Kevin Lawver
Joined May 2009 and calls Ultranormal home.
13 stories, 66 challenges, 80 comments, and 23 friends
This time, it’s mostly Jason’s fault. He’s the one who convinced me that we couldn’t just leave well enough alone. He got the designers to donate their time, and wrote all the HTML, CSS and 95% of the javascript. I did the models and controllers. Nope, we couldn’t just let it go. We had to try it again.
Stories
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The Acceptance Speech
Thank you to everyone who voted for us, for the judges and for all of you for sitting through the next 45 seconds. Ficly is a creative oasis in a sea of sameness. It allows anyone with five minutes to create a world, a character, a scene or an emotion ...
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Z is for Zombie
“Why can’t I play with Billy anymore, mom?” “I’m sorry, sweetie, but Billy got bitten by a bad man and now, well, he’s not Billy anymore.” “What is he?” “You know how Ms. Chalmers chased you d...
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Short, Sweet and Final
I doubt you’ll see this. The zombies broke through the lines. Mass panic, screaming everywhere. Saving a bullet for myself, just in case.
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Down the Rabbit Hole
I fell down a rabbit hole, met an odd cat, ate shrooms, smoked a hooka, ran afoul of a queen and barely made it back. Last hole I go down!!
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Marjorie Fights
Marjorie was smaller than the other girls. She had big glasses, freckles all over her face and curly auburn hair that looked quite a bit like steel wool. She wore baggy sweaters and pants, and boys tennis shoes – before those things were cool. Ma...
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The Gospel of Jeff
You’ve never heard of me. You don’t know the role (however small) I’ll play in the coming storm. I even wrote a book, but Paul didn’t think it was cool enough to include in the final draft. The Gospel of Jeff is a real page-turn...
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Never Read the Bottle
I never should have looked at the paper folded up inside the box my medicine came in. It has impossibly small print and was folded over almost thirty times, so that by the time I got it all unfolded and spread out on the table, it covered the entire su...
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A Coping Monophobe
I figured it out. I was sitting in the coffee shop with my dingy old laptop when I realized that I was sitting in half of the answer. I closed the lid on my computer, picked it up and walked up to the counter. “Are you taking applications? I don&...
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Monophobe
I used to have my parents. My mother would sit with me at the bus stop. She would meet me when the bus dropped me off. She slept in my room. I think that’s why dad left. She never said it was my fault, but I knew. When she died, I was lost. IR...
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Das Milkshake
“My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.” Hans pointed down the street at the small group of young men heading their way, gesturing with his chocolate shake. “What?” Dan looked up from his lawn mower and wondered why Hans ...
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The New Line
“What do you think of the training film, boss?” “Where are the chicks, Simpson? Honestly, where did you find that kid to model it, the library? Where’s the sex?” “It’s a discipline device parents put on their k...
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And Then Came The Burlap and BCGs
No one paid attention as HR246803 made its way slowly through Congress. No one noticed as it passed and was signed by President Beige. It wasn’t until she nominated the new Secretary for the Department of Conformity that we started paying attenti...
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Pantsing the Naked Singularity
“How do you plan on killing death, then?” “Have you heard of a ‘naked singularity’?” “Umm, no. Do I want to?” “Yes. It’s a black hole that’s built up so much hydrogen around it that it n...
