Ficlets | Stories posted 5/12/2008

Stories posted 5/12/2008

How I Wish You Were Here With Me Now [poem]

by Ana Cristina 3 months ago

How I wish you were here with me now -
The moon is a promise I can keep forever;
The wind is a memory I’ll not soon forget:
T…
Birth of a Monster

by constructofamind 3 months ago

In the pitch black night, thunder cracked and lightning momentarily lit the sky. A small lantern swayed in the wind, illumin…
Six Days

by Apostrophe 3 months ago

Six days spent with amazing people. Having an amazing time. Doing things that one would never think of doing. Basically just …
On Beauty [poem/rant]

by Ana Cristina 3 months ago

I am sick of plasticine smile princesses
who do not sweat but rather exude sweet-sweet fragrance
through every pore.

I am b…
Helpless

by Tears of Phoenix 3 months ago

He just sits there. It’s a dark well, and he sits in it. The currents swirl about, pulling him this way and that.

I can see …
Waiting for Him

by Mr Reeses 3 months ago

The drive was long, the drive was intense, with anticipation, to see his face. She sat in the car waiting patiencely to see h…
The dawn and dusk of civilization

by cphpitts 3 months ago

It was the dawn of a new civilization. For the first, these fragile creatures stepped from their caves and realized they were…
I'm Sorry

by cphpitts 3 months ago

I try to tell him I’m sorry, but he doesn’t say a word. I reach for him, and he pulls away.

I tell him that it was an accide…
Ancient afterthought

by Cartoon Dude 3 months ago

Calling it a time machine would have been too cliché, too limited. Sure, that was one way of referring to that damned thing...
(Very) long time coming

by Cartoon Dude 3 months ago

7,200 years is a long time (for the uninitiated that is). Why now? And why her? “Why not her?”, an objective observer would s…
By the Coin

by Stace Johnson 3 months ago

I came to you, unbidden, unwelcome, but needed nonetheless. As I predicted eons ago, your leaders led you astray; peace is fu…
Until The Very End

by More Ways Than One 3 months ago

Keep me still
Oh this is not how it is
Don’t you know that I’ll be here
Until the very end

Let me see your tired eyes
Take y…
She Could Fly

by wytherwings 3 months ago

Why are you so free? How? How can you be so… unafraid? The world is a big and scary place. And you’re, you’re so small and …
Open the Door

by wytherwings 3 months ago

Please.

Let me in. Don’t close the door. I’m scared that I’m too weak to open it myself again. I don’t think I’ll be able t…
Demihuman

by Larian 3 months ago

I’ve had the dream dozens of times. I’m walking through an utterly empty city. The buildings are designed in the architectura…
I'm going to be.. (When I grow up challenge)

by Misfit Dreams 3 months ago

I’m going to be a superhero when I grow up. I don’t know what my super power is going to be but it will be a great super powe…
Water World

by Amyo 3 months ago

Elliot stands on the deck, the icy wind whipping at his hair and lashing his shirt against his neck. His ears are pricked, wa…
Dropped

by Ooie 3 months ago

“Thump”

The hacky sack lands on a brick. No one picks the bag of beads up. It just sits there; flat, alone. It sits there an…
What Happened To Your Face?

by BMGelinas 3 months ago
How long is a minute?

by Maleghast 3 months ago

Tabitha reached across the table and laid her hand on her granddaughter’s trembling hands. She smiled her ever so slightly cr…
treat her as you treat me

by Miranda Ann 3 months ago

At least you try to make it better
We know you don’t treat us the same
Hopefully it will work this time
Try to treat us the s…
Dissapointment

by RCYHAONI 3 months ago

I stood in front of her, not saying a word. I just looked away, disappointed in her. I didn’t think she would do that. Never….
why dont i hurt?

by lilly 3 months ago

I love you.
So why don’t I hurt?
I gave you the world,
You were my everything.
But you left me.
Yet nothing changes.
It’s lik…
always and forever

by lilly 3 months ago

I love being in your arms,
I love the sound of your voice.
I’d give the world to be there.
I’d do anything to hear your voice…
Alone

by Prof. Revilo 3 months ago

I stride through the corridoors of our school. Lots of people around me. But still somehow I feel as though I’m alone.
I alwa…
Alone in the aftermath

by Alexander McGee 3 months ago

To call it ‘afternoon’ would have implied the sun was visible below its zenith. I preferred to think of it as ‘slightly dimme…
Stella Star: Special Delivery

by THX 0477 3 months ago

Eyes narrowed with focus, Stella noted the macaque’s long, pink face and fluffy hair. Assuming the sick Dr. Munroe had given …
Mills & Poon

by Spanky Danster 3 months ago
A Very Star Wars Wedding Reception

by thebetweenspace 3 months ago

The Dan Band finished belting out a profanity-laced version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.

