A Hero's Beginning
Have you heard of the broken boy wonder Who spent his bitter youth torn asunder Knowing he could kill with a single touch And desperate not to use that as a…
remembrancer
155 stories written on Ficly, 2012–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
A Watery Warning
Though talk is cheap there’s always hidden clues On how creatures can live beneath the blue Of an ocean teaming with life and blood If you would only listen to…
Blasphemy
You answer my every prayer with unbearable silence With unending quiet when all I desire are words Have I only dreamed of past answers in thoughts twisted By…
A Fiddle's Tale
Hey diddle diddle Have you heard about the fiddle Who dared to dream of a spoon Who wouldn’t think to laugh At his dreams of flying Over a bright and shining…
Stepping Stones Part 2
D on’t leave me alone with the e nd of shadows p ressing light on my r eluctant e yelids for I am s afe in my s tagnant lifestyle and content with making the…
Stepping Stones Part 1
I have decided that s ome people have an o bvious duty to l et go of a ctual physical contact and t emper sensation with an i mpossible and o verwhelming n eed…
Loving Sex
We’re *making* more with our simple two hearts and limbs together than the letters of “ *love* ” could ever hope to express Within our sweaty shouts *is* an…
In the End
Bullets bring bitter ends to babbling boys Too twisted by teenage recklessness to realize the reality of rape And its critically cruel consequences If only…
How Laughable
Comedy twists the deeply painful Into that which can be spoken of with relative ease Though often used to replace critical contemplation And mistakenly thought…
Lightning Strikes
Call me crazy Call me smart Call me fun Or just a waste But as I dance in tears from a dark gray sky My heart beats faster than a drum Faster than the wisps…
As Flames Die
Campfires cling to blackened logs Their sparks illuminate intimacy otherwise hidden By encroaching darkness A circle of implied closeness Created by the threat…
Black Widow
Death lurks behind a curtain of white lace While shadows dance behind fluttering lashes Her cheeks may be rosy Flushed with anticipation But is it for A tepid…
Adrift in a Fertile Meadow
She lay on a blanket of crushed leaves and flowers Their aroma pungent and sweet But her mind It wandered Left and right Up and down Until white seemed black…
Wish Upon a Star
Dark meets light in an age-old dance of skin Slick with sweat And sounds Too primal to be just moans Though their skin so clearly reflects Their utterly…
A Promise to Return
Daughter, daughter, why do you cry In the forest beneath a dying sun I made a promise with a demon boy That I would go and not return Until stars fade from…
Five Stages
“Earth to Brian.” It’s so beautiful here. I lie on the red sand and stare at stars winking in shared amusement. They sparkle in a sky clear of pollution or any…
The Final Frontier
“Space, the final frontier” The last unexplored territory left to the human race As if we have explored every other aspect Of the world beneath our feet But…
First: Father
You found what you wanted In unworthy arms Stained by fumbling fingers And hasty thrusts You lost what you hated With such passion Beneath a willow tree With…
First: Mother
My dreams of disaster are bearing fruit Ready to be plucked from a snake’s smooth scales And bring to light The fate that will rip away Any last shreds of…
First: Sister
You wished On every star in the sky For time to race instead of crawl For the future to come Faster than a freight train But now you’re back And nothing has…