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Heavy Landings
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Posted 9 years ago -
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Posted 6 years ago -
Tropes of the Trade: Shaken With a Twist
Jacqueline signaled the bartender for another mojito. “It's not obvious to me.”
“Since your attack on Isla Quiribi, F.A.C.E. has split and some enterprising splinters are exploring a kind of freedom that didn't exist under Dr. Whitman.”
“You need me to …
Posted 8 years ago -
Into A Dead Zone
I took a long drag off my cigarette as we passed a sign saying "insert city" population "insert number."
At this point they all blended together.
I flicked the butt out the window at nothing in particular.
"Nothing in particular" could have been this t…
Posted 8 years ago -
The Kranken-Bruder's Tale
There was a prince, and one princess;
She was an angelle, he a mess.
The prince called out for his man-maid
To clean the room. The lemonade
They drank was sweet. The fine chefette
Had used ten lemons; then she'd set
The sugar from her sugar binne
The pinq…
Posted 6 years ago -
Unfamiliar Ceiling
A glint of dark light. A pitch-black night sky, if you will, crisscrossed by dark galaxies, stars, constellations, darker even than black...
Nick awakens with a full-body shudder, and the monitor starts beeping furiously. A moment later, the pain hits h…
Posted 9 years ago -
Use this to key in student grades after logging in
It's time to write, to start the rite
It's time to key in grades tonight,
For if I'm late, procrastinate,
They'll thump the ones who hesitate.
And so again I fetch my pen
The red one I use now and then
To do my chores and give out scores
And toss them out…
Posted 6 years ago -
Corners
I drag a finger along a wall as I walk around the room. I can feel the grainy surface of drywall and paint. Approaching the corner, my fingertips lift off the surface slightly, pulling further away as I draw closer to the junction of the adjoining wall.
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Posted 8 years ago -
Winter's Wards
Shy child in tatters
Winter's ward
Too weak and cold
To lift her sword
How hast thou come here?
Stumble toward
My outstretched arms, dear waif!
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Sweet sprite of whimsy!
Tumbling round
The fairy circles
On the ground,
Be'est fille or faery,
Thou hast foun…
Posted 8 years ago -
Class M
There are no new planets
Any more than there are new kinds of people
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These planets around Trappist-1
Have been there, perhaps waiting for someone
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To notice them, to be excited, rewarded in their hopes
That they would somehow exist
.
In the great dark …
Posted 8 years ago -
Eve, as told by Adam
"Eve?...if ya ask me, God set 'er up fer failure."
"...bless 'er heart, but Eve never loved me. Well, she loved me like a person loves another, 'specially since there was so few of us. I suspect she was...more of a fella', in the romance department."
"M…
Posted 9 years ago -
The Sick Woman
I hurry back home with the other half of the loaf. I need to get home before the screaming starts and the nosy neighbours start asking questions again. She is asleep on the stained red velvet settee. She has been asleep for the whole day. Her breath is sh…
Posted 9 years ago -
Lucky bloody you
Well turns out it wasn't no cop anyhow, it was my uncle bloff and he just wanted me to sign the christmas cards, like who ever heard of an avunclular member of my extended family wanting me to sign off on a christmas card in feburary? Sure wasn't normal, …
Posted 8 years ago -
horizon fading
As I lie comfortable in my cosy yellow-orange bed I listen Anna and little angel are downstairs
chatting and giggling, laughing and playing, generally having fun I just lie here sandwiched between my silky duvet and bed melting my worries away. F…
Posted 8 years ago -
Life As You Know It
Sleep... eludes me.
I am not the master of my own time.
Events occur around me, unbidden, unwilled. Control is an illusion.
Do not believe, children. Do not believe what your elders taught you. You exist only as an instrument of entropy, your will is not…
Posted 2 years ago -
002 C
Story is marked as mature
Posted 8 years ago -
Scorpion
Brass tinkled on the workshop floor. Beckton closed the bolt again, but didn't pop up for another shot immediately. Flame had caught on the solid wood of the workbench, and the heat haze and smoke made it hard to see - only compounded by runes on the unde…
Posted 7 years ago -
Smoke And Daggers, Part 1
In another city, on the other side of the world and two weeks after Larry's unfortunate disappearance, CIA Special Agent Peter Irving put on his dropsuit. The dropsuit bore a striking resemblance to matte-black scuba gear, which was no accident - in fact,…
Posted 9 years ago -
The Darkness (2/2)
Well, it's hard to stay chipper, to keep up my hope.
Such dark thoughts crowd my mind in a throng!
As bad news piles like snowdrifts upon the steep slope,
I don't think the descent will take long...
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As a child, full of life, I had power to spare
Ah, wha…
Posted 8 years ago -
Exploration of the Sin of Procrastination
I'm such a loser.
There are a million excuses for not doing what I know I should do. Still, I don't do it.
I avoid it until the guilt is so heavy on my heart that I have to alleviate the pain. I have to stop not doing it and face it and just do it.
I…
Posted 9 years ago -
Burning Questions: Try to open the back entrance's door
Taking your heart in your hands, you leap over the line of fire. You're right up against the doors, but not yet touching them. They are glass, with a frame of metal, and there is a pushbar that is also made of metal.
Posted 8 years ago -
Fin
There's no experience quite like it.
The rush of being free...
...
She'd done it. She'd actually done it. That lingering pressure in the back of her mind-- gone. She didn't have to worry about the fight being worth it anymore, because it was.
...
Ri…
Posted 5 years ago -
The Story
There are no sensory nerves in your brain; you cannot see, feel, smell, hear, or taste anything that goes on there. By the time you first became aware of the Story, it had already insinuated its tentacles throughout your brain and it was far too late for …
Posted 5 years ago -
Never Quit, Just Changed Format
It had been fourteen days five months and one year since her last Ficlatté. She'd nearly forgotten how to write one. Most pieces she had been writing were Tweet length, capturing and enrapturing a new audience. Then there was the collection of short stori…
Posted 5 years ago -
Gunfire: The Partnership
Ryle was a powerful force, to say the least. He provided an impetus, an undeniable single-minded focus on the task at hand that defied setbacks, distractions and complications. He would have been a superb operator in any scenario.
What I brought to the p…
Posted 10 years ago