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KatarinaTechgoddess

The Cry of the Dolphin

She wishes she could hear his voice, one more time...

She sat by the water’s edge, watching the dolphins play. She wished he were still here, reminding her to be careful or telling her the same joke he’d told time after time. She could feel his presence so strongly by the water. It brought her comfort to know that he’d been proud of her, that his last breath had been to tell her he loved her. It was the kind of closure many people never get....Read On

Added: 16 Sep 2020 | Category: Micro Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 100 | Tags: remembering  longing  loss  love   | 7 Comments

maryruth

Given

Power I give Measures not to what is given Each moment we share Gives more insight  I bow With humbleness  The lasting bond To give true trust That is given and taken...Read On

Added: 15 Sep 2020 | Category: Memoirs | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 32 | Tags: given   | 4 Comments

KimmiBeGood

Kismet

A perfect storm changes her path...

I bang my head against the steering wheel, not believing my luck. It really is the perfect storm. Pitch-black night. Pouring rain. Dead car. No cell service. Lost. This sequence of events is just par for the course for me. An unfulfilling career, a string of bad relationships, the latest break-up the worst of them all, and an overwhelming feeling that I don't belong in this world. I am...Read On

Added: 14 Sep 2020 | Category: Supernatural | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,149 | Tags: lost  salvation  stranger   | 7 Comments

VikaJ93

A Home By The Sea

Upholstered against the elements in scarf and overcoat and with a battered trilby perched on his head, Richard sets off on his afternoon walk. He crosses carefully at the zebra and walks up onto the promenade, where the café in the ornamental gardens is open but untroubled by customers. Seated by the window, he stares out over the windswept veranda. Many years ago he'd spent his honeymoon...Read On

Added: 14 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 239 | Tags: seaside  memories   | 5 Comments

FrustratedSpeaker

Desire of the Samurai Chapter Five

Aikasa laid awake staring at her ceiling. The day didn’t go against her better judgment for it was still raining outside and she didn’t know how she was supposed to go and meet Kenji.   Well ...   The hell with it .   It’s now or never . She got up and headed to the bathroom to wash herself. She slipped out of her nightdress and put a comfortable one that would suit this...Read On

Added: 14 Sep 2020 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,648 | Tags: heartache  heartbreak  desire  sunset  descendantsofthesamurai  moderworld  clans   | 1 Comment

Beesting

Fuel Season 2: Episode 2 – The Thawn Oberhauser Homecoming

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

Thawn makes a grand return to Monday Night Fuel but not everyone is happy to see The Impaler...

14th of September – Season 2 MONDAY MORNING As Thawn sat in his office, he contemplated the evening ahead. He'd made a decision  not  to appear on last week's episode anticipating that all eyes would be on the Crown. He'd been right except that it had been Amandla's Rebellion that was the talk of the episode rather than John Kloof's Coronation. Either way, Thawn wasn't going to...Read On

Added: 13 Sep 2020 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,821 | Tags: big ego  pomp & circumstance  humiliation  racing  motorsports  soap opera  south african  

VikaJ93

Heroes Of The Revolution

The past has a long memory

All the familiar landmarks, on her route to work, lay hidden under a blanket of pristine snow. Asya stared moodily through the window. 'Why was her husband so often in a bad mood?' He was forever criticising her appearance and housekeeping and worst of all, on several nights every week, he would drink excessively and become abusive.   Beneath a snow filled sky, Oleg Mitkova stepped...Read On

Added: 12 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 552 | Tags: revenge  past  memory   | 5 Comments

KimmiBeGood

Spilt Milk

As a child, whether intentional or not by my parents, my impressionable ears heard, "If things aren't perfect, they are awful." You know as well as I do, things are rarely perfect. So, the result was a young girl who experienced anxiety before she even understood what the word meant.  My eyes would zoom in on the one "B" on my report card, unconsoled by the sea of "A"s. I missed all...Read On

Added: 11 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 301 | Tags: imperfections  growth  happiness   | 10 Comments

VikaJ93

Docklands

Alex had seen enough. He paused the footage, captured on his recently installed camera and gazed at the frozen features of his wife and Tony Greenwood. The man he'd decided to kill. It was Monday. His wife had left early for her job in the production office of Docklands. As he sipped tea and ate toast, Alex glanced through the morning mail. Two letters caught his attention. One was a...Read On

Added: 10 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 345 | Tags: revenge  television   | 4 Comments

Fewniks

Done With Your Exercise

Checked my mobile phone, it showed three fifty-eight in the morning. It was not even four in the morning, and I am still wide awake, staring at the whirling ceiling fan. Dismissed the set-alarm and pondered whether to start my day early or just stay laid back in bed for another thirty minutes.  The moment I remembered her beautiful smiling face. I got excited to start my day and get...Read On

Added: 08 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 880 | Tags: exercise  love   | 3 Comments

verbal

Funhouse

God, she was beautiful.

