Ficlets | Stories posted 3/20/2007

Stories posted 3/20/2007

Halloween

by jarod about 1 year ago

“There’s always next Halloween,” he typed back.

“True,” she agreed. “And maybe by then they’ll be a little older and my trap…
Hello, Kitty

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

“It’s a cat.”

“No it isn’t, it’s a lion.”

“Nah, it’s a cat. Look at it lying there, it’s a cat.”

“Uh, uh. Something that b…
Double Dilemma

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

I walked away from Sweeper. This didn’t sit well on my stomach, marauder or not, killing humans like this just wasn’t me.

I …
Desert Showdown

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

I ducked into a cleft between two rocks. If they hadn’t seen me yet, I might be able to pick some of them off before they cou…
I Am Empty Like the Ocean

by Bearded Jon about 1 year ago

I am empty like the ocean.

I am turbulent wind swept roiling foam. I am the dead calm of doldrums. I am the giant rolling sw…
Prophecy

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

From time to time, I am called upon to prophesy, to speak in tongues.

My body is my temple—but what is a temple but an empty…
Scratchings on a Cell Wall

by Tim Keating about 1 year ago

I don’t know who might see this. Nor can I guess how much of it I will get out. My tools are inferior. For a stylus, I have o…
Let there be Spam

by Kamalani about 1 year ago

“Why do my universes always come back to me?” the Spam asked.

With a mind deft from an eternity of practice, he hurled the m…
Wary of Mary

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

I followed her from the bar, my head swimming a little. From the martini? It had been unusually strong. For a few moments the…
Untitled

by ShadowWolf about 1 year ago

An electric blue blast of energy flashes across the black expanse of space, silently exploding against the hull of a massive …
How To Beat A One Upper

by Kamalani about 1 year ago

I had him beat. But could I go through with it?

The handle was slippery with my sweat, my heart raced.

I looked him in the …
If you want to look for weapons, click here.

by Kamalani about 1 year ago

You look around you at the clean circle you’ve made in the dusty room. There are a myriad of cabinets and shelves, untouched …
Toe

by QuakeDisruptor about 1 year ago

“FOOD!” it bellowed.

Gavin had grown weary of this constant bellowing. Ever since his big toe had begun to evolve, he was co…
Deadly Game

by QuakeDisruptor about 1 year ago

The game show host continued his usual script of catchphrases and mildly risqué humour.

The audience, stimulated by cue-card…
The Visitor

by QuakeDisruptor about 1 year ago

As the temperature fell, Amy knew that the demon had returned.

She could practically taste the hatred and malice that filled…
Bad Blood

by Nick about 1 year ago

Blake’s hand convulsed, blood loss taking a rapid toll. His fingers grazed his carved oak blade. His vision was beginning to …
The Wild

by ConstantsorroW about 1 year ago

Jenna hid.
She hid alot. This time it was humans. She knew what they were, she’d seen them before. One of the males she used …
Harvested

by QuakeDisruptor about 1 year ago

I’m waking up.

Drowsy.

Intense pain.

Freezing cold – bath of ice.

Red. Blood. My blood.

Why?

Mind reeling, searching fo…
There is No Time for Sleep

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

The sharp sound of rocks against the window woke Nick from sound sleep with a start. He sat up in bed, blearily staggered out…
Best Laid Plans

by smoerke about 1 year ago

The world was an intense light that wouldn’t abate. Tala tried to rub her eyes and found that her hands were tied behind her …
Transforming the Ocean

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

There was a time before, between the glowing swirling dust of creation and now. The world hung in the balance of incredible f…
His Blood Ran Thin

by rkalajian about 1 year ago

It was raining. I hate the rain.

The body was still warm, blood running thin like a cheap marinara. His face was contorted…..
Day Two: Preparations

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

The roads were clogged full and there’s no way that they could get out of the city at this point. Their apartment door was ba…
Stepping Stones

by Shakespeare's 1003rd Monkey about 1 year ago

“…And when a man is tired of London, He .. .Is … Tired … of … Life. I thank you. That’s the end of the tour.”
The 2 wom…
What Momma Did to Irving

by Scix about 1 year ago

Everyone agreed Irving was a waste of space.

And by everyone I mean Momma, for whatever she decreed, we all believed, whethe…
Flat Boyfriend

by Kirkytt about 1 year ago

I sent the photo in, so I guess it is kind of my fault.

My Flat Boyfriend™ had been in the house for less than a week wh…
about

by seedee about 1 year ago

I’m Ianys.
It’s my first day here.
It’s a strange place for me. I can see no one. I can feel other people around me. Why I …
A Dream of Becky

by Scix about 1 year ago

Thing is, guys like me, when we dream, we dream hard.

