Come One! Come All!
Oscar H. Ringling, the forgotten brother, was always on the outer with his family. Maligned by his father when he decided at an early age to not follow in…
scratch'n'scrawl
56 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2011, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Perhaps some things should be left just as they are.
And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you... It was still the greatest ever finishing line for a song. Ever. From the moment he’d heard Tom’s…
not as it might seem
Although my name may seem to most viewers as being quite obvious in its origin, that of Scratch ‘n’ Scrawl being all about writing, I can asure you that things…
Run For The Hills!
Just to hand...an alert about a new breed of monsters reportedly terrorising our citizens. What the??? Since the IMFA, the International Monster Freedom Act…
This is fiction, I swear it is...
I have never been a mobile phone addict. I couldn’t care about texting, whether it had a flashlight, if it played music, or any other seemingly magical thing…
oh, what a beautiful rainbow...
Being a ten-year-old’s not easy you know. In fact, there are many things that are challenging in my life, even though many adults I’m sure would look at the…
You'd love it, you know you would...
_Dear Rhonda, You’ll probably screw this up before you even read it, but I miss you, and I’ve no-one else to write to. For 27 years we came here, Harold’s B&B…
NYC
Driving my usual route from Nashville to Boston, I was surprised to see a young fella standing in the rain on the highway about 70 miles west of Knoxville…
a hot date
He’d known her for what seemed like forever. Hours talking through the magic of keyboards and monitors, but she’d never let him see her, never meeting. As…
Not all doom and gloom.
Sitting at his keyboard, the once-regularly-mirthful-now-more-often-pessimistic young man contemplates which tack this challenge will take. He starts typing…
Town Crier's decree...
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye... Lords, ladies, gentlefolk, and scallywags: You are all granted the greatest honour of hearing the latest law passed by His…
Prep Red, 1975
I don’t remember my first day of school. I know lots of kids cry at the prospect of being away from their mother for the first time, or maybe the thought that…
Prosthetic Curse.
My new mechanical prosthetic hand was awesome, unlike anything I had ever imagined could exist since my accident. My girlfriend was loving it too, as we’d…
I deserve love too!!!
As Dorothea looks at me, very non-committally, just like the previous three times that day, I cannot help but wonder if it will ever change. There’s obviously…
The Big Chill in 10 words
Guy dies. Old friends remember. Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll.
Aaaaarrrggghhhh!
I drove my car Down to the bar, It was a restored 1965 Jaguar. With me my sitar, And also my guitar On the back seat - I felt like a superstar. It wasn’t that…
I didn't mean THIS bridge!
Maneuvering around the pegs while defending my life was going to be rather challenging. Not to mention avoiding the obstacles of the strings also... The rules…
A sense of wonder.
I feel the beating of my heart. More like racing, really. I feel the clamping around my ribs and back. Not uncomfortable at all, actually very snug and…
True Love?
I’ve never felt like this before. Ever. My love for you is totally overwhelming, swallowing me like that biblical whale Jonah once knew. I think of you and I…
Not at 7Eleven...
There were two boys named Elvis in my class. Being grade 4 at Holy Mary’s, most kids knew nothing about the Elvis, but my mother still worshipped him…