Reminded
Those eyes! So dark they glow, like the twin runes on his shirt. Our gazes meet; a former self comes out. Ragged breathing, racing heart. Remnants of a world…
Lancet
27 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2010, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Lovings
The grasshoppers sung as loud and the stars shone bright as ever as she stared up to them. Dew settled on her naked body, cooling the fever, washing off the…
Crossroads
He weighed the two documents against each other. More than two thousand years with all their thickness in his left hand, and a mere three hundred in the right…
The Phoenix
My skin is gold - an armor of pride, a shell smithed by the raging storm. Precise angles on my face abide the rule of nature from which I was born. My blood…
My Agenda
Mom... just stop it. Right now. I see through your disguise, your nauseating smile. You gave birth to have a pet you can torture. Don’t tell me you love me…
The Cockiness of Poverty
-Tickets please! He cut through, as if sweeped by the force of the crowd. A finger poked his shoulder. -Are you deaf? They remained standing, though, and he…
The Convert
When the famous postmodernist’s website was taken down, we wondered what happened. He was on the news recently for having survived a plane crash, so his fans…
Meritocracy
Merit medals pinned on your skin, as if they meant something. Children at your side like another set of things you can be proud of. Sometimes the children have…
Nostalgic...?
I never seem to know how I get here... I just do. In the garbage can... it almost feels like home. For instance, being still alive and still female is kinda…
A Brush With Fate
It was an ordinary day, happy even. He just had his thesis title submitted and was crossing the yard to get to the ATM. The plan was to get home for the…
Speaking Out For My Race
You know it all. You know it’s wrong - and not just wrong, but torturous, frightening, pure evil. You see kids doing stuff which other kids don’t do. Looking…
Mozart and the Whale in 10 Words
Aspie couple acts embarrassingly normal when faced with emotional challenges.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
I am your Creator. I like that sentence. It’s one of those sentences that are true and yet contradict themselves. What do you mean? I am the programmer whose…
The Beginning
He lived in a cave just like everyone else. He liked to tell stories. He was single, so one night he stared sleeplessly at the stars, wondering how to increase…
An Animal's Fear
You say you’re not scared, but the very fact that you exist contradicts that. You’re so scared that you’re afraid that even admitting that will somehow…
Preparation
Okay, here we go. Whoa, I’m scared. What the hell am I scared of? This is what I want, right? Anyway, it’s just practice yet. Checking flow. OK. Reclining…
Age Is But A Number
She knocked on the door. A smiling old woman answered, looking surprised. - Hello - she said hurriedly -, is this Exit? - Yes, it is. Why? - I’d like to join…
Phone Call: The Netherworld
...because I can’t tell you about the horrible atrocity that happened today. Because you can’t help me not to screw up again (oh, you didn’t even know about…
Alternative TJ Universe
Okay, we can spend our summer holidays on the Moon and the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Boring piece of rock, but you can’t see even that because you’re…
New Dark Ages
Cyberpunk was dead, and utopias were dead. The sky was dead, the earth was dead, only the masses of people were alive. Or were they? The Great Inquisitor set…