Of Gadgets and Gizmos
*Berlin, Wisconsin* On shelves of the interior of this ordinary-seeming building, lie various gadgets and gizmos, and a few boxes filled with odd materials…
Clotifoth
14 stories written on Ficly, 2009, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Measure of Misery
Can you see my sorrow? How do you measure misery? Is it the dreams, once had Now forced into razor-sharp Shades, the shadows of my aspirations? Is it the…
{Utopia} Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is quite the author. Unlike many of the {Utopian} authors featured in this challenge, he wrote solely for the scientific literature of the day…
Epitaph for Jocasta
Who was Jocasta, o Queen of Thebes? So Hast lived she, Image of beauty. The intelligence of the gods, The best of our lives Reasonable, to see Through the…
Nentar, Quadblade
A golden day, afternoon bringing a bit of light to what looks like a field of pure gold. In a path through this gold, a single man walks through. His hands are…
Stadt, Axemaster
Dressed in simple furs, a man walks out of the Jungle. Bloody. Muscled. Dirty. Odorous. The sun rises in the background. He walks along a long road into town…
Radta, Holy Priest
Radta walked into the cathedral with an air of brightness that day. She wore her finest white silken robes, with reddish fringe around the edges. She resonated…
Pelbe, Outlaw Gunner
The royal viceroy laughs at Pelbe. “Filthy beggar!” Pelbe sighes. His red and white uniform was dusty and patched, unlike the other gunners whose uniforms…
The Story Begins
Four random people from across the world. Each almost completely different. Except for one thing. Each of them has the will to fight. The will to live against…
Question of Logic
Day 206 since nuclear fallout. Diary entry number 150. The sand is getting quite old. Wandering further is generally useless but the local supplies are…
Depopulation
You notice that the world begins to be less crowded. Lines are shorter for things; and eventually, non-existant. Overpopulation problems, you hear from the…
Overgrown
Nature overtaking the civilized world Like day overtaking night Like a flag being unfurled Draped over the human blight! The cities of yore show their wear The…
Start of the Cycle
People lose their money. People lose their homes. Peoples’ farms dry up. People move west. People lose their minds. People vote. People kick from office…
Copyrighted
I stand myself up at the end of a long valley. It is truly something awful; I barely manage to stand under the weight of my metal trappings. The sky is a…