Reality Television
Welcome back to American Verdict, the show where you are the jury! All around America, you and people just like you have decided the final outcome. Over the…
DredZed
20 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2012, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Barter System
“I’m sorry, but you’re already overdrawn. With the collateral you’ve put down, it would be nearly impossible to give you anything more.” “I’m not asking for a…
Backup
“Can I help you?” I ask the man entering my office. “As a matter of fact, detective, I think you can,” he says, easing himself into a chair on the other side…
Cold Steerage
Cryostasis sucks. Unfortunately, with Earth’s economy the way it’s been ever since the extrasolar colonies started exporting more than they import, the only…
Preacquaintance
Hands stuffed deep in my jacket pockets, I stand waiting in an all too familiar alley. I just couldn’t keep myself away from this place, despite repeated…
An Introduction
You are here. A moderate sized rock, mostly covered in water and shrouded in a mix of gasses, orbiting around a typical yellow star. The birthplace of a…
Case Closed
As he surveyed the scene, a smirk tugged at his lips. “The butler did it,” the detective said.
Providence
As the lid of the cryo pod closes, I reflect on our lost potential. We had been well on our way to improving the human race. Unfortunately, not everyone shared…
No Regrets
The priest asks if I have any last words, as they strap me down to the table. I have no words for him. My life was lived justly, punishing those who needed to…
Mercy
The war of humans against machines, the same old story that science fiction authors always loved to write about, the war I fought. Thankfully, in this version…
Sacrifice
“So it has come to this, my old friend.” He can’t hear me, of course. He is too far gone for that. His breathing is ragged, his body shuddering uncontrollably…
Home
I remember Menoetius. I remember returning from my first visit to the Capital, our ship cruising through the gateway into orbit, and being told that we would…
Residual Quintessance
I awake with a start, still feeling the sting of a shock gun on the back of my neck. Prying an odd piece of metal and plastic off my forehead, I notice my…
Memoraphilia
I curse the fact that my dealer is a traditionalist as I turn the corner into the dark alley, the heads up display in my glasses warning me I’m going off the…
Defiance
Two survivors. One laying in a pool of his own blood in the corner, barely breathing. The other crawling slowly across the rubble and gore coating the floor…
In the End...
As I ponder the limitless expanse of space and time before me, I try to remember what it was like to be human. Of course, never having been one, that is…
Last Gasp
Almost there, she thought as she dragged herself down the corridor. She could see the doorway ahead, and hear the sounds of the creatures behind her…
Alone
Hello, my name is Colonel James. Of course, it probably doesn’t matter, since I doubt anyone will ever read this. But I still feel the need to write it. Odd…
Silence
I can’t stand parties. It’s the noise. That hum and murmur of dozens of voices beating on me from all directions. Even with my implants set to tune out any…
Old Friends
It would soon be time for the harvest. The tractor’s intelligence unit understood that was why the old man was upset. It listened patiently as he grumbled…