Middling
I didn’t look you in the eye when I left. I didn’t listen to you cry, I didn’t answer when you asked me why I had to go. I didn’t treat you with respect and…
Robert Grey
6 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2011, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Positive
I looked you in the eye when I left. I listened to you cry, I answered when you asked me why I had to go. I treated you with respect and dignity. I gave you a…
Negative
I didn’t not look you in the eye when I left. I didn’t not listen to you cry, I didn’t not answer when you asked me why I had to go. I didn’t not treat you…
The Glade of White Grasses
They called it the Glade of White Grasses. No man knew why it had taken on such a peculiar character. The children loved to go there to play in the summer, to…
5443
When I was six years old, my father got a computer for our home. It was KayPro, monochrome, amber against black. It had some operating system that predated…
Seeking
Slowly, with painstaking effort, a hole began to take shape. The soft earth beneath grass and stone gave way to the shovel with a satisfying sound. Bit by bit…