. Ed looks up at them.

“Is it time already, has it been a week? Please let me stay here, I won’t tell anyone.”

The head trench coat speaks up. “Ed a deal is a deal. We gave you a week in beautiful 1954 and now you need to come with us and do your part, when you’re done, right back here you’ll come.”

Ed shakes his head, without a fight he leaves with the men.

Now outside Ed smiles as he gets his last few minutes of what he called “the purest years of all time” a tear forms in the corner of his eye, deep down he knows he’ll never be back.

From Inside The Wonderball part 2

2008-06-10T07:24:08Z

Emily is frustrated with the system of communication not sure if Dana is getting everything she is saying. Ed walks over to the window. Emily walks away.

“It can be tricky, you’ll get the hang of it.” Ed smiles at his new friend.

“I hope not! I don’t want to get the hang of anything, I want to get out of here ASAP !” Emily yells

Ed stands in front of the window and begins to communicate with Dana. He says “Don’t leave she’s lying!”

Emily freaks out. “What are you doing?”

Ed again smiles this time less friendly than the times before. “I’ve been in her for around fifty years, when I get visitors I like to hold on to them for at least a few years.”

Emily just stares at the old man, if she had a gun, he’d be dead.

“I’m joking of course, Dana is not the one we want taking this journey, too dangerous for her. We need someone who is one tough enough to handle this and two able to believe two people are trapped in this ball of plastic.”

Emily looks up at Ed “My big brother Chris”

From Inside The Wonderball

2008-06-10T07:13:51Z

Inside the Wonderball is not like one would think.
It’s a small room with many magazines and books, a few chairs and a giant circle window and one large door with the number 37 on it.

Emily can talk to Dana by standing in front of the window. If she talks too fast sometimes the window can’t keep up, plus sometimes he interupts.

He is an older man with a long white beard, he calls himself Ed.

“Emily once we leave this ball, we only have thirty-seven hours to take a new form, or we’ll die. All you have to do is go through that door, a woman in the next room over will teach you how to take over someone’s body. It’s really freaky stuff, I couldn’t make it through the entire class.”

Emily is crying, she looks up at Ed and begs.
“Please there must be another way!”

Ed smiles

“Emily there is another way, the way I’ve been waiting for. On the outside, there’s a man who can help us.”

Emily walks over to the window and tries to tell Dana that someone can help her.

Who are you?

2008-06-08T07:47:49Z

Emily quickly tosses the “plastic ball of death” into the bathroom sink and closes the door. Both stare at the door waiting for something, anything.

Nothing.

Emily in panic mode.
“Dana I’m so sorry! We need to get you to a different room, maybe a different hospital.”
Dana argees, as she does a noise comes from the bathroom. Emily begins to shake, Dana’s eyes begin to water. This is it, the waiting is over. What ever was meant to happen is going to happen right now. The noise gets louder, for moment and then it stops.

Emily walks over to the door to investigate. Slowly to the door.Before she gets to the door it opens, just a crack. Her arm extends to to push the door open, before she does it swings open with great force. A man is seen with an evil grin.
He stares at Emily. She can not move or scream.
In a whisper the man speaks.
“Emily! It’s time.”

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2008-05-31T04:11:16Z

Boston wins!
I’ve been a fan for a long time Bird was the greatest!
I had my doubts 2 seven game series and Detriot being monsters like the are.

Lakers @ Celtics

good stuff

Warning this my be the worst ficlet ever!

puzzle 2

2008-05-28T04:54:48Z

Easy ? hope that wasn’t too hard.

It will get more difficult as we go.

Now take your number, convert it into Roman, Slash the last two letters. Down to three.

Find a champion football city, using those three.

The current mayor of that city has something in common with that game, find it and use it as your starting point for the next puzzle.

THE PUZZLE

2008-05-27T05:52:45Z

Why are you reading this? Shouldn’t you be in bed? If not than maybe at work. At the very least you should be writing, writers write you’ve heard that before.

Maybe you’re taking a break, looking for inspiration, won’t find it here.

All you’ll find here is a piece of a puzzle. Answer the question and use that answer to figure out the next piece, so on and so forth.

