The Hell Picayune-Intelligencer
The Prince of Darkness came home today, back to the Pit, back to the city of Dis, wherein lurks the Throne, lashed together with the Hatred Engine. At the…
Shorty
19 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2010, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Wraithvoice
They found the rosetta. It was in one of the dark places, the deepest part of humanity’s beginning, where nobody had been in thousands of years, hidden from…
The Process of Accessing One's Benefits
I like to imagine a lever. The lever is connected to a spigot. From the spigot flows cash money. I am one of few entitled to collect from this spigot. Before I…
"Idealogues and Iconoclasts: My Time With Quid" pg. 232
the summer of 2078. It was at this point that Quid admitted to me that he had spent his life accumulating relationships with various women because he was…
Amalgamishmashion 2: The Machinimishmashioning
He checked the rigging on their sub-orbital schooner one last time; Sergeant Zombie knew that these synthetic hyper-nylon ropes could snap without any warning…
The Meaning of Loss
I used to wonder where the clouds go. I didn’t notice for years that I had stopped asking that question. Slowly, my inquiry drifted over the horizon. I looked…
Proctology, c. 2357
“How was your vacation in the Horsehead Nebula?” “It was pretty good until I caught Double Ebola.” “That sounds unpleasant.” “Yeah. The only symptom to speak…
War Stories
We were sitting at a table, four men from four wars. Orville told us about D-Day, how he ran up the beach, terrified that any of the Germans in their pillbox…
Strive
There’s a THUMP, but I feel more than hear it, because I’m already gone, faster than the sound can catch me. I try as hard as I can in this first burn…
Beholder
Jack lost his virginity with the day manager at Bojangles’. She was on break; he was supposed to be cleaning the store’s grease trap, though it could easily be…
The Wordmines of Mt. Expository
Gug pushed cart down tunnel. Boss says need articles, so he went to get articles.
Sartorobot
Frank had an idea while he was unloading the new shipment at Finnigan’s Menswear. They told him there’s no market for clothes that also recharge one’s…
The Last Season
The men in silver clothes and pointed hats came first to take our wives. The old ones sent our peace-man, the one who talks to the other tribes, to the men in…
Secret Mullets
A beat up old Camaro pulls up to the gas station, playing Bon Scott-era AC/DC, and a beat up old dude gets out. He was wearing clothes, I’m certain, but all I…