Ficlets | Stories posted 5/9/2008

Stories posted 5/9/2008

Jonas Part 37: Separated

by LovingYourHeartbreak♥ 3 days ago

Well, there still was Kevin. But he is.. old. :] It seemed that the true, uninterrupted happiness only existed between Carly …
Jonas Part 38: TTYL

by LovingYourHeartbreak♥ 3 days ago

I skipped over to her side as she flipped open her phone.
‘From: Mommy
Amanda. Do you have a graduation dress yet ? I am @ No…
Ridda's Defense

by Valley Fey/Pinprick 3 days ago

Ridda stood abruptly, and Sioni’s eyes flashed open. “I don’t care what you call her, Joseph, and I don’t care what you think…
Numbers

by Arcdeluxe 3 days ago

Numbers have long been the subject of much study in the world. It has long been surmised that numbers hold the key to underst…
A boy fights Cancer

by Celestic23 2 days ago

A dying boy lies in his bed. His body over taken by cancer. It has left him thin and weak and constantly tired. Deep down thi…
Sorry

by John Perkins 2 days ago

His eyes moved slowly up from his drink. The smoke filled room could not hide the sadness and disappointment in her eyes. Her…
What A Crab!

by Tad Winslow 2 days ago

If my school morning mentality could be expressed by a trumpet I’d say it would sound like a half hearted push of air squeaki…
Love in Space

by Ben Paddon 2 days ago

“I’m an idiot,” said Franklin as he took a sip of his Synthe-Gin.

“Yep,” nodded Germley the Andropulsian barkeep, the balloo…
clarity

by User 9100 2 days ago

The factory was more than a production line. Its workers thought of themselves as creators, not drudges. They made the world …
Regents Park Tube

by Maleghast 2 days ago

It was a few moments before I noticed the girl at the other end of the otherwise deserted platform. I was listening to my iPo…
Gasping for Air

by Celestic23 2 days ago

One morning the young boy wakes up in a great deal of pain. He sits up and gasps violently for air. The cancer that has been …
Final Goodbye

by Celestic23 2 days ago

The young boy looked his father in the eye, as he began to speak. “I know I don’t have much time left.. I will be gone one da…
Reflections of War

by digigal 2 days ago

Colonel Helmut Albrecht looked at a picture in the corner of his office. He was at least 20 years younger then and still flyi…
Weight of the World: Remembering the Dead Sequel

by Jenunique 2 days ago

John tried to block the assaulting spray, only seconds too late. He stumbled and fell backward hitting his head on a gravesto…
Some Inexplicable Feeling

by Christian 2 days ago

It was the sensation of one’s skin going bitter, one’s nerves recoiling, which was most essential. The sensation of one’s fin…
More Than A Feeling

by Comic 2 days ago

But it was only theory, still. He only hoped that it worked as well with paper as on paper- and if it did, it was a break…
Some other time [Deja Vu]

by Lee Braiden 2 days ago

I staggered in anyway. What’s a broken down old building between friends?

Somehow, I knew this place: the pattern of bricks …
The Dragon and The Sphinx

by THX 0477 2 days ago

The room fell silent save for the rhythmic tapping of Lady Huxtable’s boot toe on the wood floor. Her thin, nearly lipless mo…
The Dumpster

by Krulltar 2 days ago

“Tell me again, why we are dumpster diving?” Stanley asked.

“Too many nuts in the sack, Bruno”, Sam quipped.

Unlike Sam, t…
Clyde Corrigan

by Seth Miller 2 days ago

April Joyce was compelling.
She compelled him to act.
No matter how irrationally.
He knew all the details except for one: ...
Darkhall

by RomulusNR 2 days ago

In the otherwise pitch blackness, Chimron could only see by the white sparks spitting from the exposed wire hanging down from…
The Room

by williamthebloody 2 days ago

Just coming up on the horizon is a house. And in this house is a particular room.

Well, there’s actually a lot of rooms in t…
Wayfarer

by Alexander McGee 2 days ago

I had a lazy morning – ate my first bag of Doritos (29 left) and watched Friends. I really can’t stand that Ross guy. Eventua…
Beyond the Snow

by falconesse 2 days ago

“Tell me,” said the sorcerer, “what do you see beyond the snow?”

His apprentice, ten summers old, squinched his eyes and huf…
The Gorged Predator

by Browncoatben 2 days ago

It hung motionless in the void, its jagged outline drawing an obsene line against the majesty of the sky. Twinkles of light…..
The Same Old Life

by Steve Fairweather 2 days ago

“Phil, there you are! Everyone, welcome your new team captain Phil.” It was Tom speaking, the short, exuberant fellow that ha…
Velvet II

by Nouvelle Bardot 2 days ago

“Well, what are you waiting for?” she said almost robotically as she lay back, propping herself up by her arms behind her.

