Hurt
This is a punch to the gut, no, a gunshot wound to the head. How long had you been fucking him before I found out? The white hot ire I feel strips away your puppy-dog eyes. You're no puppy, I'm not falling for it. You total bastard. All those times...
Gone in a Flash
When Evan Turner first started taking pictures of the foreign exchange student, it had been a joke - just his way of teasing. No one at Rosedale High had ever seen a striped hyena among the cats, dogs, horses, and other more domestic species crowding...
Sounds of Shyness
\>You take the trash out late at night \>Uneasily gripping your flashlight, with four nice and hefty D-cell batteries in it, the entire way \>Half the time you're out this late there's some weird, high pitched giggling noises in the distance when you...
40,000 Feet & Falling
It's cramped, my legs ache and there's no space to readjust them more than a couple inches. I should sleep but I know I won't. I'll shut my eyes and do my best to rest my overactive mind, but that's about it. I would complain more, but the ceaseless...
Fallen Leaf
Fallen Leaf People looked so good in the autumn. Maybe it was the flat colors of the peacoats and scarfs that seemed to match up with the leaves that littered the ground. The park bench was a good place to sit and watch everyone go about their daily...
Flotsam
Flotsam He liked the feeling of the cold water lapping over and soaking his feet while he sat. It was always fun to watch the waves turn the tan sand into tan goo around his tan paws and feel his toes sink down into it all. He'd have to move now and...
Creative Writing Prompt #2: Voyager-Type Diasporic Data Emission as a Solution to Great Filter Dynamics
RESEARCH EMBARGO IN EFFECT - CONTENTS RESTRICTED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Unexplained shifts in Schwabe cycle periodicity from 2012 to the present are a subject of ongoing uncertainty and contentious debate in heliophysical research[1,2,3]. ...
Creative Writing Prompt #4: Doubts
I was most proud of my lovely floppy ears, before. They always set me apart from the other toys, others like big ol' bear. I was a little jealous of big ol' bear, sometimes, because he was always so good at hugs. She would pick...
Character Vignette -- Rainy Day Fund
What follows is one of my writing warm-up exercises, to write about a rainy day. To describe it, I put myself into a character and decided to find out just who he is. I think he's interesting enough to show up in another somewhere. I'm just not quite...
FuturePlex Brings You The World Of Tomorrow
New, Clean, Safe: FuturePlex Nuclear Hovercars! Why Go Out In The Fallout, When You Could Send Your FuturePlex Robot? Your Kids Are At Risk From Rogue Robots - Arm Them With The FuturePlex Atomic Raygun! There's Never Been A Better Time To Join The...
Creative Writing Prompt #1: The Library
See: two floors, or just one floor with a mezzanine, if you count that sort of thing. But anyway, two floors. And the whole place is fancy as you please. There’s the shelves, with all those carved and lacquered and filigreed little...
Fisher
Alv pinned his ears back against his head as he stomped down the length of the block. His boots were too much for the drizzle that the weather offered, but it was that or his threadbare sneakers, and some tiny part of his mind had done the calculation...