from the Ficly archive

suncrush

11 stories written on Ficly, 2009–2010, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com

  1. Decisions

    JP was a good friend. JP was also worth about 15 million dollars. I was there to meet him when he got off the plane from South America. I helped him get set up…

    Sep 14, 2010

  2. A City Unchanging

    In the city of Marmor, though many cook, there is no smell roasted meat. Though many fantastic meals are laid out on the tables, they are never consumed. Trees…

    Sep 14, 2010 sequel (1)

  3. Prisoners of a Summer Sun

    With our yachts destroyed, the fishers ignored us. What threat could we ever be to them with rafts lashed of wheat stalks? Those few of us who remained decided…

    Sep 14, 2010 sequel

  4. The Strange Gift of Adam Fisher

    Adam Fisher had an unusual gift. He first knew it when he built a cathode ray tube out of his sister’s Power Wheels Jeep when he was 7 or 8. He was asked to…

    Jul 8, 2009 (2)

  5. Everyplace

    In my travels I came to the city of Güzel Kitaplar. Every home a library, every library a home. “What manner of place is this?” I asked. “This place is…

    Jul 8, 2009 sequel (5)

  6. The Drop Goal

    The score was 33-31. The hooter had gone; the game was only waiting for the ball to go dead. He was 37 in a young man’s game. He hadn’t had a start in years…

    Jul 8, 2009

  7. Winter Generation

    Longyear orbits within the Habitable Zone of the blue giant Atlantica once every 80 years. It has only one large landmass, at about 18 degrees north latitude…

    Jul 8, 2009 (1)

  8. The Maiden Gets an Agent

    As I was saying, the Maiden, Adelaide, was lost in the Woods, and the weather was getting worse. A cold drizzle started to soak the Maiden’s gown even more…

    Jul 7, 2009 sequel (2)

  9. Lost

    Well, this was new. He was lying down, on his back, he realized after a moment. He did a quick mental check--yes, two hands, two feet. He could move…

    Jul 7, 2009 (1)