Stories posted 10/24/2007

  • {Gumshoe challenge}Ladd & O'Hanley Detective Agency: Ladd Gets a Call :Part 1 Inspired by text

    by SKermitgorf 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    Parrish O’Hanley, dead a year, and still I hadn’t solved his murder. We had been searching for congresswoman Schweiz’s son.
    ...

  • A fortunate turn Inspired by text

    by m8ryx 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    A heavy hand. Too heavy to be momma’s as it hoists me roughly towards the sky. Another bolt of lightning silences my screamin…

  • Upon a flum

    by martybucko 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    Upon a flum

    Once upon a dreary ramtab
    Your rapid flangle untied low
    If it wasn’t for my wedgling bow
    Your dralo wouldn’t thl…

  • When I'm Rich Inspired by a photo

    by Snarky 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    When I’m rich, and I will be, I am going to have a library in my house. The entire room, floor, ceiling, shelves, are all goi…

  • The Journey Before The Longer Journey Inspired by text

    by One Time, One Chance 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    “Calm down. Everything’s fine now.”

    I was ready to scream and yell some more, until I realized that it was doing nothing – n…

  • The Rain Came Down Inspired by text

    by Mycroft 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    It’s raining again.
    I’m here, behind the window
    Watching the raindrops.

    Each one is a wish
    That runs, hopeful, down the glas…

  • Purple, Color of Royalty Inspired by text

    by J.B. Williams 11 months ago 3 out of 5 stars

    “Royalty.” Memon began. “That is what this color and our emblem represents. Our divine right to rule. It is not the color of …

  • Jealous eyes (The betrayal challenge)

    by The_Count 11 months ago 2 out of 5 stars

    Some would say that the root of all evil is hatred, or a heart that’s gone astray. Some would say that hate and love both sta…

  • Bitter Heart Inspired by text

    by horrorfan13 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    He’d finally gotten the courage. The courage to walk up to her, to look her in the eye, to ask. And miracle of miracles, she …

  • Secretly I Want to Bury in the Yard, the Grave Remains of a Friendship Scarred Inspired by text

    by Saint Chuck 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Secretly I want to bury in the yard, the grave remains of a friendship scarred. But why I don’t, I’m not sure. Friendships li…

  • In the Backseat Inspired by a photo

    by someday_93 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    She was there, in the backseat, all along. They had forgotten about her, having stolen the money—their little captive girl…

  • Do it just to do it Mature

    by Ms Kit Kat 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

  • Heartbreak Hospital Inspired by text

    by Stovohobo 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Doctors stared, mouths agape beneath the sick pink of their surgical masks. Finally, one nurse regained her composure and nea…

  • A Relic of Home Inspired by text

    by someday_93 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Building Four, Room 23 is barren on Miranda’s side, the left one. The bed has been carefully made up with white sheets, but t…

  • A New Autobiography Inspired by text

    by someday_93 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    The classes at Wash Academy weren’t at all like the ones Miranda had had at her public school at home. They were small, only …

  • November Rain {Lyric Challenge} Inspired by text

    by Tiggerstripn2 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    “Do you need some time own your own;
    do you need some time all alone”     ?
    What are you saying he cried with his heart in his…

  • Germany to America Inspired by text

    by Mask By The Moon 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    We decided to go on foot, well, Shade did. He could get there faster than any car, and there was no running speed limit. We b…

  • I Deserve To Be Put In My Place Inspired by text

    by Mistress Elsha Hawk 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    Yesterday, my supervisor was in meetings all day. I was left with some of her work. But not alone, I had a co-worker saddled …

  • My Place, For Now, Is Here Inspired by text

    by Mistress Elsha Hawk 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    Tomorrow I get to actually see one of my ideas come to fruition!

    After my supervisor came back into the office, my co-worke…

  • Departure

    by Pat J 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    Now the water was knee-deep, warm as blood. Tiny creatures swam in it, brushing their calves, tickling their toes.

