An absence of existence, and therefore, an absence of light.
To be erased from time does not feel like much of anything. Rather, it feels like the absence of feeling, since the emotions don’t, and never did, exist in the…
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10 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2012, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Stars Without Windows Are Only Doors, or How You Were Never Mine
“Could you love me if I ruled the world? If I was the world?” She stood in front of the door, that damn door, with her hand on my face. We both knew the…
Weaponry As An Equivalent To Intimacy
He knew I wouldn’t shoot him. He knew that I couldn’t. He smirked at me, the exact same smirk he’d given me this morning as he walked out my door. He looked at…
sO dArLiNg i hAVe tO eAt tHeM
“They eat your face,” I said. “Everyone knows that.” “They’re just little creatures, with wings ‘n such. They won’t hurt me.” I threw my arm in front of the…
Nonsense Will Not Be Tolerated
A painted sign on the door read *NONSENSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.* Upon closer inspection, he could read the fine print. _By setting foot on the premises…
To The East
The radio station began to fade out, turning to low static. I played with the dial, finding only fuzz, and eventually turned the radio off. The sky was…
Empty Boxes
Our little group walked through her house. It was empty and cold and dead just like she was. We’d all been in her house before, known what it was like when she…
The Bathroom Spider
The spider was watching me. Every single time I sat down on the toilet, it was just there. By the time I could get up to squish it and forget about it, it…
The Queen
My eyes followed the Queen down the hallway as she swung the knock-off Japanese sword she’d been using over her shoulder. She wasn’t really a queen, but she…
Fraction
He’d woken me up and gotten me to come out of the camp cabin by throwing a rock at the window. I almost fell out of bed, it scared me so much. I was always on…