Screams erupted from every ride in the carnival, even the not-particularly-scary ones like the Ferris Wheel and the Turtle Train, as Conor walked the midway. The smell of funnel cakes and corn dogs and cotton candy washed over him. Discarded hamburgers and crushed lemons from discarded cups of lemonade littered the ground. He looked in the hall of Funhouse mirrors and saw the most...Read On

Added: 07 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 499 | Tags: funhouse  mirrors  beauty   | 19 Comments

blackdog

Folds

At Bronwig’s bookshop there's a notice on the door, in red capitals: IN LIQUIDATION. It’s devastating. I’d been a customer since I was too small to see more than the top of Mr Bronwig’s head behind the counter. His hair was white, even then; delicate as cotton candy. I didn’t come to Bronwig’s for the books at first. I came for the turtles. When you bought a book, Mr Bronwig would...Read On

Added: 06 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 500 | Tags: books  bookshop   | 19 Comments

Wordpusher715

My Truth is Lonely

My Truth is Lonely. I imagine yours is, too. Mine can’t be shared; I suspect the same for you. Truth weighs heavily upon its owner because Truth destroys. Only fools say “Just tell the Truth. It’s the best thing to do.” Revealing a Truth always harms someone it seems. Typically Someone I know. Someone I love. I suspect the same for You. Is Truth measured by the amount of harm it causes?...Read On

Added: 06 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 173 | Tags: truth  lonely   | 11 Comments

VikaJ93

Opportunity Knocks

I have many reasons to be cheerful on this sunny Friday morning. In fact, the only cloud on my horizon is my husband, Alex. He seems reluctant to leave for work and keeps on drifting in and out of my workroom. "You haven't forgotten about tonight, have you darling?" Here he comes again, reappearing like Banquo's ghost. Alex is the senior partner in the second largest accountancy firm in...Read On

Added: 06 Sep 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 576 | Tags: humour  marriage  business   | 7 Comments

Dull_Rainbow

Asylum Part 2

Series: Asylum

The next morning Eric was escorted to his cell under strict watch after completing his three hour therapy session, with the same results as day one. Not a damn thing had changed in his behavior or his way of thinking. As they neared his cell he could smell an unusual stench to say the least. He couldn't quite describe it, but it made his nose curl in disgust. The guards stopped their march...Read On

Added: 04 Sep 2020 | Category: Horror | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 899 | Tags: horror  asylum  madness  crazy   | 2 Comments

verbal

Chew (part 2)

Series: Chew

Spend more. Want more. Need more. Own more.

The man on the phone told him the latest girl was twenty-one, but Mr. Hargrove thought she looked more like a teenager. It didn’t matter anymore, of course. All that mattered now was getting rid of her body. Jeeves wasn’t around to help this time. The phone call--no name, just a number--took place every few weeks. Mr. Hargrove would order an ounce of good weed, several bottles of...Read On

Added: 04 Sep 2020 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 6,623 | Tags: pandemic  5-g  conspiracy theories  wendigo  facebook  apocalypse  subliminal advertising   | 6 Comments

VikaJ93

Buzz Cut

"Yes, I'm certain that's what I want," I explained to the girl with peroxide curls. "But it's for boys." She took in my jeans, shiny boots and check shirt, while in the mirror I saw my girlfriend look up from her fashion magazine. "You're such a pretty girl too." The stylist sounded defeated, like a child who has watched the sea sweep away the last of their sandcastle. With a sigh,...Read On

Added: 04 Sep 2020 | Category: Micro Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 89 | Tags: image  acceptance  lesbian   | 5 Comments

Beesting

Fuel Season 2: Episode 1 – Amandla's Rebellion

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

The stars of Monday Night Fuel are back but not all is sunshine and roses as a dark cloud looms...

7th of September – Season 2 FEATURE RACE – 21:17 Vooossh! John Kloof could barely hear himself breathing over the sound of his engine firing on all cylinders. He took a chance and let his eyes dart to his opponent’s vehicle which was keeping pace next to him. The intensity was real as they both sped around the bends of the racetrack at 200km/h. There was no mistaking it: this was...Read On

Added: 04 Sep 2020 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 2,115 | Tags: season premiere  protesting  rivals  monarchy  racing  motorsports  soap opera  

verbal

Chew (part 1)

Series: Chew

Spend more. Want more. Need more. Own more.

