Stories posted 4/17/2007

  • Nuts To You, And Your Mother! Inspired by text

    by T. Prehenderis about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    “I think,” she said distractedly, “that it’s ‘twitch left whiskers thrice, scratch right ear with hind foot, flick tail and s…

  • Yellowed Out Inspired by text

    by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 stars

    She drove for a couple of miles, barely missing three pedestrians, two dogs and a chipmunk before realizing she couldn’t see …

  • The Anomalous Grouch

    by l.m.orchard about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    The bridge shuttered and rocked, crew members clinging to their consoles. Behind the Weapons Officer, a conduit suddenly vent…

  • The Last Roughneck's Welcome Inspired by text

    by uselessness about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    I can hear the storm raging outside but it sounds more distant now, muffled. Have we arrived? Surely we’re not in the station…

  • book holds the answers..yea. right.. Inspired by text

    by Susan Holder is terrific about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 stars

    I skimmed through the pages, not making sense of most of it. “What is this book?”, I asked.

    “That book is the most prophetic…

  • Pursuit

    by Cobweb about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    I followed closely on Anso’s heels. Or at least so I hoped. As a Condottiere, I could have had any of my soldiers pursue th…

  • The Last Roughneck Suits Up Inspired by text

    by uselessness about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    I wake up on a small but very comfortable mattress in one of the station’s cabins. It would seem this is my new bedroom. My h…

  • The Big One-Oh-Oh

    by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    This is it, the final proof of my addiction.

    Can I resist the urge, the physical need to tap fingers against keys, the adren…

  • A Call to Himself becomes A Bogus Journey Inspired by text

    by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    As Sam was about to knock on Amy’s front door, he noticed through the open curtains his past self sitting on the couch with A…

  • The Last Roughneck Reports In Inspired by text

    by uselessness about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    If my cabin feels a bit claustrophobic, the mess hall is quite the opposite. Undoubtedly the most relaxing place on Turbine S…

  • Writing in the Digital Age

    by uselessness about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 stars

    1,025 characters.

    1,025 characters!

    What am I to do?

    Let’s… revise.

    Aha, it says “large.” Well that’s extraneous. Backs…

  • Here we go. Again? Inspired by text

    by The Dod about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    Sam had no way of knowing what happened “before”, since it’s impossible to remember things that didn’t happen yet.
    He went ba…

  • Falling (in love) Inspired by text

    by Knight Random about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    This wasn’t he first time my powers had given out. I’d faced the usual—reality warps, psychic blocks, that sort of thing. Bu…

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    by Splindel about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    serenade of destruction,
    will bring about the end,
    a path full of blood and bone,
    no savior here to send,

    of fire and ash, s…