Waking Up
The trees and grasslands that once adorned the landscape were now a utopian memory. Even the air was gone, replaced by a suffocating gas mixture that was so…
Eric Soiland
21 stories written on Ficly, 2012, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Prologue: Part I
The large sail fish flopped around violently, to and fro, just before the captain walked up and pierced its scaly skin with a short spear. It writhed back and…
Prologue: Part II
I glanced at its eyes briefly in between a few looks at its torso where archaic lungs strained to keep the organism alive. The eyes were two large silver…
Love Inspires Honor
The crowd of people stared at Jim, appalled at what had just transpired. “Boo!” A drunken cowboy slurred. The man sitting next to him chuckled with the other…
Freshly Broken Heart
Jasper’s melancholy would once again consume his daily trials. A broken heart is no way to spend a summer. The continual retreat away from sobriety…
Love Has An Expiration Date
Slumped against the wall leading into the basement, Jasper peeled back the layers of consciousness. Escape was his only hope to survive the onslaught. He…
Freefall
The cliff on the side of the mountain was large. Large enough that Jack had time to regret the decision to jump off. Large enough that adrenaline had time to…
John Doe
The fuzzy parts of my memory are smeared with shadows as I try to recollect where I am. Darkness pervades my field of vision with random scatterings across a…
Play Well
It was almost perfect. Simon surveyed his masterpiece while walking around it. A 360 degree perspective would reveal any flaws in the structure. Just need one…
You Know Who You Are
Torment my mind and dispatch my hope to a barren landscape Wither and cry until nothing cheers me up…tangled in this sordid tale A farce about love...about my…
Pass It On
The ground was smoldering around the edges of the burnt depression. Just moments ago there was several living breathing people there. Donovan slowly walked…
Disappearing Act
“Ugh! Why do I have to do this?” He exclaimed to the sky with his arms outstretched. “God damn it all.” A sob in the back of his throat swallowed the last word…
Rock The Boat
“Do you like being wrong?” Claud said with as little disdain as he could muster. His eyes stayed focused on the woman in front of him. His breathing was calm…
Burning Bridges
Of course there was never the intention of harming anyone. Sometimes things escalate and the result is a whirlwind of destruction. Anything in its treacherous…
Rock The Boat
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