Stories posted 11/2/2007
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Quiting Fielding Allen Dawgbrush

A startled Fielding Allen Dawgbrush spilled hot coffee from his Mickey Mouse mug all over himself when the phone on his *d…
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Suffer the Children

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The Breach

Giselle opened her mouth to speak but her breath caught in her throat.
There was a soft, wet scraping sound barely audible fr… -
love forever
i miss him so much
i can almost hear him saying “i love you.”
i can almost feel his arms around me.
i got to sleep crying
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Guidance (Daniel Gate)
Why did he always seem to be in more of a rush to get someplace on his day off than during the week? You’d think working as a…
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Those You Leave Behind (Pt. 1)

Simon turned around, facing an empty room. “Angela…I was…frak…time dilation…maybe hallucinations…” he muttered, collapsing to…
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Those You Leave Behind (Pt. 2)

Blake finally got his gun out, but his hands were shaky and his vision blurry. He raised the revolver as a figure entered the…
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THE DEVIL'S DINER
The Devil runs wild inside our minds, He feeds at our brain cells and lavishly he dines, You invite him inside and serve him …
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The Corpse
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Refitting the Pieces.

The mescaline was still affecting Simon and he felt so much, too much. Sadness, joy, confusion, bliss, fear and regret… mostl…
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Watercolor

“Oh,” your girlfriend breathes. She runs to the railing of the boat and leans on it. “I’ve never seen water these colors!”
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Just Us...

Eventually we were joined by my bandmates – God I what I wouldn’t give to go back change that moment. If only I had seen the …
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Everything Will Blow Pt. 2

“Are you all right?” It was the angelic falsetto voice of a child.
“You can see me?” I asked her, astonished. She looked at…
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What Once Was Frozen…

“What,” Angela stammered, “what are you talking about, Blake?”
Simon forced himself to stop rocking; he closed his eyes and …
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…Has Now Thawed.

“What are you talking about?” Angela asked again.
“This disease, this infection, comes from the Cocytus,” Blake calmly repli…
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Anticipation
Her breath tickled the back of my neck, sending strange sensations down my spine. Ordinarily, a woman breathing on my neck d…
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Full Circle
I work in a large glass box. It’s full of imitation office space, built in the 1960’s in the “international” style of archite…
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Ghost Chasing

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The Room
He sat on the edge of the bed, feet on the floor, head in his hands. He didn’t move much. Just the occasional shuffle of his …
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The Story Of The Book
First there was The Book. It was a great book, hailed as a new classic by critics and readers alike. It had no demographic, b…
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Lucy? {OTOC's Challenge}

For a few moments after he was gone, I just stood there, shell-shocked. My little puppy, the one we had had for almost my who…
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Mortal Coil... of Twine
There was a knock at the door. Janice skipped over and opened it. To her horror, there stood an apparition. A semi-transparen…
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Never Alone
The last time George was alone, he was two years old. The babysitter was more interested in her boyfriend than watching him, ...
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Beneath The Fog

A blood curdling scream only they could possess shoots from behind you, paralyzing most of your body with fear.
Your abdome…
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Industrial Grey Day

Justine always ate lunch with Carol. Carol was 43, a dumpy woman with a failing marriage and a kid in juvie. Justine enjoyed …
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Don't Feed The Animals

_Why, oh why, did I have to ignore his warning?
Brooks said don’t feed the animals, and he was right. He may be an allegedly … -
Behind The Scenes; Part 1

“Look, dad, I’m exhausted!”
The real tears liquefied the heavy makeup caked upon the young actors face, creating a pool of re… -
Behind The Scenes; Part 2

As usual, irritation soon turned into guilt as he looked into the overly injected and desperately stretched face of a former …
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Avoiding Fear Again

Nim’r heard the footsteps approaching and knew who it would be, so there was no surprise as Gideon stuck his head in through …
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My boyfriend
So there’s this guy. Of course right? It’s always about a guy.
Now, he’s not perfect. No one is. There are little things …
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Cursed Love

you are
my night
and my day,
but i do not know your face.
You are
my sun
and my moon
and my starlit sky,
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And none of what you hear

He blinked slowly, trying to regain focus. The futility of that particular exercise became immediately apparent. Hauling hard…
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Farewells

Stay with me,
stay with me,
i slap your face and shake you,
stay with me,
stay with me,
i’m desperately trying to wake you....
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Winners of the Lyric Challenge

Here are the winners for my Lyric Challenge:
First Place: Batak Beatrix, for her brilliant, inspired ficlet, “Reach Out …
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Welcome to Our Future
I am ready to reveal myself to the world. I’ve been preparing both myself and the world for this day. I was conceived on the …
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My Boyfriend Prequel

