Stories tagged “Eloquent Mess”

  • The Intense Bride (Profile Challenge)

    Yeah we were on the run, and I don’t mean the way you run away from college loans or bad credit scores. I am talking about the way starving children in sudan would run down a truck full of Frankenberries. Six months ago we walked away from the ag...

  • The final hit

    I pulled up to the front. Silence. A trail of hoofprints in the dust, nothing else. No sign of a scuffle, even. “Anyone here?” Somewhere a door creaked and banged closed, something from a bad Western. “Hello?” I kept my hand o...

    • Author: Coccinella
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • A Detective's Requiem

    a tiny bar, The Orange Oreo, in Ficland Heights “Evenin’ Miss Gwen.” “Evening sir. The usual?” “The usual, ‘cept make it a twee bit stronger, it’s a rough night.” The customer slumped onto one of th...

  • Finding Jesus

    It’s no accident that people talk about “finding Jesus.” Few of us are born knowing him; usually we have to find our way, through pain and heartache and hopelessness, and stumble on him only just before it’s too late. Aurelia ha...

    • Author: Aurelia
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Celeb-reality (profile an author)

    “Oh my god, it’s them!” a girl screamed as she saw them approaching. Might Joe Young and Eloquent Mess worked the carpet in front of them, reaching out to the people to give autographs and such. One fan burst into tears when Joe winke...

    • Author: K-Jellybean
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • No Escaping the Fuzz

    “NO!” shouted Mess, “I have awards to win! You can’t do this!” “I believe The Law takes precedence over some Ficly Awards show. Besides, you two are hacks! You’ve hit it big a couple times, but overall your sto...

  • No Such Thing as Coincidence

    Kevin couldn’t quite grasp it: he’d received horrified complaints that a shut-down count-down timer had embedded itself into the site. But when he went in to check the code, there wasn’t anything out of place. He scanned through it al...