Stories tagged “down”
-
Smiling All The Way Down
I fell. I banged up my arm with scraps and bruises. I was jumping down a hill. I was smiling all the way down. It was fun to roll. And it was even better when I got control and kneeled with peace signs waving on my fingers. It was real. It was simple. ...
-
Speakers
The first distorted words of Photofinnish blasted through Mike’s speakers hooked up to the thousands of dollars of computer hardware. …always ending on a safe net, walking a tightrope with a safety net… He walked out of the dank room ...
-
On a Ledge
I stood on a ledge the other day. I wanted to look down. I wanted to feel how high I was, because I was feeling so low everywhere else. I wanted my heartbeat to rise because of a fear of falling. I wanted to feel something other than despair. I wanted ...
-
Ficly Derailment: THE TRUTH!
On January 7th 2010, the creators of Ficly faced a problem: The alien species named Wiultyicaders (or “Witties”), who had helped create the site and helped feed Creativity Fluid into the human minds of the site’s inhabitants daily, wa...
-
Temptation Waits
“You’re not going to murder me, right?” The middle-aged man smiled at my joke as he sat in my passenger seat. “Not ‘til ya get me t’ the next town, darlin’,” he replied. He was unshaven, dusty, and deeply...