With all that was going on, you’d think I’d dream of blind men, murder…
Alan and the OpenID

by Matt Lee about 1 year ago

One fine day, Alan was playing with OpenID, so he could break all the hard work David and Matt had been doing. He stumbled ac…
Sown

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

It was said that when the street children disappeared, it was because they were stolen for their organs. I never knew if I be…
Briefest ex-husband: Seven

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

I found a pretty nice guy next: smart, down-to-earth, and he knew how to make a girl laugh. He didn’t mind me wanting to put …
Almost Husband Numero Ocho

by ConstantsorroW about 1 year ago

The next one well… We never married but I was sooo head over heals with him.
It was an internet relationship at first, but …
How Not To Be The First Serial Killer In Space

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

The first serial killer in space looked around his new spaceship proudly and went straight to the control room. After a frenz…
WorldWide Wruff

by ConstantsorroW about 1 year ago

Current Mood: Hungry
Current Music: Beatles – Hard Days Night

I know a few faithful blogreaders will believe anything I tell…
The BlogDog

by theWallflower about 1 year ago

Undoubtedly, you have a few questions at this point. How do you type your blog entries? How do you understand English? These …
Numbers Game

by There Is No Cat about 1 year ago

“Dva. Nul. Chetyri. Dva. Devyat.”

His pencil scratched the piece of paper. The signal on the radio was strong tonight.

“Tri…
Cliff of Wonder

by Chief CrazyBear about 1 year ago

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Lenny looked down… way down. “How did she do that?” he wondered as the wind buffeted h…
The Lonely Whoosh of Space

by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago

“Captain, we’ve got a hole the size of an asteroid near Quadrant 25,” said Bill Veruck. “Captain?”

The Captain, the very man…
Ex-husband Nine

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

Number Nine?

Well!

It’s not as if I don’t mind a little fetish, I mean, so he was into hockey. Hey lots of guys are into h…
Birth of the Firefox, Part 4

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

The idea that complex neural networks could create self-awareness had been a theory since Heinlein’s _The Moon is a Harsh Mis…
Dinner

by Scimon about 1 year ago

“Where’s the rabbit?”
“What rabbit?”
“The dinner rabbit, the one I got from the butchers this morning. That rabbit.”
“Is it w…
In the Beginning

by Ed about 1 year ago

First there was emptiness.

Then one woke up and he created another. For a long time they contemplated one another. They rea…
Day Five: Silence

by Bafooligan about 1 year ago

The silence was deafening. Sure there were noises; my mates playing cards in the next room to pass the time, the occasional …
She loves me she loves me not

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

The gunshots brought the outlying Marauders running my way. I managed to down three of them before Grumpy, the leader, got in…
Birth of the Firefox, Part 5

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

The Firefox matured at lightspeed. She learned English (and French, and Spanish, and every other language for which there was…
Exorating the Inexorable

by Marc G. about 1 year ago

“So, how long do you think you can keep me here?”

“Until your trial.”

“Which would be when?”

“When we arrive.”

“Yes, abou…
Rise and Fall of the Garden Path

by Proto about 1 year ago

Just replace standard bricks or pavers with our
completely self-contained SunBricks.

Each SunBrick contains a nascent AI …
A St. Pat's Mugging - Part 2.5

by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago

“Doesn’t surprise me,” said the policeman. “I’ve dealt with these types in the past. Ruthless buggers.”

“Really?” said Ted, ...
There's Something In My Closet

by Jnova about 1 year ago

Dear Mom and Dad,

I’m writing you this letter so you know what happened to me when that thing in my closet finally eats me.
...
You still believe in that?

by Jnova about 1 year ago

Dear Son,

You’re thirteen. Grow a pair.

Dad

(Or I will put something in your closet!)
The Photographator

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

I was going out to cover the new robotics expo at the convention center. It promised to be an interesting experience, full of…
It's a Third Party (and I'll Cry if I Want To)

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

I woke up inside an automedic, manacled to the bed while the surgical prostheses worked on me. I recognized the muzzy-headedn…
Dicey Situation

by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

It was another ordinary day, and I was bored. I was due to go over to a friend’s house for dinner later, but at the moment I …
Sea Fever

by CyberPunkGirl about 1 year ago

This morning I want to Be. At the beach. Near the ocean. With my camera. With my songs. Whispering. Singing. Talking to the o…
Lost Appetite

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

“I…I can’t eat you,” the dragon said. “Not now.”

