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Boarding the orbital mining freighter Irian Jaya, Captain Nordstrom slid his reader card into the alien ship’s mainframe. While the 50 terabyte card transmuted…
Come On Guys!
This is very simple - I'm not happy with the slow traffic around here so let's get going! I want ONE little ficly that stands alone. Any genre, any anything. Mature or not. Poem or prose - whatever YOU want to do. If you were just about to post a ficly, post it HERE. I want one ficly from every active member in our little community at the moment. And then I want you to check every day for new entries, I want you to read them and I want you to comment on them like the good little ficleteers that you are. Call it a warm-up for NaNoWriMo! You have one month. And this will be judged. You will NOT win if you haven't commented on all the other entries. Trust me, I'll check. Clear? =) (I apologize unreservedly for the patronising/aggressive tone - my attempts at tough love never really work *cuddles*)
Challengers
37 entriesA Cloudy Infection: Book 65 in the Larder Keepers QuintTrilogy
“Epi, what is this ingredient. It’s sweet & bitter, like a brown moon, or acid & caramel. It makes my tongue...mmm...flutter, like I’m holding a baby Hira in…
It Happened Again
The dark fingers reached across her bed, curling around her throat. Her eyes prised open as she became aware of the noise. She reached for her phone. It was…
NO CODE
Thoughts were racing a million miles a minute as the voice in my head became soft and calming “here’s the point you decide to stay or go.” The light became so…
53 steps
I held the world record for about five minutes this morning, but it is time to put that behind me now. The home crowd made its love for TeamGB quite vocal a…
Eternity in Fifteen Minutes
My lungs protest, but I fight back. Ten seconds. Count it down. I can feel the vibrations set in. Not yet. The borders of things find sudden focus. Hold it…
Gone
Tendrils of mist crept along the ground, clawing their way slowly toward the decrepit house in the withering village. It snaked under the doors and through the…
Imperfect
He drops a series of kisses on my neck like slimy, wet bugs, categorically unwanted. “I love you,” he whispers “I love you, too,” I say. To me, the words are…
Son of Darkness, Servant of Death
Reeve extended his twilight tinted wings, flexing them and arching his back to better stretch them. Because they’d been trapped under a sweatshirt for a full…
The Title of Twenty Titles
The clocks ticked over to a new day, as the stampede of great grey mammals came roaring down the road. A drummer got crushed. I couldn’t help but wonder what…
The one that stands alone
Every day it was the same thing. Wake up, catch the first breeze of fresh morning air, before it got polluted with exhaust fumes. Looking out over the city…
Milk Bears, My Dear Child
“Shawn, what’s your favorite animal?” Ivy’s legs swung over the side of the scholar’s desk, little bits of mud flecking off from her rain boots. Shawn decided…
Into the Floorboards
He looked at me, holding his backpack by its strap, suspended above the kitchen floor. I just stood there, gripping the counter, dumbly looking back at him…
Room with a View
This morning, she woke to blue skies streaked with clouds still slightly pink from the rapidly retreating dawn. A vast panorama of trees showed red, orange and…
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Trees
The memory of you is clinging to me like the snow on so many trees rooted to the ground, alive but going nowhere. Sometimes I forget I’m not those trees…
The Lonely God
He walks slowly, each lumbering stride carrying him a dozen leagues. Entire villages are crushed beneath his feet; whole nations are shaken by his passing. He…
Bad Luck Upon Bad Luck
With a jerk and tinny screeching noise the elevator came to rest at some point between floors 13 and 16. I hadn’t been paying attention, not that it matters…
Fitting the evidence into our preconceptions
I sweep my weeping child up in my arms and hold him close. He wraps his legs around my waist and I drop my hands to support him under his bottom and to stop…
Jack & The Barfstalk!
My eyes twitch. My hands plastered to the sides of my head, I scream internally from the torture I was just exposed to. “Why is this story famous?!?! It’s…