    She looke…

  • perspective

    by roblef 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    How does acting in retaliation solve anything? why is it that you continue to churn the already stirred pot into a fine, self…

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

    by Stovohobo 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

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

  • The Plight of a Hopeless and Hapless Eleven Year Old Ficlet Writer

    by Mask By The Moon 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    With a lack of inspiration, I look to my left, through the glass back door. Rain, sweet, beautiful rain. A phrase comes to mi…

  • Fleeing the Present to the Past Inspired by text

    by THX 0477 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    With a knife twist of self loathing Paul looked down at his boutonniere, a blush of pink on his black tux. In disgust he tore…

  • Obscure Physics 101 (Stovohobo's Challenge) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    “Today, we will be discussing the North American system of weights, avoirdupois.” Dr. Gimlet adjusted his boutonnière, a …

  • Standoff Inspired by text

    by Laine the Grey 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    Her eyes burned red as she stared at her “brother”. “Damien, rules aren’t everything.” Bijoti’s chin remained high.
    “And what…

  • Lies revealed Inspired by text

    by User 5877 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    A hand, broken and twisted. This is all I see when I look back to see what tripped me. Even now, it twitches with a sickening…

  • love is

    by Dr. Lew 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Love is lightening.
    You know when it hits. I’m not going to go out in the middle of a field during a rainstorm to have it hit…

  • Flying Lessons (1)

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    She was going to see him again. Now. Now. The lost years heavy as pebbles in her belly. Knocking against each other, drivin…

  • Flying Lessons (2) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Sometimes she would pull out her old albums long after Paul had fallen asleep. Drag them out of the cobwebs and stir the memo…

  • Chill Inspired by text

    by RunningWithScissors 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    “How was your day?” Marl asked over his slurpee. She held out her hand and he passed the sweating cheap cup over. She took a …

  • Flying Lessons (3) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Now Kate is old enough to recognize it for what it was. A transition period, a momentary lapse. It was never love. Not really…

  • Flying Lessons (4) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    She had been just eighteen when she met him in FSU, still figuring out the world, still passionate about everything. He’d per…

  • A Promise That Smells Like Watermelon Incense Inspired by text

    by RunningWithScissors 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    ”... I’ll try to be better, I promise.”
    Neither of them were good at these types of conversations.
    “I met a girl today,” he …

  • Flying Lessons (5) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    She left the paintings strewn all over the apartment. Imagining this feeling was not unlike one she’d have if she was taking …

  • Flying Lessons (6) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    The morning of the wedding she donned her gown before sunrise. It seemed fitting somehow. Symbolic. All the tiny buttons up h…

  • Flying Lessons (7) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Fifteen years later, she is 37 now. And happy. Or at least she thinks she is, which is one and the same thing, when you reall…

  • Flying Lessons (8) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    But meanwhile she was remembering: all those nights he came home and picked up the paintings after she was asleep. Sticking t…

  • Flying Lessons (9) Inspired by text

    by Ana Cristina 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    She smiled, putting one hand on his shoulder. The gray strands in his hair have made him look noble somehow. Like a sad king….

  • The Sky

    by BfE 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    Underneath the sky
    You and me were
    Staring at the stars
    In each others eyes
    The clock struck 2
    Our hearts struck love
    You an…

  • Time Inspired by text

    by BfE 11 months ago 0 out of 5 stars

    The air we shared was blessed
    But the air we shared was cold
    I could see every breath
    In the crisp cool air
    The crickets chir…

  • looks like a mascot Inspired by text

    by gowziproductions 11 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    “What did you say squirt?” A thing shaped like a mascot presented itself from the bleachers, bounced off a mini-tramp, execut…

  • Escape To Saftey Inspired by text

    by writeAlot 11 months ago 3 out of 5 stars

    Kevin landed on his feet. The pain was almost unbearable. His feet stung but he moved on. He had too. He ran across the open …

  • Boo! Inspired by text

    by .:band baby:. 11 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    It’s that time of year again. The time when I usually stay inside. I really don’t know why everyone enjoys it so much. I have…