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The Typewriter

by Stovohobo

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The rains fell like little teardrops, spattering on the pavement and bouncing off the cafe umbrellas.

The old man’s arthritic hands painfully pounded out each and every letter.

Glidna looked around for the man who said he would be here. Her hair matted to her smooth skin and stuck there, sopping wet but ethereally beautiful.

The typewriter seemed to develop yet another film of rust. One layer for every year of his life.

Over the course of her life, Glidna had uncovered that she was never very much inclined to waiting, and that it was a waste of her time to be doing nothing while someone else was being late. But the man would be here.

The old man smiled grimly with a look of lost joy and possible nostalgia. He remembered. Yes, he remembered the feeling.

Glidna spun her head, to and fro, scattering raindrops along the tile.

The ache in his arm.

She squinted.

The old man wheezed as he typed out the last few words.

There he was.

In his last breath, the old man vanished. Glidna smiled.

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THX 0477
Posted 3 months ago

Ah, that was very romantic and even magical. Loved the whole idea, and execution was spot on. Great one! Worth every last one of the five stars.
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[pens&feathers]
Posted 3 months ago

Wow, awesome! Excellent concept and execution.
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Nissakit
Posted 3 months ago

That story was amazing, I liked how you wrote his story too!
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Posted 3 months ago

Glidna sure is a hot name…
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Posted 3 months ago

Glidna sure is a hot name…
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Posted 3 months ago

Glidna sure is a hot name…
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Krulltar
Posted 3 months ago

Very well done.
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Apostrophe
Posted 2 months ago

Very well done, indeed magical.

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cafe, death, die, ficlet nirvana, glidna, heart, meeting, nostalgia, old man, rust, story, typewriter

About the author

Stovohobo

∞, The Universe, The Milky Way, The Earth, The Western Hemisphere, The U.S.

My Blog (See Extended Versions of Writing Here, Too)

“Chips Ahoy: Have You Had Your Chocolatey Jesus Today?” -IM with other ficleteers. Yeah. Inside joke to alienate everyone else.

Holy schnitzel! Ficlets is working again! Oh, frabjous day!

A List of Pet Peeves:
• When people spell “whoa” like “woah” or “yeah” like “yea.”
• When shirts say “LaX” on them and I automatically think of laxatives.
• The feel of chlorine after you dry off.
• Going to bed earlier than you usually do and waking up later than the previous day.
• Wasting the day away on the computer or being inside.
• People using IM speak in real life or in handwritten notes.
• MySpace, IM, text messages, etc. I got ‘em, then don’t use them because I don’t like being bothered.
• Humidity.
• Bugs during humidity.
• No choice but to run when it’s buggy and humid.
• People calling me pessimistic for having a long list of pet peeves. =)

Things I Like:
• New find: Wondermark.com
• Wasting the day away on the computer or being inside.
• Marathons of “Ninja Warrior” on G4.
• Going over to my friend’s house and not caring about laughing at Saturday morning cartoons.
• Dissing Disney Channel.
• Calvin & Hobbes.
• Dominating, via luck, an activity that no one thought you could dominate in.
• Debating (and winning).
• Frisbees.
• Soccer.
• Comments and Sequels/Prequels.

School’s starting, which means I must’ve passed the one-year mark a while ago, actually. So one year and a month or two on ficlets. And yet some people have written 600+ ficlets in half the time _{Ana Cristina} cough! Cough, I say!

Want to start a series with me? Note me and let’s do it! (I’m sorta forgetful, though, so you might have to remind me to sequel). =)

Never ever ever ever ever EVER EVER be afraid to sequel my junk.

Many of these series have not been finished, whether I forgot about them or just got bored of them. Some of them are only a few ficlets long. Feel free to extend them, and note me about it if you want to; I’d love to read them!

Series and Junk

Heaven Help Us with ○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○
http://ficlets.com/stories/31088

The Comprehensive (Compressed) Guide to Middle School Life
http://ficlets.com/stories/31069

Copper and Ginny with Overlooked_Merchandise
http://ficlets.com/stories/30853

Speed vs. Still with Never Explain:
http://ficlets.com/stories/19103
Tyler and Max are two friends living in the dystopian city of Rade, with time-and-physics-bending abilities.