”...
Fetch

by The Unnamable 2 days ago

Her eyes closed, she basked in the band of sunlight like a mask across her face. She could tell he was about to say something…
#220 and #221

by Will Hindmarch 2 days ago

“Not anymore, Herr Doctor,” she said. “And never again.” Behind her teeth brass cylinders rotated, clicking together to form …
God is in the TV

by KevMullins 2 days ago

The problem, you see, with being a near omnipotent, post singularity, god like being is… BOREDOM. Plain, simple, boredom….
What a Beautiful Day - The Widow

by Browncoatben 2 days ago

The flag was pulled off of the coffin with care. White gloves folded it into a perfect triangle with precision and grace.

Th…
Velvet III

by Nouvelle Bardot 2 days ago

“What’s the matter?” She said. He shook his head.

“Really,” she said, inching herself over to him, “What are you doing here…
Within Reach

by Lee Braiden 2 days ago

“Ahh, you did it that time, didn’t you Aery? What did you see?” Her grandmother was so excited that she could hardly contain …
Time and again

by Wolfechu 2 days ago

“It’s happening again.”

I knew he was going to say that. Whether that was part of the Chronoclasm, or the fact that I’d kn…
Snow Angel

by agenda-b 2 days ago
Our Own Kind

by One Time, One Chance 2 days ago

I called my mom and told her I was going to hang at Warren’s house for a while. I was there from about 7PM to 1:45AM. He real…
What Kind Of Friend Would I Be?

by One Time, One Chance 2 days ago

I wanted to hang out with Scarlet, I mean she was my best friend. And Travis was sort of hott, and he’s totally in to me. The…
Lipogram

by Adjusting 2 days ago

“What is a lipogram?”

It’s a surprising inquiry, coming from my girl.

“Who told you about that?”
“Douglas.”

Douglas. Also …
Not Now

by One Time, One Chance 2 days ago

Everybody does it.
Nobody is supposed to, but the teachers know just as well as we do that everybody has them with us.
Cell p…
Got To Catch Them All

by Acantha 2 days ago

The monster rustled his lips and smiled toothily. “That hit the spot.”

“I hope so. Do you know how long it took me to find o…
The Other Side of the Mirror (Deja Vu Challenge)

by JMBauhaus 2 days ago

He had always seen ghosts. Not like that kid in that movie. Nothing creepy like that. Just glimpses, quick shots of people wh…
A Simple Smile Can Brighten A Day (3&&TheEnd)

by One Time, One Chance 2 days ago

The little girl with the kitten had a subject to talk about, and she never hesitated to talk to anybody about it. She called …
Star Wars: A Powerful Obsession

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

It may have been all those repressed feelings towards Leia guiding him, or it may have been the beautiful, if not forward, yo…
Cassie

by Lee Braiden 2 days ago

She was always doing things like that: writing stories, and denying she’d done it; singing songs, and claiming to only hum a …
Orlando Comforts Lynde

by One Time, One Chance 2 days ago

xxbeachbabexx: hey i’m bak

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xxbeachbabexx: n2m, got ina realli big arguement w/ my bf…
Gramps and His Memory

by THX 0477 2 days ago

“Freshen that up for ya, Dennis?” The waitress was loud, too loud for mid-afternoon. Dennis sighed when he realized he was ol…
Seeking Forgiveness

by Steve Fairweather 2 days ago

Each day that passed after that fateful moment was an empty void where once such beauty could have filled. It was hard for hi…
You know!

by Rhine Stone Cowboy 2 days ago

In the morning I awoke to a startling voice…it kept repeating…..Thespians hate pink dolphins…
Stars Wars: Fully Loaded

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

“Where exactly are we?” Scott asked.

“The armory,” Jesus answered.

“Weird, it was,” Yoda admitted. “One second, there;...
Searching for eldorado and eating endangered species.

by trifalmadorian_gameshowhost 2 days ago

“The tapir huh?”

“They are slow and fat and taste like chicken bacon.”

“Aren’t they an endangered species?”

