The Last Ficly
I said I wouldn’t cry... When I think back over the times I’ve poured my heart out on this site, I can’t believe I never considered a day when it would be…
Abby (LoA)
165 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
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“You told me you don’t like blondes,” she accused, When she caught me looking at a lady in a short white dress, With straw coloured hair round her shoulders…
Kathryn
When she was a grand total of eight years old, her grandmother took her on holiday to the seaside. Devon. It was a wet summer, and they spent most of the week…
Need.
An electric fan, Because I’m scared of silence. A child’s night-light, Because I’m scared of the dark. An alarm clock, Because I’m scared of sleeping. And a…
Last Year
I know. I know I said I needed sleep. But I’m caught between the beat of your heart and my own. You know, I feel you as strongly as anything, Or nothing. Lost…
Autumn
Jim liked Autumn. The leaves had turned, painting rainbows of khaki and auburn, amber and russet, jade and … obsidian across the treetops with an ice cold…
You jump, I jump...
We’ll wander up To Beachy Head, And watch the sun go down. Picnic songs, and Hippie bongs... I swear that we won’t drown. We’ll take a plane To Mount Fiji, And…
January Snow
It’s still snowing … only just … little flakes that fall on the curve of the wind that take a while to reach the white ground in the golden illumination of a…
Bipolarity (why I've been gone for so long)
The world seems too bright in the night these days. But I can’t but begin to deny it. And I don’t know quite how to say the thin words that my heart beats too…
Moment Reflected in an Icicle
“Who’s there?” I lit the match with a single strike. I could feel the flame bringing out the blush of my cheeks, the green of my eyes. And he just stared …
Right Here
Here with a bruise, me Stuck with a fresh bruise. Nothing to lose, me, Nothing to lose. I took up a knife, me Sliced and I sliced. But it didn’t suffice me, It…
Murdered Whores
I stood beside the corpse of the latest victim. The morgue was cold but peaceful, gloomy but strangely tranquil. And I just stood there, staring at the little…
Cancer
I Am Going To Get Cancer. Huh. Funny how life keeps Giving me lemons Like that. Great Grandma died of it, Grandma died of it, Mother nearly died of it When I…
A Hurried Sherlock Moment
“Your hair smells like the Berlin Regent.” Ben commented - a quick whisper that made all five of us jump. “You can smell that?” “It’s the only hotel in Germany…
A Tale of Three (pt 2)
But as the snow fell on the red her silky form rose from the dead And floated through the woods as though her weave was white as Christmas snow. The pale gown…
A Tale of Three (pt 1)
3 dresses, once, all tied up tight, went walking in the grey moonlight - 1 white, 1 red, 1 velvet-black together strolled a well walked track. The crimson…
View from a Skyscraper Roof
It’s hard not to lose yourself, isn’t it? Hard not to let go of everything that truly defines you under the pressure of rage, self-loathing … invisibility. We…
(Rusty)
I’d always found the seats in the Chamber to be the most comfy of any meeting room. Maybe because of the curve of the bench or the softness of the red-stitched…
December
I’m still stuck in December, writing Twelve instead of two. Eight months or ten aren’t different When it’s ten or eight with you. Snow or no snow? Warmth or…
Biology Revision Part 2
The process of meiosis has two distinctive stages. Division 1: the pairs pair up, exchange their chromatids, break up Then a chromosome from each pair goes to…