Stories posted 4/15/2008
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Forbidden Fruit [poem]

Black eyelashes that flutter against an ivory cheek.
Lips that stumble over words, parting gently
over a stolen breath that … -
An internal run-on monologue on a student teaching application that is due on Tax Day
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Some Very nice things (FluteFaries: NIce things Challenge)

Wow this is a strangely fun challenge. It kinda seems like a popularity contest.. well almost.. I have been writing on here f…
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Around the House with ThroatWolf

Hungry.
The blinds are closed, and I’m reading Edgar Allan Poe. The television is on, and I’m watching Twin Peaks. Somewhere…
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Death Of Mystery Woman
My best friend Eric and I are in Portland. We have been here for a few days. Well, since the funeral for my great Aunt. You s…
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Sunset Clause
“Had you been more clever,” hissed the evil Doctor Krell, “you might have had an inkling of the importance of those first 125…
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Mystery Woman's effects

As I go through the contents of the drawer, I become more intrigued. This woman has quite the asortment of stuff here. It is …
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Margie ends and Frida begins.

“I’ve got about a million.” Margie said.
“That’s a shame”, the impostor replied, “because we have time for one.”
“Why me?”
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Being Kermitgorf (Tad's pen name challenge)

He starts his day like any other. At his computer desk. He sits in his comfy but sturdy chair.. with his breakfast tea. He lo…
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Vicious Attack
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Not So Fast..

Danielle looks at Martin.. Are you sure you feel better?
“Yeah, why?” He asks. “Hold that thought” He suddenly bolts out of … -
Twenty Minutes Later

Twenty minutes later Danielle returns to the room. She finds Martin sleeping in the bed closest to the door. She sets her pur…
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A Break from Mystery Womans Home

The three of us leave the house for Ruby Tuesday’s. With one thing collectively in our minds. What are we doing in that woman…
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One Thirty- Still Sick

“What time is it?” Martin asks. “Uhh its almost one thirty” Danielle responed after she glanced at the alarm clock.
“Christ…
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Colours
When I was five, I was in a car accident with my parents. For the most part, we came away okay. Bumps. Bruises. A very slight…
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DKNY jeans
Hhaha ok so I know that this isnt the best thing to write about but right now I kinda have writers block and this topic got m…
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BARomero's Orphanage of Ficlet Series (1)
Never start something you can’t finish. It’s advice I try to live by, but can’t always do. Over the past year, I’ve started a…
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One Vampire, One Werewolf, One Forbidden Love, P.4

”A WHAT!” I nearly screeched. “Now you see why it was so important that I talk to you. If this vampire finds out that I hang…
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Steel and Flesh
Jack leaned his head back, let out a column of hot air and shook his arm as if it were on fire. It burned.
It had been thre…
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BARomero's Orphanage of Ficlet Series (2)

4483/4484/4485 – Now We Are Five/Found/Morning – TheWickedHaveMoreFun wrote a nice sentimental trilogy, starting with the…
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Love After a Storm
The timer read 3:06, 3:05, counting down the seconds. Kenneth didn’t have much time. He turned a few knobs, and held down a s…
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Mama Always Said It's Important To Be Nice [The Nice Things Challenge]

It is hard to fill up 1,024 characters with ficleteers I feel have made a difference in this community, because that’s not en…
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Easter Weekend

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you do it best
pulling petals off a rose
darkening rainbows.covers sun with clouds
happy times cloaked by shrouds.producing tears form e…
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Mirror Death

She woke up with a start. Another day, another look, she thought. Her heart filled with dread. And loathing. She didn’t lik…
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A Hundred Girls In Shibuya
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Morning Ghost

Dave
The alarm rings promptly at five, ripping me out of my sleep in a cold sweat. I’ve been having nightmares again. It’s…
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Me: Blank [defensive challenge]

I stare at my feet, as though my Converse high-tops are currently the most exciting thing in the world, twirling a strand of …
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The Everyday THX 0477 [Pen Name Challenge]

Awaking from a restful sleep, he was delighted to find the sheets were still neatly tucked under the mattress. The crisp air …
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When Life Gives You Lemons...Rub Them in Other People's Wounds

She was so beautiful. All that beauty sort of intimidated him, but he always pushed that thought far back in his mind so as n…
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Jesus vs. Uncle Sam (Ficlet Number CL Challenge)

“Are you gonna join my revolution?” Jesus asked.
“What revolution?” Uncle Sam replied.
“We need a new way of doing things. ...
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Defy our Mortality?
Defying our on mortality
Making choices we shouldnt make.
s l o w l y losing our sanity.
making our own mistakes.My heart s…
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The Wall
As I sit here, on the stones of Wall Street, I wonder why are they there? Why are they there? Were they part of the original …
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Some Foreign Field

“This is the first time I’ve ever been abroad Roger.” Frida said, trying to take her mind of the circumstances in which she w…
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Swing Life Away2

We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
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Dazed & Conflicted
Dear Mandy:
Three years ago, my father was in a terrible car accident. He was in a coma for a year, and has suffered amnesia…
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Sharp & Certain

Dear Conflicted:
Are you pulling my leg? Yanking my chain? Or any other colloquialism involving tugging anything of mine in …
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Cracked

And these are my last thoughts:
_Warm August light pulling away from the day like a sheet of golden foil. The lights on Main…
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Substandard Seating

Daniel sighed as he read the paper. Why had he even bothered? He should’ve known she would respond that way, everyone else di…
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When Life hands you lemmons Chase with Tequila (When life hands you lemmons Challenge)