Chazz and Scott gave each other…
It Just Sounds Nicer

by Dragon_sun 515 3 months ago

I tensed up and stood straight, an automatic sign my stubborness was kicking in, “What do you mean ‘I’m lucky?’”

“Well, sein…
While I was Dead

by Dragon_sun 515 3 months ago

I turned around slowly, “What do you mean: the other one?” The girl, for she was a girl, had short black hair that framed the…
Unique Business Card

by ZorkFox 3 months ago

Rachel watched him from the moment he entered the bar. She occupied a rear booth, and was accompanied by a Jack Daniels on th…
Island Life [When I Grow Up Challenge]

by THX 0477 3 months ago

I roll out of the hammock onto warm sand. Eyes blinking in the tropical sun, I stroll into the breeze. With a smile I rap a k…
Excuse me?

by Chgowiz 3 months ago

“You know you want to…” whispered the knight as they walked through the forest.

Julius’s head jerked as he eyed the bulky…
How Do You Think He Does It?

by The Unnamable 3 months ago

He used his middle fingers. The very tips of those unmanicured digits caressing the parallel buttons almost sweetly. That dum…
Stages (When I Grow Up Challenge)

by Trann 3 months ago

When I was a toddler, I wanted to be just like my Dad. I loved him this much! I had no idea what he did, but I wanted to be…
Are You Crazy To Marry A Stranger

by butterflygirl6106 3 months ago

She always wanted to know if she could pull of finding Mr. right. She was a 40 year old woman with no prospect’s in boyfriend…
The Truth about Writing [When I Grow Up Challenge]

by Ana Cristina 3 months ago

Ever since I was a little girl, I always knew I was meant to be a writer. I gleefully imagined my future – I would only write…
Video anomaly

by Ghita 3 months ago

Jamie looked in the monitor again. She didn’t believe what she saw. Hit rewind again, and again. Slo-mo didn’t make it any be…
Chloe 11

by ChloeNoelle 3 months ago

Chloe-
Ok i just read Miranda’s last entry and I really feel the need to comment so..ok well Miranda did you Play???? Lol. ...
miranda

by Miranda Ann 3 months ago

miranda
NO I DID NOT PLAY ARER YOU CRAZY!!!!!!
Mary joe and I were studying and Cole called he told me he wanted to go ou…
Unfinished Business

by Alex Spivak 3 months ago

He saw them coming. They were drawing ever closer.

“mwaraaaaaaaaaaaaa!” exclaimed the beasts.

Jason ran fast. Faster than …
Surveillance

by Adjusting 3 months ago

Rodney lowered his binoculars and spoke softly into his collar microphone.
“Target sighted. She’s entered the family home.”

...
Handing Down An Assignment

by The Unnamable 3 months ago

Thingoff tapped his ring finger in a tattoo on the counter below him. Yesterday’s assessment had worn him out. Finger calisth…
Then and now

by RomulusNR 3 months ago

Annie’s expression fell from frustration to guilty regret. “It’s complicated”, she said to her daughter. “I’m older now, and …
Saint Chuck's When I Grow Up Challenge: Montage

by Browncoatben 3 months ago

Weigtless, I float into the LEM. The moon is small in the window now. It’s over. Is it really over? Was I really there? Why i…
March 14

by Stoner 3 months ago

Fog unusually thick the past 2 days. Everything has a strange ‘aura’ to it, no doubt from the fog. Every once in a while ther…
The Pillar - An Empty Tomb

by Browncoatben 3 months ago

Stine led the party onto The Pillar. A team of six men stood in the airlock, wearing full suits. They were all prepared, to s…
A Winner Is Me

by RomulusNR 3 months ago

Just last week I’d about given up hope. But here it is.

Sitting on my doorstep. Waiting for me. Calm and disinterested. As i…
Red Stripes

by RomulusNR 3 months ago

Stripes and stripes and stripes and stripes of red and red and red and red.

I can’t see it.

Covering walls, poured over flo…
The Stand

by btwright 3 months ago

Spider did, indeed, hook her up.

