Stories posted 3/7/2007
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The End

The end of the world was nigh and we all knew it. It wasn’t something we didn’t see coming. They foretold it for years – we’d…
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The second ficker
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Is it soup yet?
The developer scratched his head. “Almost. We can handle logins.”
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snowball in hell

It was a bit cold for making snowballs so we needed to dig down a foot or so to reach packing snow. We had been throwing fro…
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snowball in hell (part 2)

We had found some pretty clever ways to hit cars without the owners finding us. The best and most risky was dropping them fro…
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snowball in hell (part 3)

It was a few weeks later when we heard that the owner, of the house we were throwing from, had died in his sleep and it was o…
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The End
The End
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Snowball in Hell (part 4)

The death of the owner of the house had long passed from my mind in the weeks that followed the melting snow. In the newly wa…
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What the?
We were all teasing eachother it was the ghost of the dead man. It looked just liked him. However, we all knew that dead mean…
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Too long...
It had been a long time since he had done it.
He sat at the table, leaning his head back to stare at the ceiling and counti…
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Fingers
He looked again at his fingers, not believing how old he was. Somehow, it appeared that he had 39 1/2 fingers on each hand. H…
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Sweet Carolina, Part I
First off, know that I hate coffee.
What’s more, I hate what coffee shops have done to coffee. Say what you will about the…
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What is Ficlets?
Once upon a time there was a new site called Ficlets. I didn’t know exactly what this site was going to be all about, but sin…
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Questions
I knew she was trouble the moment her silhouette slid across the dusty glass of my office door. I’m a private eye. I’m used t…
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No pants, no problem?
Don’t get me wrong – generally, I’m 100% for the wearing of pants, but that day I just had to take a stand. Honestly – who wa…
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How Not To Be in an Airlock
“I still don’t know why you need me in the air lock.”
“It’s like I told you. Something spilled, and we need you to clean it …
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Futility?

Here I am again. November 2004. I don’t trust the rest of the country to vote for the right guy. But I will try anyway. Even …
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Getting the bugs out

I arrived, eager to begin, but to my surprise, I was greeted with a friendly, but unexpected error message. “Still working th…
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Buster the cat hacker

Hello, my name is Buster. People tell me I look like that Sundance Head guy on American Idol. I’m pretty tired today because …
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Against All Odds

Here I am again. October 2003. Scanning the sky. Hoping. Praying. Gambling. Wondering if the odds are with us, or against us….
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Generation X
Living in a small seaside town, in the wrong end of England, he felt a strong sense that life was happening, only to other pe…
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KITTY SUSHI FOR SALE

Be the first one on your street to try the new creation of Chef Homero Cantu. Kitty Sushi.
Kitty Sushi is made of live, sma…
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She had never been there before
She had never been there before. It was so… loud and bright. So much more than her senses could assimilate. Definitely …
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Rain, Coffee, and The Talk
He sunk into the large chair. He sat there looking out the window and watching the rain fall ever so slowly. It was like time…
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The Red Tree

As a child, the summer was always one of my favorite times. I would go to my Aunt Sharon’s house to play with my cousin Billy…
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Desperate for Money

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How Not To Be in an Airlock
Damn!
My high school guidance counsellor warned me of such possibilities years ago given my academic performance… or lack …