It is a dreary Saturday afternoon. It has been raining all day. Fortunately enough for Derrick and I, we have the day off.
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Ficlet Nirvana (Flute Faerie's Nice Things Challenge)

Here goes!
Capital “W” Writer your stories and eplets are phenomenal, often quirky, and they always have great hooks, twis…
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Love and Let Love
Thoughts chase themselves around in my mind,
spinning ever faster as a fierce wind changes my direction,
changing forever th… -
Night of the Tentacle
The skinny probing tentacle slithered silently through a slit in the heat vent, tentatively caressing each object that it cam…
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Confessions of a Highschool Socalite
We were the not-so-in crowd. We were the group of kids that kept to ourselves. Other kids were intimdated by us. Their parent…
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Into the Depths

The tentacle pressed its tip against the girl’s temple, establishing communication.
Katie, she heard echoing inside her he…
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Maybe I'm Wrong

Kristofer
I allow the next song to start without hitting “repeat”, again. With a furtive sigh, I begin reading _The Catche…
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Russian Girls
Hans lit his cigarette and leaned back, handing his lighter off to Tatiana. She and Natasha continued to fawn over him as he …
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Afterglow [poem]

Hands reach out tentatively to touch the wonder of your face,
your skin translucent like spun glass, only more beautiful.
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Saint Chuck (Your Pen Name Here Challenge)

Saint Chuck found himself in English class…again. Never mind the fact that his teacher was frowning over his shoulder in ef…
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Shades of Grey

There was nothing particular about her. Her hair was short, black, it curled against her pale cheeks as if to caress them. He…
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A Day in the Life Of Celestic23

It’s 4 A.M. and she is still up on her laptop writing long emails to her friend in another city. A friend she just talked to …
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the truth about uselessness [(Your Pen Name Here) Challenge]

His codename was “Useful.” It was his private little joke. The back-story was that he’d been inept as a kid, all quivering in…
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In the Depths

Katie slipped and slid down the cavernous opening beneath her house, holding tightly with one hand to the tentacle that also …
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ChrisWDP's Orphanage of Ficlet Series

21214 – One Second Thoughts – This could be the start of a new series. You could go down different paths with it, romance…
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NEJA: No Title This Time

Ethan elbowed Nichole to get her attention. She turned around and raised her eyebrows.
“See?! I told you one of us was desti…
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Breaking up!

“Hey Kev, I heard you were hanging out with the new girl a lot. Is that true?” I said.
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Braces [OM's challenge]

“wow, you do need braces.” alicia said to me.
“oh, thanks, like I didn’t know that already!!!” i said back in a sarcastic to…
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Roots Go Deeper Than You Can See
I am sorry you believe me to be so naive,
Inexperienced, sheltered and unknowing.
I am sorry that you feel convinced that wha… -
My entry for the Nice Things Challenge

Well, first off, KermitGorf is always one to make me laugh.
And OTOC can make the coolest words out of the silliest typos… -
Plan

I let my hand creep up Nikki’s back as I felt her mouth bend into a smile against mine. I pulled away and grinned my best fak…
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A day in the life of Stovohobo

Stovo, sitting in his stately manor, chose not to go to school today. No doubt he is devising another clever ficlet or comple…
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welcome

Well, a week has passed. And so has Joshua. Time for Erika to go home. I thank her warmly and she smiles, on her way.
I walk…
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A Few of My Favorite Ficleteers{Nice things challenge"

So much to say, so little time! I better get started!
O_M-You’re the sister I’ve never had. I mean you know I love you, an…
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The Great and Powerful Katie

Frit reached up, grasped Katie’s hand, and began leading her past the oily pool.
“Why did you scream?” he asked her.
“What?...
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Howhardlifeis, Her Day

Howhardlifeis wakes up to the alarm. She gets up and stretches. Some clothes and breakfast and she is off to school. On her w…
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The River Cold and Vile

Frida tried to maintain her composure. The ship was now passing through the strait between Pagensand and Schwarztonnensand wi…
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We're Okay

“Karly, honey, I’m sorry about your brother, but he’ll come round. Now, where did you say you were, dear? I’m sorry, I was di…
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Happiness
How could this be.. ?
With what seems like everything in the world,
I still feel so empty..
I have everything she wants,
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Am i just one free night
i love you, never say that i dont
i try not to be jealous when he talks to you but i just dont understand what you see in him… -
Trowing a Punch

Kahn stands there.
Kahn: Just hear me out, I lied. There are not other people on the island. I did do that to hurt you Mike…. -
Surfing Lessons

Bernard and I walk into the town, looking for a swin suit store. Neither of us had ours, obviously, having rushed out of Tene…
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A Nice Dance to a Different Tune
The song was something modern, tragically pained and painfully slow. The dance floor thudded along slowly to the beat beneath…
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Kisses And Rain

I can see Kahn at the edge of the trees. I grabbed Mike’s face, crushed my lips into his and watched Kahn walk away quickly.
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Ficlet Nirvana II (A Continuation of the Nice Things Challenge)

One ficlet was not enough space in which to praise enough of my favorite ficlet writers!
blusparrow I imagine every room y…
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You Kidding Me?

_See that’s exactly why we are breaking up! She’s way too clingy and obsessed with my overall life! Hey, I know, I am going t…
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Macy 32: What?

Derrick jumped down almost on top of Shane.
“You scared me!” Macy screamed. Shane laughed at her while Derrick stood betwee…
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Macy 33: Her Eyes

“Uh yeah I did.” Macy continued as Derrick crossed the meadow away from them, blushing.
“You believe anything. But they di…