Oy (LoA)
Joined May 2009 and calls The Badgerwiki home.
95 stories, 75 challenges, 272 comments, and 32 friends
Yay! I have been accepted into the League of Awesomeness as the Celestial Wombat of Awesomeness! Read, reply, ficly or die!
I have been published in StarshipSofa, failed at NaNoWriMo after 8,600-something words, was known on ficlets as Oy, and want to get writing. I have been posting work I did when ficlets was down, and hope it gets many positive reviews. Long Live Ficly!
Stories
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Leprechauns (Randomness challenge)
When the screaming panther falls from the tree from poisoned waffle inhalation, you will be ready to go on your path to eternal cheese. To that end, we have filled the mushroom forests with happy leprechauns. But the leprechauns have turned against us....
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The Machine
The machine sits, dormant. The creators are long gone. It rusts, under the burnt orange sun.
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I cry inside
I stand, looking down, at the city that was my life. A single tear drops onto the city below. And I jump.
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The Distraction Field (Elsha's Cyberpunk Series)
A lone woman walked down the sidewalk, unmolested despite the late hour. Any criminals planning on mugging her for whatever was in the large briefcase she carried were soon distracted by something else, sometimes the ringing of a cell phone, sometimes ...
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Breakout from the Facility or Amy and Jonathan
The sirens blared as Amy ran through the complex. Jonathan was here, he just had to be! She skidded around a corner, and there he was. Jonathan sat alone in his cell, his expression revealing much about his situation. Amy had seen that expression on he...
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9'oclock PM Pacific Standard Time
Becky looked down on the one she hoped to be her lover, a sad expression on her face. “I’ll get you out of there Evan, I promise.” Evan rolled over and groaned, reaching up to her from the floor of the cage. She reached down to him, g...
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A useful talent (Elsha's Cyberpunk series)
“Geez, you said what I brought was useless?!!!” I raged at Acrylic. “A Blaze Rifle? MegaCorp’s suits are fireproof!” Acrylic paid no attention to me, instead aiming at the vacuum dumpster. “Hang on to me!” R...
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Dormant lay the dragon
Dormant,the dragon lay sleeping. As it rolled over in its sleep it felt vaguely guilty for not devouring any maidens in quite a while. But, it sighed, a flame flaring out of its mouth as it did so, there were so many other things to do that there was j...
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Why do we fight?
Why do we fight, we have no real reason And why do we do such repetitive moves Surely in all these battles, we would have learned something new And yet we fight on, as if controlled by some outside force As we wait to fight again We talk amongst oursel...
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The infection and my brother
As the infection spread through my body, I cried out. As I landed butt-first on the pavement, my brother leaned over me. “I told you so”
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The Tools of God
I watched as my friends died and knew it was all my fault. I should never have played with the Tools of God. I knew better. Dad gets mad….
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Thinking of you
as i sit alone in bed i am thinking about you as i shower all alone i think of what it would be like to have you in here with me… alligator
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Victorian Teleportation
“Gather One, Gather All!” The salesman stood on a small stage as a crowd gathered around him. “Witness the Wonder of TELEPORTATION!” The crowd gasped as he suddenly disappeared, reappearing behind them on the solid cobblestone. ...
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Just another Anticipation poem
But didn’t you know I can’t leave you like this With a bullet to the temple Into infinite bliss For whatever happens now I must tell you How I feel before the gun lets out one final, desperate peal
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Alice in Wonderland in 140 characters
Girl falls down hole into fantasy land,meeting rabbit, mouse, lead poisoning survivor. Off with her head says red queen. Many poems are said
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The bible in 140 characters
God created Earth, men, animals.First chick pisses off God. God kicks humans out of Paradise. Afterwards God gives mixed signals to mankind.
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Ava in Wonderland
As Ava stood panting against a tree, she looked up and saw the infamous smile of the Cheshire cat. “You did this!” Ava cried out. “You brought the zombies down to Wonderland! I was happy here before you showed up!” The cat’...
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The Device in my chest
It was an insid— no, I mean devio— no, I mean evil plan. I control when I die for If I even think a word with the letter… Well, the one between “T” and “V” than the device in my chest will trigger, then Zap! Oh...
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Captain Jack's Haiku
I speak as I die The first of many deaths, for I will always come back
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Using Google Chrome to get Flickr Image URLs (A ficly tutorial)
1. Right click on the picture and click “Inspect Element” 2. This will bring up a window, the highlighted region of it contains a hyperlinked URL. 3. Right click on the URL and click “Copy link address” 4. You can now paste the ...
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Using Firefox to get Flickr Image URLs(A ficly tutorial)
1. Go to Tools , then to Page Info 2.click on the “Media” Tab 3. Go through the images with URLs beginning with http://farm#.static.flicker.com to find the image (when the # is replaced by a number) 4. Right Click on it, select copy 5. The ...
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How to use Inspiration: Flickr (A ficly tutorial)
A lot of you may want to use pictures from flickr, which, being creative commons images, is a good idea. But the image URLs in flickr are harder to come by. The methods for getting the flickr image URLs can be found in sequels. All tutorials were made ...
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How to use Inspiration (A ficly tutorial) (Outdated)
As you well know, Ficly’s inspiration system is not up and working. So, in the mean time, I have figured out a way to use pictures as your inspiration inside the editor. All you have to do to get an image is to surround the image URL with exclam...
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Summer Running Camp
When we left we were full with boundless energy and excitement and anticipation of what was to come But now we’ve swung the swing seen the elephant and we are content
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Transition into Cyberspace
“Attention Parents! The body you see before you is not an indicator that I am dead. Rather, it marks the day of the greatest day of my life, the day of my upload into cyberspace. No longer will I have to put up with taunting classmates, no longer...
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The teeny voice
“The sky is large on large days and small on small days!” the teeny voice recited over the sequels. “The sky’s the limit, the sky’s the limit!” God, I hate that voice. Even after all these years, it still comes back ...
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A regular night in the lab
As Dr. Smithson sat in the lab, he heard a most peculiar whirring noise followed by a thud as an armchair thudded down between two shelves filled with chemicals. “Damn L.O.U.N.G.E.R,” the man grumbled, going around the back to fuss with som...
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The "Electoral College system is out of date" rap
Our election system Is worse than Myst, um, The electoral vote we shouldn’t have to tote I will gloat when we switch to the popular vote. Word.
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I hunt a succubus
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Prometheus's son
“I am displeased.” Prometheus said, looking down at his son. “Do you find so much fault in my design? Do you so despise my creation, my life’s work, for whom I spent millenia tied to a rock for, that you would attempt to create ...
