Trick Card
“Note, dear lady, that the card does not face you, but faces me. It is inverted.” The overwhelming dread I felt a few moments ago broke, and I quite…
Tesseract
97 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Everywhere's a Beach
One sunny and clear day has collided into another. I can’t recall the last time it was a dark or stormy night. Almost nothing but sand as far as the eye can…
Target Practice
Dear Sir or Madam, Though we apologise for the inconvenience, we appreciate your passive participation in our latest training exercise. Our children are our…
A Memorandum
A Memorandum Regarding the Subject of Barona: The poisoning of the Ecosystem at the end of the last Great War continues to claim lives through the claw and…
Exultation
Carver jotted down some notes and nodded slightly. “The experience is different for each person based on personal history, mental schemata, neuro... I’m sorry…
By Night, By Day
The town butcher initially gave me some strange looks when I asked for two freshly slaughtered cattle. No cuts, nothing... Just the raw meat. “I’m hoping...” I…
...and that's the News.
“That’s the news for tonight, but we have one final note before we sign off for this evening.... “Many of you - especially our long-time viewers - have written…
Skyborne
Born of the sky of the sky will it end. This Falcon my wing, my solace, my friend. From time of egg and babe the two of us were bound Sent to join the Skyborne…
24/7
Born midway through Seven Twenty-Four Seated on cloud Seventy-Nine. I’d love Seven to hold coins of Twenty-Four Carat gold to make life Twenty-Four/Seven just…
Retroactive Illumination
My life has been a full one. I’ve accomplished what I set out to do. I sit here surrounded with not only those who have accompanied on my journey through this…
Rain Rain Windy Windy
Rain Rain Windy Windy Soak my brain and send me spindy Charging forward through deluge rushing toward dry refuge Safely home Look outside Sun-filled dome…
The Number Blue
The number blue is real to me As true as the color seven. I’ll taste what you wrote Savoring every mote Synaesthetically rising to heaven.
No One to Forgive
My sins are all my own. I seek no absolution. The light of truth to me was shown I’ll remove this human pollution. Forgiveness cannot be granted nor will it be…
A Tesseract Unfolded
I am a Chronicle. I travel not only through space and time, but probability as well. A modern-day minstrel gathering mysteries from far and near. In my…
Time's Up (4)
He made his way through the hallways with his escort and arrived facing a nervous looking Med Tech in a lab coat and a facemask. “We’ve found something about…
Not a Moment to Waste (3)
The next day, Jain woke from a fitful sleep. He’d been working on all night and had finally been ordered to bed. The splitting headache was rationalised as…
Not a Moment to Fear (2)
“There’s a Sensor blip bearing down on us, but there’s no solid ID.” The lad handed a DataPad to Jain, showing him what he couldn’t describe. Jain, however…
Not a Moment to Spare (1)
Over hundreds of years of military history, the Duffel Bag has never gotten much smaller in size. Jain released his bag onto the bunk with a thud, then took a…
Daedalus' Echo
I leave my words etched in stone for those to come after me. Stone... wood... blood... flesh... All of the elements of construction known to Man have formed…
More Than Just Letters on a Page
The hours of slaving over his workbench had finally set the stage for his research. He’d read the ancient tome countless times, but there’s only so much one…