Ficlets

Sign In | Blog | Help

• You and Me, in a Blanket of Smoke

  by [pen.up.girl] 17 days ago

  In my dream, the air is humid and hot. The smoke from the swamp fires is laying thick all over the city, and the light from t…

• Nobody Really Cared

  by More Ways Than One 20 days ago

  We watch our favorite video
  As we keep our shoes on
  Waiting to make our great escape
  Thinking that this is it
  When we finally…

• Crumpled Paper

  by Nouvelle Bardot about 1 month ago

  Its Saturday again, another family visit. I usually find myself anticipating Saturdays, then dreading them entirely. But, Sat…

• Her Scream

  by wytherwings about 1 month ago

  There she is. I watch her as she walks in the door and sits down in the third row all the way near the wall, looking at every…

• Now the Vault Holds More Than Money

  by Stovohobo 2 months ago

  The jolt of metal on metal penetrated the eerily quiet atmosphere like a hot knife through butter. Frozen butter, at that.

  L…

• Masks

  by James Haxel 3 months ago

  After three days of work, the mask was done.

  Eric held it up to where it shone, light glinting off of the chrome surface and…

• Lucy

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 6 months ago

  She never smiles. She never speaks. She looks at you so distrusting. The bubbliest, sweetest, grandma-motherly-type person co…

• Coming To Grips {3}

  by Yeah Write! 9 months ago

  “I-I was r-r-r…?” I stuttered.
  “Yes. You were… raped.” the intern said gently. He was seated in the chair across from me …

• Why are you calling so late

  by Ms Kit Kat 9 months ago

  She had gone to open lab for the night she had began to walk back to her dorm on the other side of campus. She had begun the …