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Motorcycle Accident

by Stovohobo

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It all happened like slow motion, like those Discovery Channel clips of a frog snapping out its tongue to devour a fly.

First, the front wheel propelled him into the middle of the asphalt, in between a spiderweb of painted lines directing traffic. One SUV charged past the blood-red circle above it and kept coming into the center.

I’m mnot goign to die.

His wheel collided first with the grill of the monster, immediately snapping the chrome frame and popping the tire right off.

Peolpe dnot die from bike acicdntes – accidents.

As the front end of the motorcycle reshaped itself, the rest followed the path that the laws of physics had designated for it: straight into the side of the SUV . The helmet of the rider crumpled as it made contact with the door.

I’m – I’m ginog to die?

The SUV braked, but it only threw the motorcycle forward again, slamming it onto the hot road.

Pepoepl die motrcylce ACCIDENTS , tEY DO -

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Krulltar
Posted 2 months ago

first off, your spell checker must have had a hissy fit over this one.
2ndly…very well done, the miss spelling (or whatever that form of writing is called) did amazing job to give a slow motion effect to the events. bravo!
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invisibility_disability
Posted 2 months ago

very good…
although i don’t really understand the misspellingness…ness…ness. is it adding to the “slow-mo” effect?
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 2 months ago

Ok first let me say that this is one of the best stories i have ever read. Not on ficlets i mean ever, it is amazing. i mean brilliant. the words the letters the spelling you wield them like a zanpakto. second if you answer invisibilties question and reviel the true mind of the auther and it differs from what i took from it i will be crushed. so please don’t answer that.
sorry invis
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 2 months ago

This story makes me want to get a motorcycle and die on it right now!
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 2 months ago

did i mention it was awesome? cause it was
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 2 months ago

i mean freakin incredible.
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Eckhouse
Posted 2 months ago

An honestly brilliant piece. One of the few I’ve sat and re-read over again.
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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

The language in this is incredible. The purposeful misspelling is a technique I’ve never seen used before, and the crazy thing about this is that not only is is super creative but it tells a lesson in it, too. If I could give you ten stars, I would.
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 2 months ago

ok i had to read it again and show my wife she also said it was incredible.
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Stovohobo
Posted 2 months ago

All right, Mighty Joe. Calm down. =)
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And, by the way, telling me I’ve wield words like a zanpakto is probably the coolest compliment I’ve gotten…most likely because I don’t know what a zanpakto is. But it sounds pretty cool to…you know, wield.
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But thanks. And your motorcycle comment was funny, if a little scary. I have no part in it, for the record.
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One Time, One Chance
Posted 2 months ago

i think the misspellings were a fabulous idea;; they make the reader read over it again and make sure they know what the word is, giving it a slow-mo effect.
BRILLIANT .
=]
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SKermitgorf
Posted 2 months ago

Lets nit blame Stovo if Joe re enacts this ficlet.. ok it was good, the garbled thoughts of the rider… not to be mean, you’ve written hundreds far better.. enjoyed the slo mo—matrix feel of the flow.
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Jenunique
Posted 2 months ago

When I first started reading this I thought, “This is not Stovo’s writing. There are too many mistakes.” Then I realized they were purposeful mistakes. And I said to myself, “That little… GENIUS !!” :D Wonderful job.
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thebetweenspace
Posted 2 months ago

I keep finding myself coming back to this. I must have read it ten times, which is rare for me. I’ve come to appreciate the sense of fear and uncertainty the misspelled words create in the piece. Incredibly inventive use of language. Definitely one of the most creatively unique ficlets I’ve read.
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RainDance
Posted 2 months ago

Whoa, I didn’t get it at first. I love how the rider’s confidence fades so slowly but in reality it only takes a few seconds.
Simply mind-boggling.
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 2 months ago

MAN i am still blown away i just had one of my buddies over and i had to show him this story, a zanpakto(japanese for soul slayer) is a sword the shinigami (japanese for death god) carry to harvest the souls of the lost.
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Apostrophe
Posted 2 months ago

holy stripes batman! This story rendered a ton of comments. I echo what has already been said. I like the internal thoughts, and the shift therein. I totally got the spelling errors to illustrate the slow movement.. Very cool idea. You really get a sense of this story. It almost plays out in the back of your head.

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accident, bike, brake, crash, death, injury, motorcycle, rider, suv, vehicle

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Stovohobo

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

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“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 June 30, 2008.

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