I met this boy, It always starts like that yano?
We met at the homecoming football game. I met him through my friends and we…
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Shopping for Her
I sighed. Then shivered.
Sixteen hundred. Well more than I had on me, probably more than I could get before closing time.
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The Fourteenth

Marten knew they were all gone before he got there. The trench had shown signs of a struggle, but certainly not enough for it…
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Run
Neither of us can remember why we started running. The first thing we remember is running out of the yard, pushing open the w…
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A Public Service Announcement For Ficlets (Please Read)
Hey Fellow Ficleteers!
I just thought that you might want to know that some random person is going around giving perfectly go… -
La Vie Avec Éclat
“Oh Agustus, she’s beautiful.”
Agustus smiled at the photograph of his newborn daughter, Scarlett. From the moment she was b…
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The Book

The fog temporarily lifted from my mind. I could think clearly once more. Anna and I made our way down the dark tunnel carefu…
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L'Hopital

Scarlet’s foot was in mid-air when a pair of high beams lit up her face.
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“Jeez. Is she up, yet?” Josiah looked at Holden. S… -
Illusions
You keep looking over your shoulder as you walk. Your heart just won’t stop racing, pounding your chest, and you feel your fo…
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Band Luck {scw(bd)ow challenge}

”#&%* off!” I screamed, throwing the tire iron and sucking on my bloody knuckles. The tire iron clanged off the highway and t…
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The Bluest Blue (VIII)

-Mr. Finley?
Brian realized that Darlene was staring at him with concern. He cleared his throat.
-No, nothing is wrong, Dar…
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The Price Must be Paid

“So, you did it?” A whispered male voice snapped me out of my reverie. “You sent him out?”
“Yes. I sent him out. Goodness, I…
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The Bluest Blue (IX)

Brian gave himself a mental shake and exhaled sharply.
-Whew! Gotta get yourself together, Brian. OK. OK. Everything is fi…
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The Bluest Blue (X)

The little girl’s blue eyes seemed to stare right through him, and Brian could feel the hairs at the back of his neck standin…
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I Will Help
Deep down inside
I know you cry
I’ve seen the scars
And I don’t have to ask why.Everything seems to be wrong
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One Bad Challenge Going Over [challenge!]
We’re not all good at everything; I’ve had to accept that. Me, I’m not good at making up challenges. But, in the spirit of cr…
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Friend or foe

Now, there are those who will fight this change. Those who do not understand. What is there really to understand? Things will…
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Watching (Defense Mechanism Challenge - THX0477)

Blood dripped from his nose again, and he wiped it away irritably. His rough leather work gloves had an earthy scent and tugg…
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Dark Lord of the Underwear
I sit near the back of the bus, and there is a guy colouring on his backpack. He’s obviously been working on it for quite som…
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bye bye girl
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Id, Ego & Super Ego

“You know you shouldn’t have taken that candy bar off the shelf, you have money, you should have paid for it, that was wrong …
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YodaOnCrack's Halloween Challenge Round 2 Vod/Podcasts

Round 2 of Yodaoncrack’s Halloween ficlet challenge is here, which includes the next 4 or so entries as podcasts.
http://vid…
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SEcond chance for stalker

The police werent getting out of the car. WHY WERENT THEY GETTING OUT OF THE CAR?
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Apologies to Shakespeare
Tamale, canned tamale, canned tamale
Crêpes in this pâté paste from plate to plate
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Snow

Snow was falling lightly but steadily as a young man strolled through the large city park. Covered in a long wool trench coat…
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A Melancholy Foundation

“But…can they…would….I,” he says as he thinks;He doesnt think it is the best idea, but it is the right choice, he think…
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Repression...

Lights blare; music pulses. Screaming echoes from all corners of the gymnasium, decked out with streamers. This is my first h…
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So close

I stand here today, facing my doom. The only thing separating me from freedom and death is this wall. There is a door nearby …
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haha caleb
ok so there once was this kid named Caleb and he had the biggest crush on this girl haha(me) any way this boy was only about …
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Like A Rock
A quick glance around the room proved fruitless; staring at the wallet didn’t seem to do anything either. The money simply wa…
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ASH
Don’t touch me. Don’t even breathe too hard. I’d tell you why, but you wouldn’t believe me. You look at me and you see just a…
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Just Want to Type. Not Even Worth Reading.
I messed this up. I had my safe-haven. I loved it, I still do. But I let him into it. I thought it’d be okay. It wasn’t.
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Just Too Selfish
i’ve realized that what i’ve always regretted is true;
im a spoiled brat…. all i care about is myself… im selfish
and se…