Personal Assistance
“Cindy, bring me a chinchilla.” Cindy sighed as the intercom next to her bed snapped to life. As the personal assistant to Rupardt Heldt, she was used to…
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9 stories written on Ficly, 2009, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
A Camp Out He'll Never Forget
“Dude, why were you just pissing in your gas tank?” “Oh, uh, heh. I didn’t think you could see that. I can, uh, well, my piss is flammable.” “Your piss...what…
Self Sufficient
“Next!” “Uh, hi. I’m Biofuel.” “Biofuel, huh? And what can you do for us?” “Well, I, uh, I...excrete a liquid that can power any internal combustion engine.”…
Portents
They showed up the same morning on different doorsteps. Two baby girls, each in a small basket with a mewling kitten. Each doorstep was owned by a childless…
Falling from Crystal
“He has fallen, and he shall be recognized as anathema. None shall touch him, none shall know him, all his previous good works shall be tainted with his…
A Quiet Child
Standing on an Edinburgh street corner eating lunch, he could still feel the pull, the call drawing him northwest. On his way back to the train station he…
Alone No Longer
“Arthur, you’ve made an amazing discovery, and deserve recognition, but you can’t be serious.” “You don’t understand. This isn’t for me, this is for everybody…
The Human Cannonball's Greatest Fear
“Mark, what are you talking about? You fly every day!” “That’s completely different. That’s more like a very long jump. This is getting in an oversized…
Alone in the Deep
It had been alone for so long. Nobody and nothing else around for interaction. For amusement, It would track comets and asteroids, calculate trajectories, then…