“Besides bein…
A Declaration of Dragons

by Acantha 2 days ago

“It is a dragon sky today,” the Child pronounced, sipping her tea with purpose. Across the table, Memory raised one immaculat…
Death to the Innocents

by Stovohobo 2 days ago

8/6/45
Hiroshima, Japan

The child watched as his mother raced for him from the other end of the street, her skin seared from…
Paying The Price

by John Perkins 2 days ago

I took the long way home, intentionally avoiding the highway. I needed time to think and find a way to break the news to Ange…
He Only Appears In The Moonlight

by The Unnamable 2 days ago

Red splattered across the graph-like neck of Mooney’s acoustic guitar. What calluses his fingers had been armored with had lo…
She's Reading Sandman!

by Browncoatben 2 days ago

“Excuse me. Can I ask you a question?” Casey asked the girl in the blue hat. He’d been watching her for three stops now.

The…
another great story by me!!

by DARK 2 days ago

This was it! Are you ready viewers??!???!

Okay here i go, im ready, yeas i am.

cough cough srry

okay n…
One Minute View

by agenda-b 2 days ago

Ka-ching. Clack. Tic-tic-tic-tic…

I love these things. Twenty-five cents, exact change, and you get a magnified view of ev…
REAL STORY NO JOKE BY ME!!!!!!@!@!@!!

by DARK 2 days ago

There was shooting all around. Untill!!!!! He came. He was soooooooooooooo sooooo good. He shot blasted and killed everyone! ...
Star Wars: Dueling Heroes

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

“Which one of you bozos decided it was a good idea to blow up my ship!?” Han Solo asked through gritted teeth.

The heroes ea…
Pirates!

by smarty101 2 days ago

I grasped the handle of my cutlass tightly. I knew someone was just around the corner. I sensed it. I held my breath as I cam…
(Brebelles Challenge) : The Little Planet that Couldn't

by Steve Fairweather 2 days ago

Pluto was always late.

To be fair, he did have the farthest to travel but sometimes Neptune strayed a bit yet always managed…
Velvet IV

by Nouvelle Bardot 2 days ago

“Its like Hotel California,” she explained, “you can check out anytime, but you can never leave.” She sat there for a moment,...
Star Wars: A Head Start

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

Buffy was actually kind of enjoying her date with the Emperor. Whenever he wasn’t whining or flying off the handle, he coul…
A mysterious package

by Ridcully Calvert 2 days ago

I ran into the house in a flat panic. Where were Angela and little Nick?

I knew this was to good to last, those bast… “Oh,...
Fleeting Love

by agenda-b 2 days ago
Fleeting Love

by agenda-b 2 days ago
Remember the Dead : Misplaced

by Matthew Brown 2 days ago

John opened his eyes again and found himself lying on a cot in a small log cabin. He glanced over and saw a woman leaning ove…
A Formal Affair

by Joseph T. Lopez 2 days ago

Calvin knew the second the words were out of his mouth that there was, officially, no way for this night to end well. First o…
Anniversary

by kaellinn18 2 days ago

“Do you think he’ll show this year?” Travis asked his brother as he flipped another steak. The meat popped and sizzled as the…
I DON'T CARE!

by Overlooked_Merchandise 2 days ago

I heard a gasp, and a bit of a squeal. I knew she would do this. Why would she want to go with me… I grabbed my backpack …
(Brebelles Challenge) : Rock Em Gauntlet

by Browncoatben 2 days ago

I walked into the bar that night looking for trouble. I sat alone at the bar and ordered a bowl of Skittles. Damn rainbow of …
This Is Known

by More Ways Than One 2 days ago

This is known
I never tried to loan
It away for something else
Here’s who I am
This is where I stand

My past is apart of me
...
Waiting For Rain

by RicoLaser 2 days ago

Travis smiled a little, tried not to smirk. “Hey, don’t blame cancer. It’s not the cancer’s fault. Might as well blame the ic…
Make Me Laugh Challenge

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Today I wrote my 150th ficlet. So, it seems that it’s about time for another challeng…
Accidents Happen

by Mad As A Hatter 2 days ago

“Ow!” came a voice from behind the door. It was him. Apparently normal people don’t throw open doors with such vigor.

“Oh!...
Never One for Patience

by Ana Cristina 2 days ago

Sioni’s mother knew she was supposed to stay on the king’s estate and wait with her husband for Prince Alfred to return, but …
The Following Ficlet Takes Place Between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM

by BARomero 2 days ago

8:55:28 PM

Just get in, set the machine, and get out, Arnold thought to himself, sneaking into his own home. _Get in, se…
Civil War letter

by Sailor Emo 2 days ago

July 4th , 1863
Dear Hope,
You have left us far behind. I wish that I could remember you clearly, but sadly I do not. I wi…
Civil war letter part 2

by Sailor Emo 2 days ago

Is it so bad to have the blood of your enemies on your hands? Is it so dreadful to hear the cries of dying men and feeling no…
Civil war letter Part 3

by Sailor Emo 2 days ago

Oh Hope, why did you leave us? We had every advantage on our side! And even if we did not we had General Lee! One of the most…
Robbery in Proggress

by Celestic23 2 days ago

Britney stands fozen over the guard. She watches to see if he will move. Slowly she meets Jared’s eyes. “Brit what have you d…
Star Wars: The Union Of Death

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

The heroes had to wade through a sea of picketers, and judging by their signs the union of death was not in a festive mood.

