Stories posted 3/27/2008
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I Can't Wait to be _Her Hero_

Its safe to say now that she is mine, and I am happy to say that I am hers. If there is one word to discribe her it is cute...
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Hunted in The Land of Nod
He woke with a start from the nightmare. Creatures wreathed in darkness hunting him, devouring the universe.
He groaned and …
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Give Chase

He was a machine.
A machine, Henry was a machine. Rebecca shook herself—behind the veil that hid his face was not flesh a…
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Camera

I wonder how many lives this camera has captured. How many generations its been passed down through. All the things it has se…
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The Record Spins

As this record spins growing in sound my mind takes ease. I haven’t felt that in a while, oh how I love this sound. It takes …
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Rose

Oh, can you imagine what you are and can be? Your so beautiful. It kills me to see you sad. The white falling on you. If only…
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The Rain

When it rains, the world cries. The darkness is allowed to rise above the surface, come out of hiding.
Maybe, it’s because …
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Traffic
Ok this is my ABC Poem…The format is that the first four lines of each stanza has to start with letters in alphabetical ord…
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The Freakishly Small Thing

What was it? It was tiny! So much smaller than me! Weird… I’m usually the small one around. Wait, imagine how small it woul…
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Summer Night
Ok, here is another poem from school. I had to use a simley every other line, and it had to ryme. And I ahd to use “ants in h…
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Flag
This is my symbolism poem…It was for school…
In the 1700s thirteen stars stood
Symbolizing freedom and victory
Bloodshed… -
Fickle
Ok, yet another poem from school. Author’s Choice this time.
Fickle
Just sitting here.
Trying to think of a poem.
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A Dancer's Best Friend

Ok this is my symbolism poem from school.
A Dancer’s Best Friend
Every dancer’s pointe shoes
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And Her Name Is Emma.... (chapter 5)

Without hesitation Emma lunged from her bed and into the lounge room. There was no denying it; Mary was gone along with Emma’...
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Mindless Chit-chat

“So, I heard that you can come with me, am I right?” Shawn said, sitting down down on the bench. He patted the seat next to h…
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The Hospital

Jeremy opened up his eyes, and then squinted them. This was because he was in a white rooom with bright lights. “Grandson!” a…
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Message Sent Successfully

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Buffered

Miraculously there was little loss of life. The buffer absorbed most of the impact. Created years ago in order to make spacef…
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(Ficlet CL Challenge): The Real Heroes

I watched the show right along with you. Heroes was my favorite. I couldn’t wait for Monday to roll around. Then it all bec…
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Seagram's Education
It was nowhere near the first time I drank, or the first time I drank in excess, that started in High School and even had som…
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Surviving With a Boy

I awoke to him looking up at me once again. This time he was shaking me to get up. I am so thirsty. I stood up.
Me: What?
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Hope

“It’s gonna be awesome.” I mused. “But you have to calm down first.”
“Jason, you don’t understand.” Parker began. “She hears…
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Oh, You Didn't!

“Oh, you didn’t!” my mother said.
I looked at the copy of the World Weekly News in my hand. “Well, why not?” I asked her. _C…
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Fade

Well, I’m still pretty much sitting at home, extremely quiet….
In my depression, I started to ignore my friends as well as…
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Revenge

“Son, we need to talk.”
I looked up from my books, calmly put down my pen, and said, “Okay, the only time you two call me ’s…
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End It

Dante waved goodbye and run over to his house. As soon as soon as he stopped, he whipped out his cell phone and called Gabby….
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Quick Kiss

I never really liked Nathan; even now I don’t like him. I miss Tyler more and more each day…but he never seems to talk to m…
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The Meat Job

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The Good Shepherd

The good shepherd was armed to the teeth.
_Even if I never avenge my beating, these dirty cops will get what they have com…
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No More Friday Nights
Dry mouth is a misnomer after you’ve had your last swig of beer. Skunk mouth too base; Slack-jawed: your face.
No holds are …
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Why and Goodbye
Wasted days and wasted nights
I cant do this anymore.
No more tears and no more fights.
And still I am not sure.
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Marauder's Lecture

“First things first,” he said as I got in and closed the door. “Information about our ops is on a need-to-know basis. You’re …
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The Bag...
“Aw, great,” Kevin Kravitz spoke. He was my best friend, and had admirable, if not godly, intelligence. “I got voted for the …
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My One World (the worldly challenge)

my world is my heart. It’s one for all the living, breathing people and plants and animals, insects, the ugly, the beauty, an…
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Nightmares Always Come First

Sora sat in the garden, listening to some music. But something felt wrong. She took out the earphones and listened carefully….
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My One World (the worldly challenge)

It was summer when I visited the homestead. it took me fifteen years to finally go home. It wasn’t even a good voluntary “com…
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A Simple Mourning

It had all seemed like the same day all over again.
I couldn’t get away. It would just stay right there by my side.The sun …
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Critters In The Fierce Of The Night
“Do you love me Eric?”
“Joan what kind of question is that, of course I do and no one will get in the way of that.”
Eric an…
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The Closing Bulletin

“It’s not happening,” said Seb as he walked into the pub. He’d assumed Mark would be sat in his usual seat, pint in hand, try…
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Silence in the Gray
I sat on my couch, looking for something to do. I looked up at the skylight in my room. The sky was consumed in a world of gr…
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The Return of the Murderman
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Hideaway Happy Hovel

My eyelids creaked open, letting in a searing amount of light in. It was seven o’clock in the evening, but my eyes registered…
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A stranger in my wold (The worldly challenge)

It was an odd feelings. Being surrounded with peole that i haven’t seen in almost twenty years. I am back in my world, but fe…
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Don't you remember?

