A Monster
A tall, masculine looking woman approached the podium before the amassed biologists and geneticists. There were murmurs in the crowd they had expected Hans…
John H Reiher Jr
30 stories written on Ficly, 2009, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Squeal Piggie, Squeal
Sitting on the porch of his “mobile home” smoking a joint was John, a shiftless layabout living off welfare and what he stole out of people’s cars. He was…
Food Porn
I dipped the cherry tomato into the cream sauce and held it up by its stem for her to bite. Leaning forward, she englobed the ruby red orb with her lips, drips…
Calm Before the Storm
It started out cold and damp, promising rain later that night. She knew this and bundled up in expectation. She would get to the meeting in plenty of time…
Going South
She turned south and roared down the road on her hog. The sounds of thunder getting louder. “Damn marauders,” she said into the wind her blond hair sailing…
Cowboys and Dinosaurs
He rode into Lodestone on the back of green and red Struthiomimus. At his hip was his Smith & Wesson. In his saddle holster, his .30-.30 Winchester. On his…
Ringworm
In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality. His foot-length queue was white, dotted…
The Simulacrum
“I love you,” she said, her silicone arms holding me close. I smiled in return and turned her off. It was getting harder and harder to be with her these days…
Future Conspiracy
The phone rang again. “Hello?” “Hey, is this Eric Flores of 2009?” “Todd? Is that you again? Are you really in 2014?” “Never mind that. Are you Eric Flores in…
Pledge Dive
“Reach into your phone and pledge right now!” buzzed the feed from the International Public RSS feed. Jules ignored the plea, while he surfed the different web…
Draw, Ya Sidewinder!
The man in black barely tilted his head up and said “I reckon I didn’t hear you correctly. What did you say?” The young man stood his ground and said, “I said…
Down the Rabbit Hole
“...So, where does this new mass and energy go?” asked the chief researcher for one of the LHC projects. The team leader sipped his coffee and said, “We think…
Everything you know is...
It was a private conference when the team leader at the Large Hadron Collider spoke the news. “So far, over the past year of successful runs on the LHC, we…
Lick The Plate Clean
I pushed away from the table, feeling a bit woozy. Even though I weigh my food, I have to pace myself or my supercharged digestive system will spike my system…
All You Can Eat
I could eat a horse. No, literately, thanks to that pill Gea the Trelean had given me, I could eat a complete horse in one sitting. Each bite would be digested…
The Price of...
20 years ago, we thought that we could kill spam emails by banning and filtering them. Companies thrived on providing anti-spam filters and blocks, but the…
The Brass Ring
I looked through the peephole and saw an older man dressed like a Southern Colonel, right down to his Colonel Sanders mustache and goatee, only his was salt…
The Brass Star
It was one of the brass stars that marked where Union Troops had shelled the unfinished capital building during Sherman’s March. I looked left then right, and…
The Dog Walker
I’m a dog walker. All kinds, big and small, I take dogs for a walk and let them socialize with other dogs. Normally I don’t listen in to their conversations…
The Future is Now!
“Welcome to the Future” blared the rusting speakers. “Prepare to be amazed!” Claude stood on his toes to see over the railing at the diorama of the future…