after the missile
uuuuhh wind - screams - smoke - flames - the shrill of tearing metal - faces of questioning anguish tumbling away - why - why them - why me below - the flaming…
Petros
18 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Genesis
Project X was taking shape. Some of the seams were sloppy, some ragged but they were serviceable. He wiped the sweat out of his eyes and continued linking the…
Never, never put all of your eggs...
The Dyson Sphere was crumpling. The Sphere, as large as Earth’s orbit, enclosed the Sun, and was built from the raw materials of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars…
The last laugh. No, Really!
The Big Crunch Church of The Final Deliverance (BCCOTFD) was on the final countdown. Long ago, it was thought there was not enough matter in the Universe to…
The day the nanobot came Clem had himself a hoot
Clem was resting on a log the day the nanobot came. It arrived in a spaceship the size of a tiny carrot. The nanobot quickly rearranged the atoms of its ship…
...and a bag of hammers please!
Peter was securely strapped to the gurney. Unable to move his body, Peter surveyed this new and exciting life experience. To Peter’s left, ten thousand poison…
Number of the Beast
Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the Federation starship ‘Enterprise’ materialized on the surface of the planet ‘51 Pegasi d’ and was immediately arrested…
Bitter end
When galaxies cross paths, stars rarely collide, astronomers say. But we were not warned about the collateral damage. The city street is full of people…
Just don't do this, OK?
Einstein always said that space was curved. Well, all right then. With the help of a little basic quantum physics (is there any other kind?), I built my new…
Star
Major Peter Burns finished his spacewalk, and holding onto a rail, unhooked his tether. It was so unfair - at that moment there was a flash of light as a…
Worth Waiting For
Mary, the last Christian lay dying. No priest stood beside her to administer the Last Rites. No Charismatic Fundamentalist was there to condemn her to Hell…
A silver lining, oh yes I should think so...
Any successful execution by firing squad results in just one thing: a healthy corpse. In this regard at least, today’s effort was a stunning success. Those…
Catastrophe
_With thundering paws I traverse my kingdom in the merest of moments. Front door to back. Back door to front. The humans tremble and chatter at the mighty wind…
In these here parts, a tolerable day.
Clarice ran. It was catching up. The shambling horror that had pursued her throughout the night was right behind her now. “Help”, she sobbed, through her…
I Have Been Saved.
Silence. And color. I hear nothing, but I remember sounds. Do I really see the colors, or are they just memories, like the memories of sounds? Is this the…
Cousin Spot, this really is too much!
The only evidence was in the toaster. Wait. That’s not entirely true. The only evidence was also oozing out of the toaster and seemed to be increasing in…
Fred's Day
*And it came to pass* that the Reverend Pastor Fred Waldron Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, died and went unto his heavenly reward. Verily, Fred had…
Tipping Point
The collision couldn’t have occurred with greater accuracy. Three hours before, a dead spy satellite was struck by a meteor. It was not destroyed but its…