Derek smirked, “Darn, I see you found your clothes. Obviously I didn’t hide them good enough.”
I faked a laugh, “Ha ha Dere…
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Marauder's Mission

Not long after that, Dwayne and I were driving down a street in a small Virginia town. It was an industrial area, and there w…
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Legend of Hope

”...when angels fall to earth, no one notices anymore.”, the mother paused in her story, and looked out the window. The stars…
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Diary Found In An Abandoned House
Sunday March 8, 1946 – We moved into our new house today. It’s big and old. My bedroom’s on the top floor, below the attic. T…
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My One World (the worldly challenge)

” neng, tan awa si mamang o,nag kalipay ka-ayo tungod kay nagbalik ka, pagka tinu-ud gyud nga na-a ka diri” lina, and beth we…
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The Return of the Murderman, P.2

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New Town, New Problems, New Friends
Going to a new school was difficult, because I left from a family atmosphere to a place where I knew nobody there, and I was …
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The Return of the Murderman, P.3

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The Return of the Murderman, P.4

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The Guardian
The thief had made it, he was deep in the bowels of the most guarded building on the planet. He’d have broken in here ages ag…
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The Letter

The boys were much too polite to say anything about Emily’s outburst on national television, so we avoided the entire subject…
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Hello, S**** E******** M****, I am ME. A Promise to the World

I know who I am, and i love who I am, but when around her, I loose myself. I am a funny guy, I have been called handsome (and…
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Hide N' Seek (poem)
He said,
Close your eyes, count to ten, let’s play hide n’ seek
He ran away,
and I stayed
And I didn’t dare to peek
But our l… -
Cyke Sensor

“DAILEY, MAKE IT STOP!!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, covering my ears with my hands and falling to my knees.
“James,... -
A Type Of Evil
There he was. That arrogant, self-possessed son of a bitch. Acting like he didn’t have a care in the world. The police couldn…
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On A Mission

Gather up everybody. All the boys – none of the girls will do it, it is their nature not to. Tell the guys to bring paper, ...
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Murders, Inc.
“Hello, you’re through to Murders Incorporated, how may I direct your call?”
“Yes, hi, I’d like to have my wife murdered, I’...
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its nice,cold, and rainy out.
a cold, rainy,unusual- for- spring day.
thick grey-or yellow…if you’re a bright soul- cable knit sweaters and old jeans
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Salvation or Something Else

I’d hate to be thought of as prideful, but I was feeling pretty good about myself. My ill-fated high jump over the fence had …
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Chloe and Kevin
“Do you think Chloe has ever made out with some one?”
“No, she is too much of a geek!”
“Actually, she has,” I felt all thei…
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R_M's Ficlets Best Practices Introduction
I was going to wait until a Ficlets forum happened, since I feel that the site really should be for fiction alone and even ch…
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A Pointless Existence
Do you ever get the feeling that nothing you do will matter in the long run?
It’s not just about feeling insignificant in a …
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R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #1: Paragraph Spacing

Open any book or magazine article. What do you see? Paragraphs! Paragraphs where you can _easily tell where one ends and the …
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Shut Up
An air of impending chaos filled the room as I carefully studied the faces around me. I attempted to figure out who would cau…
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Silence

I woke up what I assumed to be hours later, by myself, with a screen over me. There was a man on the screen, who I recognized…
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RUN!

I woke up with numb limbs, positive they were broken. It hurt to breathe, a pleasant change from the constant telepathy heada…
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R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #2: Comment and Rate It!

For every one of my ficlets, I see something odd. Fully ten times as many people read my ficlets as bother to comment or ra…
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R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #3: Ficlet Structure

Some people use ficlets as a notebook for posting their own continuous stories, 1 K at a time. If that’s all you’re using fic…
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change
People just don’t understand that you can’t just ask somebody to be you want them to be. They can’t change themselves just so…
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The Hotel Murder Case
It was about twenty minutes past the hour.
Mourning sun had not laid its presence among the living yet.I was stuck at a mot…
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The Hotel Murder Case Part Two

There wasn’t much in the hotel room except for those two cups of coffee.
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R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #4: Write Prequels & Sequels

One of the greatest things about Ficlets, in my opinion, is the capacity for multiple prequels and sequels. You don’t have to…
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The Hotel Murder Case Part Three

I had decided to make my way to the house of the young girls.
Someone had bin watching me as I got out of my cruiser. Staring… -
Slick
As soon as she hears my footfalls, she hits Alt-Tab and flips the screen, but not quite quickly enough. My assistant, Alisa, ...
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R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #5: Edit Yourself

One of the most important parts of writing a ficlet is self-editing. With only 1024 characters to get a complete mini-story…
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I hate everything about you
I hate everything about you,
I hate the way you look at me,
I hate the way you walk,
I hate the way you talk,
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The Hotel Murder Case Part Four

I had left the knife at the lab to be analyzed.
I couldn’t go pass the day without checking the male residence.Thirty five …
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What's Going On?

Wesley had been in her room for quite a while. Kevin had gotten worried and gone in to check on her. I was sitting on the liv…