Baby was hungry again. Sara set down the baby bottle, opened the cabinet and counted the cans. Seventeen. Mostly refried beans, one of the few staples left after the supermarket got looted. Two cans of Beefaroni. Five cans of soup. Green beans. Corn. Peas. One lonely can of cranberry sauce, leftover from some pre-infection Thanksgiving and likely to be the last of the cans opened. A low...Read On

Added: 03 Sep 2020 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,816 | Tags: facebook  post-apocalypse  pandemic  wendigo  subliminal advertising  mind virus   | 8 Comments

VikaJ93

Reflections

Look at that woman. How old before her time and careworn she is, like a refugee broken by years of strife. Dull hair, lank and untended stragglers her neck in untidy whisps. The full mouth, that once screamed a dangerous red, now tamed by an insipid cotton mask. Pale blue eyes still visible, though their mischievous gleam has gone. But what can you expect in days like these? So I...Read On

Added: 02 Sep 2020 | Category: Micro Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 88 | Tags: virus  mirror  changes   | 4 Comments

Dull_Rainbow

Asylum

Series: Asylum

He spat in the guard's face and managed to shove him to the ground before two more restrained him. While he struggled and thrashed violently, he slammed one man against the wall and the other against a filing cabinet. You'd think they would learn not to try and take advantage of him. He may be crazy, but he sure as hell didn't bat for the other team. The warden's voice boomed through the...Read On

Added: 01 Sep 2020 | Category: Horror | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 795 | Tags: asylum  horror  madness  crazy   | 6 Comments

The_Count

Old School

It was not a great Summer. The girl I was seeing decided to seek greener pastures and I fought with my buddy Dr. Radio about the way he ran his mobile DJ business. We had a verbal disagreement which ended with my quitting and stopped taking his phone calls. It was on the Friday of that week that I headed out to drown my sorrows at a well known and lively bar/ restaurant named the "Fast...Read On

Added: 31 Aug 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 319 | Tags: bar  meeting  alcohol  friend   | 2 Comments

VikaJ93

Healing

That day he'd booked a table at my favourite restaurant. It was his usual way of saying sorry. Now, we stood in groups outside the church. I gathered condolences like confetti, each a brief flurry of contact then back to their lives. My mother said it would take time. Maybe years. I tugged the sleeves of my black dress down tight over my wrists. She would never know, that for me the...Read On

Added: 31 Aug 2020 | Category: Micro Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 78 | Tags: funeral  pain  recovery   | 7 Comments

AnnaMayZing

The Long Road Home. Chapter 24

"That poor girl was shot by her own bloody colleagues..."

Krakow, September 5th th 1944   Although Warsaw was the capital of Poland, Krakow was where the general government of Poland was located. Maria and Katarina had both noticed that the military presence was strong there. Soldiers were everywhere. In cars, trucks even on bicycles. There were often groups of soldiers marching through the streets. From their first day at the...Read On

Added: 30 Aug 2020 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,184 | Tags: history  drk  nurses   | 3 Comments

DenimAngel

The Adventure of Tank the Turtle

What kind of adventure

It was a beautiful summer day in Wisconsin. The family reunion was in full swing. The adults were sitting around talking as the sun was shining high in the summer sky. The kids were running around the back yard shrieking. They needed to get sunscreen put on. The adults were sipping lemonade trying to beat the heat  as they  watch the kids jumping in the pool one by one, splashing and having...Read On

Added: 29 Aug 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 269 | Tags: turtle  pool  summer   | 17 Comments

Welshdreamer42

The Rendezvous

Added: 29 Aug 2020 | Category: Micro Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 100 | Tags: love  loss  afterlife   | 11 Comments

CleverFox

Snot-Nosed Frat Boys

How some people are just rude.

When I started college at Ohio State, I was living in an apartment with two of my older brothers. My third year of college, I had to move into the dorms. When I moved, I had more social opportunities with women. So, I would ask a girl out on a Friday or Saturday, to one of the High Street clubs for some beer and dancing.  More often than not, when I was dancing with my date, a snot-nosed...Read On

Added: 29 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 787 | Tags: dates  dancing   | 3 Comments

Lynara

The War of Spies - Chapter One

The fresh, crisp air stung at her lungs as Lynwen breathed deeply on the porch of the inn that she had stayed at the previous night. She pulled her cloak tightly around her body, shivering slightly. She looked out in the fields as the farmers hurriedly tried to harvest the last of the crops before the primary frost set in. Axes swooshed through the air before clacking into trees or logs. She...Read On

Added: 29 Aug 2020 | Category: Fantasy | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,580 | Tags: fantasy  medieval   | 3 Comments

Dreamcatcher

Fore!

The worst word in golf. I know, it’s part of the etiquette of the game, but it’s the part we all hate to shout or hear. It’s one of those things in the arsenal of golf, like mulligans and do-overs and foot wedges. Once the dreaded “Fore!” has been uttered, golfers all over the course scramble for trees or wrap their arms around their heads and do the “ants-in-the-pants-dance” like they...Read On

Added: 24 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 743 | Tags: humor   | 7 Comments

CleverFox

The Galactic Federation

Being civilized isn’t all it seems to be.

Welcome, citizen of Earth. It is hoped that you enjoy your sojourn to the stars but there are several important points to Galactic Culture that you must learn before you leave Earth space for more exotic climes.  Now, as you know that for the Earth to join the Galactic Federation, Earth and its people had to make three contributions to the Federation. If the Earth could not make...Read On

Added: 24 Aug 2020 | Category: Flash Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 373 | Tags: travel  galaxy   | 3 Comments