“Can’t eat me?” the girl stamped her foot, glared at him. “Not good enoug…
Cliff of Wonder: River of Salvation

by Proto about 1 year ago

. . . and saw, and saw. The sky. The horizon. The brink of the canyon. The cliff’s vertical veined walls—flashing past, ye…
The Inscrutable Box

by Bonkabonka about 1 year ago

“Don’t know. When the box got wet, the writing ran. Doesn’t help that the light down here is really crummy.”

Roy reached bac…
Appetizing Argument

by Throat Wolf about 1 year ago

“How about if I pretended not to want to be eaten?”

“Yes, but…what?”

“You know, a little roleplay? I’m like ‘Oh, noes, a …
Numbers Game, part II

by Proto about 1 year ago

“Hey, lady, watch it!” the waiter growled as he nudged past her in the narrow aisle. She had expected snobbery, but this plac…
Ranshel Point

by Dani about 1 year ago

I am an island in a land of giants.

Not enough people are ever worried about these giants, these tempermental, fickle creatu…
Land Shark

by kwatz about 1 year ago

Ed had a drink with dinner. Everyone at the table did. But he wasn’t drunk. He hadn’t been drunk since college, ever since “t…
Parents Have Closets, Too

by pinhead about 1 year ago

Dear Frightened Child,

I had planned on eating you last night. My carving knife was sharpened and my favorite bib was freshl…
A Zombie Memoir

by Ed about 1 year ago

Outside of Traverse City in the dark of the moon on the sixth of June in a Kenworth pulling logs a figure stepped out of the …
Compson Carbomb

by gabbagabbaghoul about 1 year ago

Quentin was not assured by the sound of the silent field; the field filled with the passions of his youth and the unctuous dr…
Bunny

by pinhead about 1 year ago

“You do know what I can do with these ears, don’t you?” she asked with coy smile.

I didn’t answer.

Of course I knew, but ho…
The Urban Jungle

by Midgard about 1 year ago

“Boss, it’s Sam. I don’t think I’m going to make it back to the
office.”

“What do you mean not make it back? I sent you out…
My Husbands Today

by ConstantsorroW about 1 year ago

So where are all my ex-husbands now?
After I… disposed of them, I took them to a taxidermist. I paid him alot not to tell a…
Doomed

by Uncle Sam about 1 year ago

This was it. We’d been fighting our way deeper and deeper into the facility, too panicked to contemplate that we might not ma…
When the World Falls Apart (Ficlet)

by Ms. Spider about 1 year ago
No Problem

by Uncle Sam about 1 year ago

The facility has been particularly busy the last few days. A lot more of those security guys coming in the middle of the nigh…
The Janitor of Souls

by PixelFish about 1 year ago

Jake Laments was born on a Thursday morning in the Powell Street MUNI station. His panting mother clutched the hands of two h…
Down an Up Elevator

by Uncle Sam about 1 year ago

“Err, buddy…”
I waved in its face. It – he – turned to me in response. His eyes were piercing.
“I was just wondering, you k…
Noble Creatures

by Incrediblecain about 1 year ago

You, Lord Corvinus are a fool! For days we feasted on the blood of our enemies, all the while starving yourself. “It doesn’t …
The Urban Jungle Office

by kwatz about 1 year ago

“Sam, the printer is out of toner. I need you to run down to Office World and get a new cartridge.”

Sam nearly jumped out of…
Cute Cuisine

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

“So, uhm, if I ate you how would you like it done?”

“Pardon?”

“Well, would you like to be fried, roasted or fricasseed?”

”...
Cliff of Wonder: Elevator of Air

by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago

... that he was falling much more slowly than one would expect, and that in fact the closer that he approached the river, the…
Death takes a working lunch

by Some Guy about 1 year ago

It hadn’t always been that way, of course, but the longer Jason thought about it the harder it became to remember a time when…
Time to Dance - Zombie Style

by Uncle Sam about 1 year ago

This probably wasn’t the best place to be. The parking garage seemed like a good idea, but now that we were here, we could se…
Monument - Continued

by Umlaut about 1 year ago

Quickly, the nanomachines spread across the tortured lanscape. Those that fell on rock began to transform the minerals into s…
The Romance Bombed

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

“I won’t waste time,” she said. “My name is Maius. My people require your help.”

“Require?” I replied, with just enough ange…
The Monkey Business Case

by Sean about 1 year ago

“The monkeys told me I’d find you here,” Jackson said.

“My father always told me not to trust anyone you pay in fruit,” Lowe…
The Knowledge

by Kirkytt about 1 year ago

London is a woman, she has her rhythms, her daily inhalations and exhalations of people and cars, her longer cycles of decay …

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