...
Mother Hen

by Valley Fey/Pinprick 2 days ago

Malvolia stood in front of her mirror, in the cottage by the brook. Sioni was still missing, but she didn’t feel like looking…
Mind Reader

by Ana Cristina 2 days ago

Just then Candace walked back into the room with the card and blanched when she saw Lady Huxtable.

“Madam! Er, you’ve come …
And Other Hard Knocks

by Joseph T. Lopez 2 days ago
Sending A Message

by John Perkins 2 days ago

“Good evening Mr. Lawson,” the bust of a man spoke to me through the television. “I will assume that you know who I am, or ra…
The Following Takes Place Between 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

9:00:07 PM

Dr. Reeves heard a noise downstairs. He reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a gun. He walked to the clo…
Unreality

by Tony Mannor 2 days ago

He could remember when sex was hot.

Some young, small-time actress would be on set to spit out her line. He would slide up n…
The Fellowship Ch.4

by Bartimaeus 2 days ago

The plane shook violently, and several girls on the opposite side of the plane screamed in horror. I couldn’t see what’d happ…
Oh! How Exceedingly Queer! {Brebelles Challenge}

by Mad As A Hatter 2 days ago

Emma was in a dilemma. Oh dear, that rhymes, doesn’t it? Well, I assure that was totally unintentional.

Back to our story. E…
Replay in the Rain

by adeyjordan 2 days ago

He belched again, tasting last night’s rabbit. Less than pleasant memories of the dinner and what came after. Huddled under h…
Fallen Angel (Pt. 7)

by invisibility_disability 2 days ago

Basil assumed it was the next day. There was no way to tell in his dank, dark, lonely prison. “Basil, we will be moving you t…
Decision

by kaoticrequiem 2 days ago

For the first time in the history of the operation, the alarms had sounded, and that meant catastrophe. At that moment howeve…
Life

by Life&&Love 2 days ago

Life is to short
grudges are a waste of perfect happieness
laugh when you can
apologize when you should
let go what you can’t…
When I Close My Eyes

by Life&&Love 2 days ago

Every time i close my eyes i see your face
when i reopen my eyes i wonder where you are,where you went and wonder if your okay.
He Must be Jealous, Right?

by Blusparrow 2 days ago

His face turns beat red
“Nothing! I gotta go bye!” He slams his locker and practically runs away. _What is up with him? Ever …
Its About Time to Face My Fears

by Life&&Love 2 days ago
Its About Time to Face My Fears

by Life&&Love 2 days ago

Its about time now, I need to walk out that door.But, once I go out I can never come back in. It’s a permenant place out side…
talk less ... say more.

by invisibility_disability 2 days ago

I think that anything important enough can be said with no words.
Where the heck AM I?!

by invisibility_disability 2 days ago

Kamaria woke up and felt like she was riding a horse.
“Not quite a horse,” came Aedin’s voice, “but close enough.” He was car…
Traffic Stop

by Browncoatben 2 days ago

I wonder if my tires are up to this, he thought. _How much gas do I have? What was that rattle I heard the other day? Oh Go…
Star Wars: The Lynch Mob

by thebetweenspace 2 days ago

The lynch mob moved quickly through the Death Star. Like most angry mobs, they chanted along the way: “No more death and war!...
Lucky Man

by AndyT 2 days ago

All I can see is her. I’m a lucky man. She’s standing there looking at me. I recognise the way she is looking at me as it’s a…
destiny....

by invisibility_disability 2 days ago

“over a hundred thousand years ago, mhoretaelia crossed the dimension line, into the human’s world. although back then, elves…
The Light

by I'm Defiying Gravity 2 days ago

If there is no light,
how can i see?
If there is no hope,
how can i believe?
For with life comes
Death
whether tomorrow,
tod…
New York Minute

by I'm Defiying Gravity 2 days ago

If life is here
what will
happen next?
I have nothing to look forward to
nothing is planned
everything can change
in a New Y…
Friends

by Life&&Love 2 days ago

Real friends are like dimonds precious but, rare
Fake friends are like autum leaves found everywhere

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