Southern Monument
Of all your cruelties, the worst was how you broke my love of dreaming.
RoseTone ~LoA~
67 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2015, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Oblique Step
There were a few doorways left, frail on scorched hinges and creaking, but I remember what used to wait behind them.
Bevington
I am dark without you, darling Cross the still and quiet lake As I sail from your fond farewell Into a colder place It is quiet here beside me Where I used to…
Touch Off
“Foarder, where are you?” Her plaintive inquiry was like the meowing of a lost kitten, emerging from the smoldering ruin that wreathed her words in smoke. Our…
Must Not Like Sunlight...
Pain rips me from the floor and stabs me, like a knife, back into reality. In between convulsive sobs, I manage to wrap my shredded hands in... well, it used…
Sentimentimortality
More lovely eyes I’ve never seen Than hers that fade pale blue to green Those gentle eyes that glimmer deep And harbor such a tender strength Nor a sweeter…
Until Your Darkness Combusts
Alas my heart for a weak willed former friend Tell me now how many times I will need to say That until you bring your frail courses to an end This gap you cast…
Vision
Aloft in hues of sickly grey Like poison smoke, it billows Round the air above it stays Draping o’er me like a willow I close my eyes against the sight But…
Epitaph
It wasn’t a cruel coldness killed me ‘twas her indifference caused my heart to burst When ice between her lips had filled My ears full with lies, from the very…
A Call to Arms
It remains to be seen what effect this continuous cycle upon our generation will be. Authors and critics alike have made increasingly radical claims as to the…
Breviloquence
Upon this benighted precipice We hang a scarlet thread And bind it fast upon the head Of those we know no more For surety we take a pledge Of gaudy stones cast…
Dead Air
I could not write I could not dream And yet In retrospect It seemed To me The strangest part Of all these things Was that of all That I would miss The most I…
Foe Paw
Direct from cause and effect I find that on the whole Your abject insensitivity (with respect to the affected attitude of emotional abnormality) Coinciding…
Relic
Upon a promontory dim With face set firm and grim “Once I might have chosen Had I once been him.” Turned from valley view Turned from village glow “Once I…
Abscond
Her taciturn glances had begun to snowball into a relentless flurry of darting eyes. A ripple of motion across the discrete edges of the ballroom marked the…
An acceptable diversion
At length, I found poor Wilkers. The handbag of his dreams was sadly not in attendance, and subsequently neither was Wilkers normally genial expression. I…
No Pearwood allowed.
Wilkers split off right away to find that Sandra he’d spoken of for the past week - and with the rest of my party content to park in the main entryway (lest…
Disillusioned EnLIEightenment
I like what I learned. Hands, you do not have a clue. If this is true, loyalty is inevitable. I’m still struggling to stand. As I said, the real Reliable and…
Disillusioned Seventh
J’aime ce que j’ai appris. Mains, vous n’avez pas la moindre idée. Si cela est vrai, la loyauté est inévitable. Je suis toujours mal à tenir debout. Comme je…
Disillusioned Sixth
Mi piace quello che ho imparato. Mani, non avete la più pallida idea. Se questo è vero, è la lealtà inevitabile. Sto ancora lottando per stare in piedi. Come…