Speed Vs. Still II with Never Explain:
http://ficlets.com/stories/29112
Tyler returns to Rade to take revenge on the Elders.

Addison and the Wooden Man with Never Explain and Tad Winslow:
http://ficlets.com/stories/28017
Addison lives on a farm with a disinterested old man. While he is there, a strange scarecrow starts to lead him down strange paths.

Adam and Anthony://stovohobo.blogspot.com/

Graden and Emilia with Never Explain:
http://ficlets.com/stories/19262
Graden, the angel of death, has a new assignment: a woman named Emilia.

The Happy Torture Tests (the Psychology One) with THX and Never Explain
http://ficlets.com/stories/25231
A man is subject to torturous experiments in the name of psychology, continually trapped inside freakish scenarios in his own mind.

Brass Eagle (Officially finished as of 9/13/2007):
http://ficlets.com/stories/7465
Brass Eagle and his team of ragtag heroes attempt to undermine the creepy-evil Caretaker’s work on his island.

New Adrien (Sequel to Brass Eagle series) (finished as of 11/??/07):
http://ficlets.com/stories/9390
It’s been 10 years since the attack on the island, and Brass Eagle’s team has split up. The Caretaker returns in a very different way.

Vampire Prison:
http://ficlets.com/stories/8844
A small compound has been set up on Greenland, where the vampire kind are detained and abused in a concentration camp setting. One vampire attempts to escape.

Endless Corridor:
http://ficlets.com/stories/6298
Dali has been assigned to work on the Endless Corridor, a project of no apparent reason. The Grand Marshall soon reveals his intent.

Prince Hugo (started by blueyedwonder’s “It Was a Dark and Stormy Cliche):
http://ficlets.com/stories/6239
Prince Hugo gains the kingdom right after his father dies, and sets out to avenge his father with the hornless unicorn Gilly. A medieval farce.

Frozen in Fransisco:
http://ficlets.com/stories/28639
A band of survivors try to survive in the frozen out wasteland of San Fransisco.

Death: Really Quite Nice Once You Get To Know Them with MBTM, Fyora Cartagan, Yeah Write!:
http://ficlets.com/stories/9617
It’s not easy being the harvester of souls.

Not so According to Plan with Exhalted Truth:
http://ficlets.com/stories/8966

D’enouement:
http://ficlets.com/stories/8789
Mysterious letters are sent out to seemingly unrelated people who disappear shortly, leaving no trace behind.

Praha Matka Mest: The Mother of Cities:
http://ficlets.com/stories/7219
The CIA and numerous others, illegitimate or not, conflict over Derrick, a blind man excellent at detection, in the city of Prague.

Farvus the Dragynslayer:
http://ficlets.com/stories/7110
Farvus is sent out to do battle with the fearsome Dragyns sent by the Alchemysts. His father (coincedentally, the king) is rather forgetful and doesn’t seem to care much. Another farce.

Train of Thought:
http://ficlets.com/stories/6485
An old man boards the physical Train of Thought and travels through its many dream-world cars to save his granddaughter.

C U L8R with OTOC, Alexa, and various other sequelers:
http://ficlets.com/stories/6057
A girl receives threatening IM messages from a mysterious individual. Things only get stranger as the paranormal and criminal meet.

Kyra and I:
http://ficlets.com/stories/23528
Girls. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t…well, you know.

Burtininkas Richards and Wednesday Thomas with Laine P. Grey:
http://ficlets.com/stories/7544
Two magicians attempt to outplay each other in a murderous game of cat and mouse.

Orphan Found started by and continued with OTOC:
http://ficlets.com/stories/5426
A woman adopts a child only to be encountered by its young mother who had left it behind.

Mini Series

Death to the Innocents (written through prequels):
http://ficlets.com/stories/29718
The story of the Hiroshima atomic bombing from the Japanese perspective. Written backwards, through prequels.

Entries 17, 18, 19, 20:
http://ficlets.com/stories/7805
Strange dreams conflict inside a man’s head as he tries to make sense of them through journal entries.

There. Hopefully that’s a little more organized and stuff now. Have fun reading!

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Published on May 24, 2008.

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