Frozen
The frigid air raised its ominous hand and slapped my face. Needles, thousands upon thousands of cold metal pins pierced my nose and forehead. As an icy…
BiC
94 stories written on Ficly, 2012–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
HOLLYWOODLAND
They found her body high above Santa Monica Valley. Under wisps of white clouds, among a mountain’s majestic monochromes, deep dark grays, lucid livid light…
Scrabbled
*Zachary* quickly thumbed through the dictionary. “*You’ve* got to be joking! ‘*Xenogamy*’ isn’t a word.” “*What* do you mean it ‘isn’t a word’? *Valarie’s*…
Big Boy's
The room reeked with the smell of sour grapes. A man shook in his shoes. The clerk, a scarred and scraped brute with firm black hair, a beast with the face of…
Hope's
“Everything I do is wrong. Feels like I’ve never done anything right! Maybe I’d be ‘better off dead’? Probably screw up suicide too.” - Hope
Origin: Dark Horse
Light from the world above faded. Drips of water echoed in the distance. The Baetylus Stone in hand, it casting its eerie glow, Akmal drifted deeper into the…
Origin: The Key
“Tabitha - ‘just vanished’?” Akmal raised an eyebrow. “How?” “I’ve no idea.” Ziegler wiped her bifocals. “We were in the West chamber...” “Of the Barrow?”…
Origin: Old Friends
Traffic has been stopped on the A344 next to Stonehenge. The harrowway is now dug up, but soon to be grassed over... click _...told BBC News ‘the work…
Origin: Secrets
Pearl wings reflected the setting sun, above a sapphire sea, among the wisps of clouds. The cabin phone rang steadily. “At altitudes such as this, Arabic…
Origin: The Royal
Le Royal Hôtel d’Ammān towered over the city like a single white pillar bracing up a boundless azure sky. People gathered as a long black limousine pulled…
Origin: The Shaft
Night’s shadow fell on the Valley of Moses. Dim light from stone dwellings provided Akmal and his steed a quiet course to the broken arch at the entrance of…
Connections
On August 2, 2083 the orange sky turned to grey. The dawning of that new day forever changed our planet. Cyborgs swarmed through city streets worldwide. Like…
Reactions
The jig was up. Everyone scattered. Another whistle; more gunfire. Joe saw the brick behind him start to splinter. His heart sunk; his legs felt heavy. This…
Origin: The Cave of Thieves
He entered the throat of a tremendous ravine. The arid precipices surrounding him stood more than a thousand feet high and for the most part completely…
Burning Both Ends
William Joseph Eddington walked from chaos to tranquility. Be it all but for a moment, the spinning door of the MSB Building in downtown Los Angeles allowed…
Little Orphan Abi
Their conversation turned placid when the barmaid approached. Bouffant blonde hair billowed over a thin brown hairband. Sea-green eyes hid behind blue-black…
Mounties Against Drunk Equestrianism
Hank pushed through the swinging doors and stared slowly across the sky. He said goodbye to another saloon, in a cold Manitoba town, under another tequila…
Foot the Bill
‘We remind you to please wait until inside the terminal to use any electronic devices.’ It seemed stuck, so he jerked his executive-tote from the…
Hole in the Head
Time and space fell into oblivion. The sleeper slipped into unconsciousness. He found himself again, outstretched on the bed and alone, but the air no longer…
Psychosis
The curtains did not close completely and so light found its way through. With a laptop, in a hotel room on the Strip, he told a story that no one heard. The…