Stuck on the mountain
The huge rock had landed on my arms, crushing both and -more importantly- my hands. I was pinned there in the deep of the mountains, and the sun was about to…
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21 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Pleasure, why not?
I told him that I didn’t believe him. Come on! You say that you can just give yourself pleasure any time? Put yourself into a trance that brings “intense…
Casting a net
“A wired connection. How quaint.” He plugs it in, then says “uh?” with a look of surprise. Those were his last words. I stop the playback, my emotions a mix of…
Ocean Sunset
We turned the corner, and the smell of seawater drowned the lavender. “The ocean! Finally!” I promised that we’d go together to these cliffs and see the ocean…
A Treatise On The History of Procrastination
I thought the title sounded very good. The rest of the page beckoned, my blinking cursor like the black shadow of a door left ajar. “Nah, I’ll write it…
The Land is The Enemy
The landscape exuded hostility. Even the sun was too hot, the air too dry. The visitor looked straight ahead, eyes focused on the group of trees up ahead. He…
The Present Lives On
The water is warm under the tropical sun. Becky’s pirate ship sails proudly within arm’s length, the old cookie box with its little toy sailors. It makes a…
day of awesomeness
When I woke up this morning, I knew right away that something was different. The day was ripe with possibilities. Today was special. I smiled. Today was going…
On the line
Listen to me. I was young, I was poor, I was foolish. I had nothing, and I wanted everything. I believed their promises when I dialed and told them what I…
Running spell
It was almost time. Sana’s tears were streaking behind her, taken by the wind as she ran. The rising moon made almost everything black or silver - only her…
Life and Formatting
I waited. And waited. Waited some more. What was I waiting for, you ask? To be big enough, you see. I wanted to be a grownup! My parents thought it was…
The Legion
She patted the bench next to her, inviting me. She had yarn on her lap and those young hands that knew twenty ways to kill went back to crocheting. The pink…
The Meeting
The crowd flows through main street, no weapon visible, everyone looking the part of the innocent bystander. No weapon detected there so far, either. Unlike…
The stare
The story of my life? Well, I want to start with high school, where we met. I didn’t see her at first - I was too preoccupied with being popular and “cashing…
The Song of One
She sung, and the world stopped. All heads turned to the bright figure spinning from roof to roof. The vendor at the kebab stand froze, change still in his…
The hassle of legality
Hi, my name’s Dee. Don’t be offended if I zone out occasionally - it’s not that my programming’s insufficient, it’s just that I have to zap those watcher…
Never give up.
The railing was cold under my hand; I thought I had made my decision. Then I saw her, radiant in the moonless night. “John,” she said, “never give up.”…
Cracked Insulation
I raise my fist to the heavens and curse the world for the fifteenth time this morning. I have no hope that the situation will ever improve - anger is just a…
Goat to go
China’s a pretty good place, turns out. It’s exactly as his implanted memories describe it. Except the smell - somehow manufactured memories can’t get smell…
Code Monks
Dear brothers and sisters in faith, I am writing to share a recent discovery that may bring reconciliation. Remember that our orders are still very close as we…