Stories tagged “creature”
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If You Read this, You Will Die
The creature stares at you, the avid Ficly reader, from the other side of your computer screen, and says, “If you are reading this, you will die.”
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Something New
There was something new down there… something we couldn’t explain, or express in the words we knew. “Something new” is also lacking in explanation. It was unrecognizable, undefined, inconceivable. It was completely, appallingly...
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The Options
Weeks passed and Jennifer’s condition declined. Mark took responsibility, since he had a record, until we could sort it all out. His arrest was quick. Sorting it out was the problem, though. Things in the basement are hard to comprehend, our opti...
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The Watcher in the Woods
It was a cold night in September when the small gray car pulled in front of the cottage at the edge of the woods. The sky was clear, and the full moon illuminated the warm vehicle in bright silver tones. To the watcher sitting within the trees, just ou...
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Malice
Orlan heard a noise. A clink, clink type of sound… He followed it into the hallway, the candle throwing wild shadows around the room. As he entered the kitchen, he was greeted by a profoundly horrible sight. A man, dressed in a black suit with wh...
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A Tortured Creature
To put a piano in a school, unguarded and unprotected, is to leave a lamb with lions, a fly with the spider, a fish with the shark. Unless watched by an angel, and placed in good hands, a school piano becomes contorted, abused, and violated. It’s...
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The Creatures
They live in the trees. They hate when their homes are invaded. The creature overlooks the magician and the crowd from high in the trees, it’s bright red eyes glowing malevolently in the night. The magician bows proudly and the audience applauds ...
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Of steel
Her glazed eyeballs roll within her skull as gleaming teeth cleave flesh, tearing through skin and membrane alike as if they were paper. It is not often that she cannibalizes her own, but the thought of satiation drives her onward, smiling with a croco...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon! (Part One)
A twenty-five year victim of a gangland war. Two and a half decades in urban hell, cut down years past his prime. Coffee splashes down my throat like a river of fire. I wipe the crust from my eyes. Two days later and they’re still dredging the sw...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon! (Part Two)
Someone asked if it could have been an alligator. We all kind of doubted that. We stormed back to the cars like a bunch of fascists and hit the streets twice as hard, beating skulls in and blowing doors down like big bad wolves because there was a dead...
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Curious Feeling
The floor was growing colder against my back as my life drained away from my stomach. The creature stood above me, a slim silhouette slightly bent to look at me. It seemed to dangle down from the darkness. I didn’t see where claws could have come...
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The Bronze Beast
Sweat rained off his forehead as he drew his sword. He couldn’t swallow. He could barely breathe. The bronze creature towered above him, exhaling hot and bitter breath. It had been so small before; an almost innocent creature that he had played w...
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Chthonic Creatures
Her breath was heavy and her heart pounded. As she sprinted she could hear the faint presence of the bodies behind her, their voices hissing angrily, “You can’t escape,girl!” She suddenly stopped dead in her tracks. The voices sang in...