Ficlets

Sign In | Blog | Help

• Repetition, Frustration, and Resignation [Infamous Beginning Challenge]

  by THX 0477 4 months ago

  “It was a dark and stormy night.” The young man said it with a rote detachment, eyes glassy, lost in infinity.

  The men in bl…

• Strange Normalities: Dan's POV: Arrival

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 4 months ago

  “What the heck?!” I yelled.
  “Gotta eat a peck’a dirt before you die and get covered in more. Might as well get it in now,” Ju…

• Strange Normalities: Muddy Escape

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 4 months ago

  Dan led me down the bleak hallway, steering me by my shoulder. Surprisingly, we didn’t take the route for the front of the sc…

• Dead Whispers

  by Nouvelle Bardot 6 months ago

  Its a cold day at the cemetary. The patent leather on my shoes is streaked with the squish of mud underfoot and my socks are …

• Birth of the Firefox, Part 14

  by Robotech_Master 8 months ago

  Although beyond brilliant by human standards, the Firefox was not infallible. She did not know, for example, that intimate co…

• Birth of the Firefox, Part 13

  by Robotech_Master 8 months ago

  “Would I what?” Martin stared at the foxy woman.

  “Would you like to have sex with me?” the Firefox repeated guilelessly.

  ...

• Birth of the Firefox, Part 12

  by Robotech_Master 8 months ago

  Martin goggled at the new arrival, and tried to use his operator privileges to /kick her out. It didn’t work; it was like she…

• Birth of the Firefox, Part 11

  by Robotech_Master 8 months ago

  She knew all about the biology, of course—the imperative to reproduce. She had all the knowledge of the Internet at her dispo…

• Birth of the Firefox, Part 10

  by Robotech_Master 8 months ago

  The Firefox flitted through the worlds—virtual and real at the same time, as they were now overlaid on top of each other. If …