Stories posted 11/2/2007

  • Quiting Fielding Allen Dawgbrush Inspired by text

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

  • Suffer the Children Mature Inspired by text

  • The Breach Inspired by text

    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
    ...

  • 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…

  • Those You Leave Behind (Pt. 1) Inspired by text

    Simon turned around, facing an empty room. “Angela…I was…frak…time dilation…maybe hallucinations…” he muttered, collapsing to…

  • Those You Leave Behind (Pt. 2) Inspired by text

    Blake finally got his gun out, but his hands were shaky and his vision blurry. He raised the revolver as a figure entered the…

  • 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 …

  • The Corpse Mature

  • Refitting the Pieces. Inspired by text

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

  • Watercolor Inspired by a photo

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

    ...

  • Just Us... Inspired by text

    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 …

  • Everything Will Blow Pt. 2 Inspired by text

    “Are you all right?” It was the angelic falsetto voice of a child.

    “You can see me?” I asked her, astonished. She looked at…

  • What Once Was Frozen… Inspired by text

    “What,” Angela stammered, “what are you talking about, Blake?”

    Simon forced himself to stop rocking; he closed his eyes and …

  • …Has Now Thawed. Inspired by text

    “What are you talking about?” Angela asked again.

    “This disease, this infection, comes from the Cocytus,” Blake calmly repli…

  • Anticipation

    Her breath tickled the back of my neck, sending strange sensations down my spine. Ordinarily, a woman breathing on my neck d…

  • 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…

  • Ghost Chasing Mature Inspired by a photo

  • 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 …

  • 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…

  • Lucy? {OTOC's Challenge} Inspired by text

    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…

  • 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…

  • Never Alone

    The last time George was alone, he was two years old. The babysitter was more interested in her boyfriend than watching him, ...

  • Beneath The Fog Inspired by text

    A blood curdling scream only they could possess shoots from behind you, paralyzing most of your body with fear.

    Your abdome…

  • Industrial Grey Day Inspired by text

    Justine always ate lunch with Carol. Carol was 43, a dumpy woman with a failing marriage and a kid in juvie. Justine enjoyed …

  • Don't Feed The Animals Inspired by text

    _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 Inspired by text

    “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 Inspired by text

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

  • Avoiding Fear Again Inspired by text

    Nim’r heard the footsteps approaching and knew who it would be, so there was no surprise as Gideon stuck his head in through …

  • 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 …

  • Cursed Love Inspired by text

    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,
    but i have yet to fi…

  • And none of what you hear Inspired by text

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

  • Farewells Inspired by text

    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.

    ...

  • Winners of the Lyric Challenge Inspired by text

    Here are the winners for my Lyric Challenge:

    First Place: Batak Beatrix, for her brilliant, inspired ficlet, “Reach Out …

  • 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 …

  • My Boyfriend Prequel Inspired by text

    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…

  • 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.
    Si…

  • The Fourteenth Inspired by text

    Marten knew they were all gone before he got there. The trench had shown signs of a struggle, but certainly not enough for it…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Book Inspired by text

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

  • L'Hopital Inspired by text

    Scarlet’s foot was in mid-air when a pair of high beams lit up her face.
    ~
    “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…

  • Band Luck {scw(bd)ow challenge} Inspired by text

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

  • The Bluest Blue (VIII) Inspired by text

    -Mr. Finley?

    Brian realized that Darlene was staring at him with concern. He cleared his throat.

    -No, nothing is wrong, Dar…

  • The Price Must be Paid Inspired by text

    “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…

  • The Bluest Blue (IX) Inspired by text

    Brian gave himself a mental shake and exhaled sharply.

    -Whew! Gotta get yourself together, Brian. OK. OK. Everything is fi…

  • The Bluest Blue (X) Inspired by text

    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…

  • 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
    Nothing wants …

  • 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…

  • Friend or foe Inspired by text

    Now, there are those who will fight this change. Those who do not understand. What is there really to understand? Things will…

  • Watching (Defense Mechanism Challenge - THX0477) Inspired by text

    Blood dripped from his nose again, and he wiped it away irritably. His rough leather work gloves had an earthy scent and tugg…

  • 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…

  • bye bye girl Mature

  • Id, Ego & Super Ego Inspired by text

    “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 …

  • YodaOnCrack's Halloween Challenge Round 2 Vod/Podcasts Inspired by text

    Round 2 of Yodaoncrack’s Halloween ficlet challenge is here, which includes the next 4 or so entries as podcasts.

    http://vid…

  • SEcond chance for stalker Inspired by text

    The police werent getting out of the car. WHY WERENT THEY GETTING OUT OF THE CAR?
    I tried to breathe carefully as my stalk…

  • Apologies to Shakespeare

    Tamale, canned tamale, canned tamale
    Crêpes in this pâté paste from plate to plate
    Chew the mashed salad bowl of ricotta thym…

  • Snow Inspired by text

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

  • A Melancholy Foundation Inspired by text

    “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…

  • Repression... Inspired by text

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

  • So close Inspired by a photo

    I stand here today, facing my doom. The only thing separating me from freedom and death is this wall. There is a door nearby …

  • 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 …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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…