She put $2100 in his little hands and ten minutes later, she walked out his little apartmen…
A Day In My Life

by Prof. Revilo 3 months ago

My method of getting through a day is just to look foreward to the next nice thing on that day. Just like swinging through th…
Brother In Arms

by btwright 3 months ago

Terrance hated his brother. Stupid jerk.

Tyson’s campus was on the other side of town. Terrance normally rode the bus to the…
Tongue-Tied

by thebetweenspace 3 months ago

Jameson was exactly where he always was at parties. Sitting on the couch, waiting for somebody to come talk to him. In fact…
Punk Rocker Alter Ego [J.B. dream challenge]

by Mistress Elsha Hawk 3 months ago
Be Cool, Man, Be Cool.

by Ana Cristina 3 months ago

Jameson just stared into his beer, miserable. And the night had started so well…

He had had an inkling, the slightest of…
There goes that idea

by Ridcully Calvert 3 months ago

I connected a video conference with my union rep. Bobby DeAngelo was, as usual, the picture of efficiency. He had been my rep…
Reynolds' Decision

by Browncoatben 3 months ago
What Guys Want, The Other Point of View

by THX 0477 3 months ago

Becca tried a little wave, but Jameson was too busy inspecting his beer.

“What are you doing?” Sassy queried testily.

“No…
Nightmare Contigent

by btwright 3 months ago

“I know all about your promotions,” I said, making no attempt to hide my disgust. _“My predecessor was ‘promoted’ as I reme…
Okay, But It's Gonna Cost You

by thebetweenspace 3 months ago

Paul smiled, a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. “Okay, but it’s gonna cost you.”

“What do you want this time?”

“I need a …
WHY!?

by Rhine Stone Cowboy 3 months ago

It was lost….............so lost…...................where’s my blue flower?
Kofi's Wall [When I Grow Up Challenge]

by Eckhouse 3 months ago

Kofi was building a wall as he had been told. It was approximately thirty yards from where he was told to bury his mother two…
The Upper Hand

by Browncoatben 3 months ago

“Cleveland. You. Yes. No.” Jameson said levelly just as Becca approached. “I’d go to Cleveland.”

She was a bit shocked. Not …
An Exercise In Dialogue

by BMGelinas 3 months ago

“Come on, John, don’t you know what you could get for that thing? We’re talkin’ probably a million bucks on eBay! Think about…
BOGOF!

by Ghita 3 months ago

“You know we needed protection. I got it. Two for one!” she said. When she got to the house, she told them where to sit. She …
The Game Is In Full Swing

by thebetweenspace 3 months ago

At first, Becca thought Jameson had lost his mind. But quickly she caught on and started playing the game. “That was an impor…
Fool's Hiding

by Laine P. Grey 3 months ago

Kristofer

So, I’ve been on the extensive program for three months, now. Or, I should say that I’ve appeared to be on the e…
Where Are All the Groupies? [When I Grow Up Challenge]

by John Perkins 3 months ago

The phone rings. I force myself to pull away from the monitor and answer.

“Hello, this is John.”

The voice on the other end…
The Hut

by Twitch 3 months ago

I woke up on a hard, lumpy couch, but still comfy enough. Something on my head was still burning. I rubbed it, still a scab. ...
Almost Caught

by SKermitgorf 3 months ago
A Further Description and How His Life Became Indebted to Me

by Laine P. Grey 3 months ago

It wasn’t an obvious thing…not really. Anyone could excuse his love for gore as just being a typical teenage boy.
He voice…
The After-birth

by constructofamind 3 months ago

There was a sudden relief in her abdomen and then the sound of a baby crying.

“Oh, by the gods!” yelped the midwife.

“What?...
Tattoo Artist (Grow Up Challenge)

by Laine P. Grey 3 months ago

While in the womb, I made up my mind to become a tattoo artist. The smell of ink to wake me up in the morning, and to put me …
Still There Was Nothing

by constructofamind 3 months ago

Agathia’s weakened state didn’t permit her the luxury of crying for her loss. She lied back onto the haystack, leaning her h…
The Mark?

by Colonel Mustard 3 months ago
Losing Some Heat

by thebetweenspace 3 months ago

“Wow, babe. That was awesome,” Britney said. “The bullet hit him right in the throat.”

