The Life and Death of Ingrid Walcott
The Intimate Moments of Ingrid’s Life: The Cafe He sat staring at her while listening to the jazzy lounge music. She took a sip of coffee and glanced in…
Gradual Uprising {LoA}
92 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2012, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Not Today!
She stood in line with him, fidgeting. She knew what she would order, one sugar-free, carmel macchiato venti, non-fat with an extra espresso. That wasn’t…
Not Your Ordinary Bank
Wanted: Person to manage front desk of bank. Applicants must be friendly and able to convince customers that everything is normal and that nothing…
Obra Maestra
Hope. With a crisp image in his mind of how the final figure would look, the sculptor inspected his block of stone. He lifted the chisel and took weary stab at…
A Park in October
Few leaves still clung to the trees of Olde Brook Park. A squirrel darting from one branch to the next distracted a young lady from her afternoon read and the…
Evangelistic Behavior
He lifted the steaming burger to his drooling mouth, nails sinking into the sesame-seed bun like talons on an eagle. A ribbon of scent fluttered past the noses…
ƒ(x)=2x-5
“Is the equation a function?” “Yes.” “Correct.” “Your shirt.” “What is the domain of the equation?” “All real numbers.” “Correct.” _“Your…
On Tuesdays I Make Cupcakes
Marvin had his gun pointed straight at my forehead, and I could see in his eyes that he was picturing the bullet cracking my skull like an egg. Yes, I had been…
Shangri-La of Anorexia
I am forever swimming in a giant chocolate sundae. The walls of the glass are to tall to climb out, but I would never have the urge to leave. The three types…
Old Pots Break Easily
As I watch the slow culmination of my life, I hold my final product. It’s a swan. The clay curved. A long neck. The pure beauty of the creature in clay form. A…
15 words: Part 27
As the police entered, he tried not to think about Washington’s body in the kitchen.
The Foul Ficly
Dear Reader, I just finished reading Spring, the ever faithful friend by Sastina Adeliz. A short, beautiful snippet about the oncoming wonders of a new…
The Brellabee Slug
Timmy and Gracie sat on the ground. They sat and they sat but nothing was found. A rock, a twig, but never a bug. Until Timmy saw it. A brellabee slug. He…
Autumn in a Café
That’s when I saw her, out of the corner of my eye, dipping her tuna melt into a fresh glass of orange juice. My first thought, of course, was actually about…
Amateur Pottery
I have a ball of clay. It is shaped into a perfect sphere. I can change that. I can make it into something beautiful. I can make it into something plain. I can…
Spring!
The internal suffering of all my organs being squished at once is a mere inconvenience in comparison to the mind throbbing headaches that rise up from the…
Jealousy is a Prison
Jealousy is what they feel when they see me on the other side of the metal bars.
The Cancer of My Perfect Life in Suburbia
Every day, I wake up to my normal routine in ‘middle-of-nowhere’ America. Still in my royal-blue pajamas, I enter our cream-tiled, master bathroom. I brush my…
The Bible for Dummies
“_So God made light, then Heaven, then Earth, then animals, then man, then woman, and then told them to be fruitful and multiply, and then a bunch more things…
Losing Scarlet and Sanity to a Raven and a Desk
“Riddle me this…Why is a raven like a writing desk?” said Time deviously, “_If you don’t find the answer, you’ll never see scarlet again and chaos will fill…