Words Are A Kind Of Magic
Despite coming from a poor family Kep had always believed that his dream of becoming a Wizard would one day come true. Ever since he’d heard of magic it held a…
Catcher in the Why
20 stories written on Ficly, 2011, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
How Many Roads?
It often disturbed and amazed Stephen Donald that the world defined him as an adult. He taught English at the local high school and knew that amongst the…
Time Will Tell.
“Have you ever used a gun before Thom?” “No.” “I didn’t think so.” She was about to tell him the safety was still on, to show she wasn’t afraid of him, when he…
Daytime.
“Thom once your eyes have adjusted to the sunlight I want you to tell me what you can see.” The petit woman’s tone of voice told him very little about who he…
Reading To The Blind (Part 2)
Mr. Corke made a bad first impression. He had a short, rude way of addressing people, and he smelt funny, like an onion soup, which was one of Jeanette’s least…
Reading To The Blind (Part 1)
It had been nearly six months since Jeanette had first volunteered to read to the blind. In that time she’d read for a kind old man named Mr. Gunston. He’d…
Trying to keep track of time
Thom came to in a padded cell, which actually made him laugh a little. Padded cells were the punchlines to jokes, they belonged to scenes in horror movies…
Fire.
There was an explosion at the power station and a fire broke out. It was a few miles from our house but it was a big enough bang to wake all of us. By the time…
Lights out, time for...
There was a moment of pure stillness unlike the world had ever known before. Summer felt like all her insides had been hollowed out and that she was a fragile…
The Creature Part 2
The line of land they were following could hardly be described as a path, yet every rock they stepped on, every tree root they walked around and every branch…
The creature part 1
Lachlan was only following Anne out into the woods because he was bored and thought it would be fun to watch her try to explain her latest fantasy. He loved…
No time to tell.
He looked over at the man who’d been watching him the whole time he was on the phone. My captor. The strange man with his alarming shock of blonde hair that…
You'll kill for these bargains.
Sophia had the dream again. The one where she was choking the soul out of Mindy, and just as her life force was almost drained from her, and she was about to…
Wiz bang!
Dr. Wz. Agrimon Crocumn would be his full title. He had become a doctor first, as had been his families expectation, but once his studies had finished and he…
The secret
The note stayed in Kasey’s pocket for the rest of the game, and when she and her friends decided to go get ice cream at the mall afterwards, the note came…
Picking at the pocket.
Tim covered his face with his hands from embarrassment, unconsciously becoming the proverbial ostrich burying his head in the sand. He was in school assembly…