At any point if the puzzle becomes too difficult to solve please by all means stop and work on something else.

(This is for entertainment purposes only…or is it?)

What number is it?
The number of islands in the Hawaiian island chain minus the 26th prime number.

“Another package, another dollar”

2008-05-27T05:31:27Z

“Another package, another dollar” I keep repeating this as I follow up the unsafe staircase.

Now I’m in a room with a single lamp at the other end of the room. The man we’ll call Teeth from now on, puts the package on a shelf. Teeth then grabs a suitcase.

“This package is locked, it has a chip inside of it. I’ll have your exact location while it’s with you.”

Teeth walks over to me setting the large breifcase next to me, a chain is connected to a handcuff, he quickly slaps it onto my left wrist.

“If I see you stop moving for more than thirty minutes, you are telling me you’re trying to cut the chain, at that point I send someone to kill you. If this package isn’t recieved by my brother in three days…I’ll send someone to kill you.”

He hands me a bundle of money and directions.

“Have fun” He says

Ficlet Crack

2008-05-24T04:50:25Z

Good everyone is gone. Now first I’ll check for comments, no comments. Ok lets take a look at views. A few but not a thousand, how did I get a thousand? Maybe I need to write something original. I know, I’ll do a sequel.

I got it, I’ll do a sequel to a featured ficlet.

...

Ten views, and just one comment. What do I do?

This is like crack, not that I know what crack is all about but this most be what it feels like. I’ll go to bed, after just one more comment. Maybe I’m doing too much. No I’m sure I’m not, I need to do more.

Hello Teeth

2008-05-24T03:43:57Z

Very Dark, too dark. Is this it? I’m I going to die?
“Did anyone see you come here?”

Did I make a mistake? Did he not know who I was? I should of had some coffee. I better answer or it’ll be lights out for me.

“I was very careful, no one saw me.”

Finally lights, a giant set of teeth stand befor me. I liked it better with the lights off. The man begins to open the package, I usually don’t get to see this part. His large pant size is blocking the goods, it’s probably better I don’t see what’s in the package.

“You did very well, I want to give you something, you’ll have to come up to my room to get it.” He smiles.

I think I might be in one of those dammed if I do dammed if I don’t situations.

Seven and a Half Years later

2008-05-24T03:32:18Z

He gets home, it’s been raining all day. Twelve hours at work really eats up a day.

“Hi babe”
No answer from his wife, she’s doing dishes.

“I said hello!”
She turns and says “What?”
“I said get your ears checked!” He hates repeating himself.

“Well I’m doing the dishes!”
“No shit”

The romance is gone, poor love. They have become consumer droids. Have a nice nap.

The real My Space

2008-05-24T02:35:55Z

He sees one of his ficlets have made it big, over a thousand reads, it’s on the Most Popular list. He begins to wonder why, why this one? It’s part of a series, and it’s one basically in the middle of the series. Maybe the tags, he checks what he used for tags, nothing special. He doesn’t care, he begins to read the comments. They like it, they like me. I need to write more. I need to contact these people and keep them reading. Oh what a feeling! I made these people laugh, they’re connecting with my characters. I can’t get enough. Wait someone is coming. I can’t let real people know what I’m doing, they’ll make fun of me, they’ll say something negative. I’ll be back when everyone is gone. X out.

$45 for a new life

2008-05-24T02:27:13Z

Forty-five dollars doesn’t seem like alot of money to start a new life. It would have to do. It was time to do it. Should I leave a note for my sister? It would only make it harder. She was the better daughter and she played the role to a T.

The first step is always the hardest. I should probably hitchhike as much as possible, that would save a lot of money. Makes me wonder if my impossible mother has anything hid in this house. I doubt it very much, not worth looking. I could always get a ride from Lee, he’ll do anything for me. It’s probably better to not tell anyone of my plans, my new life in New York City.

Oh how wonderful it’ll be to be free, to be anything and and one I want. The air will be better, the people and land will be better. I will change my name, I’ll change my hair color. The possibilities are endless. The key to it all of course, never look back.