First Endearing Interlude of the Good Captain Seren
“Huppe!” Captain Seren cried in joy. “You’re alive!” “Yes, sir!” Huppe panted, ecstatic to see his captain was indeed alive and fairly well. His rush down the…
Intertidal Incident
9 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2011, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
The Melancholy of Funeral
I sat next to him on his couch and listened. “The porch boards are beat up. Put splinters in my feet. I’ll dig ‘em out with a knife if they get bad enough…
The British White Bookstore
Heads up, said Sarah, we had something strange. Marguerite nodded slowly. We worked at a bookstore with big white cows drawn on its sign. Sarah explained…
Franklin Goes To Work
Franklin came in with a dour expression. I looked up from my desk, briefly considered it, but did not inquire. “Schedule made yet?” he asked. “Almost,” I said…
An April Morning
Franklin Walton watched his hands in the mirror as he tucked the tail of his blue shirt into his pants. He saw that his tie stopped a full inch above his belt…
Entropy Approximately
I thought as I walked: about my bad elbow, about invasive plant life, about getting a tattoo, about who changes the class strata. I thought about writing a…
The World's Most Dangerous Document
The document contains verbiage that could bring catastrophe to millions. The proper, or front, side of the page contains three paragraphs of text…
47 Minutes with Hugh Vance
Hugh Vance is three-fourths Raskolnikov and four-fifths Sindbad the Sailor. There’s some overlap there, yes. He is also one-sixteenth Cherokee which explains…