“I’ve never shot a man before,” Jared…
Promotion

by User 8743 3 months ago

My heart was thundering in my head, as I pressed forward and kicked hard. The thought of becoming best was almost a reality n…
Not again!

by howhardlifeis♥ 3 months ago

_She’s never going to forgive me for telling everyone when she gets out of this, if she does. Hopefully she does. But it’s a …
The Other Side of Eighteen

by [pens&feathers] 3 months ago

If you wanted to,
you could drive up for the weekend
and we could view New England
from the other side of eighteen.

You cou…
Set in Stone

by Stovohobo 3 months ago

“So you killed him?” I asked one day as the Scarecrow and I sat on a tree stump.

It creaked its burlap sack head towards me,...
Sad truth, so get smart

by Matthew Brown 3 months ago

The noise is deafening, the crowd is ecstatic, flashes and shouts disrupting reality as I step out of the limo. As I stand, ...
Boiling Point

by More Ways Than One 3 months ago

It was a few months ago. The stupid thing I did. Parties. I hate parties. Why did I go there?

Maybe, it was because I needed…
Never Grow Up ,Not Me.(Saint Chuck's When I Grow Up Challenege)

by SKermitgorf 3 months ago

Well, I haven’t ‘grown up ’ yet, I still don’t really know what I want to do when I grow up.

Growing up in a city, I had a …
Wake Up Call

by More Ways Than One 3 months ago

“So that’s what happened?”

The rumors never stop. It’s high school. No one gives a crap what is true and what’s not. So all …
Don't Muck with Tara's IPOD!

by YodaOnCrack 3 months ago
Haikus from 2005

by Fyora Cartagan 3 months ago

The birds watch the sun
rising above the earth’s fog
slowly lighting day

The dead dried brown grass
Munched by a brown buffa…
West to Adventure...Or Not

by THX 0477 3 months ago

Sissy rolled her compact to the highway on-ramp, her younger siblings bickering in the back. The dreaded ride home from schoo…
What I wanted to be when I was seven! (Saint Chuck's Challenge)

by Blusparrow 3 months ago

There I was a little girl, about seven. I was a strong, rough and tough girl though and I always thought for myself.

“Mamma…
The Second Dream

by Stovohobo 3 months ago

As the gray, cold vehicle drove off, emitting a gray, cold cloud of exhaust into the gray, cold sky, the woman slumped down o…
Blood

by Never Explain 3 months ago

Helena’s lips met against mine again. The freaky cold feeling on my insides went to seemed to be sub-zero temperature.

I th…
Breaking the Silence

by Overlooked_Merchandise 3 months ago

_I am running, and running…toward what? Faith. I’m running to her. But the more I run, it seems, the farther I get from her…
Stone

by You Know You Love Mee! 3 months ago

She was sitting on the steps of the enormous stone building, thinking of her next steps. Would she just waltz in? Like nothin…
I am Slut (Brit)

by Dreamer 3 months ago
Stella Star and the Queen Spider-Monkey

by YodaOnCrack 3 months ago

Unconscious, Alice the mutant super-macaque lay at Dr. Munroe’s feet. Stella aimed her .38 at Dr. Munroe.

“How dare you, ” …
Day Has Come

by Jamie Rose 3 months ago

“The day has come.”
The mutter of those four simple words caused a tremor to roll down my spine. I knew it was time, but I wa…
Just A Little Running Away

by Dreamer 3 months ago

The instant I heard her sob I turned around, hurrying back to her house… I got the gist of what she was saying. Suddenly an…
Just A Little Roof Jumping

by Dreamer 3 months ago

After I was done throwing my clothing at him, I heard Dad knock on my door.Him: Cynthia, honey, can we talk about this?
Me: N…
Secrets

by Matthew Brown 3 months ago

We traveled for what seemed like days although the sun never seemed to rise. Verdy seemed calm and collected, and considering…
Just A Little Planning

by Dreamer 3 months ago

We ran to my car, carrying her clothes. I looked over at her; the excitement of what we were doing did not quite cover the sa…
Just A Little Humming

by Dreamer 3 months ago

Drew hung up and got out of the car, leaving the keys behind and the doors unlocked.
Walking around to the back of the car he…
I am Nerd

by Dreamer 3 months ago
One Millisecond

by More Ways Than One 3 months ago

Look at him jumping. You know you’re jealous. Because for one millisecond he lives with no worries. Up in the air is where he…
In Need of Control

by Dreamer 3 months ago

I shook my head, “No, not an Assassin enchantment, which is really a curse,” I added under my breath. The corner of his mou…

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