Stories tagged “gone”

  • My Thank You to All Ficleters that Most of You Never Read

    To the rest The amount Of thank yous needed Would take years So one grand thank you Each person brings Something to the table Something I can’t to without One thing You all do Is make sure I am heard That is the best Gift anyone Could ever show So th...

  • Home Alone

    I walk through my empty house humming to myself. I head towards my kitchen to grab snack. As I rummage through the cupboards looking for a decent snack that isn’t to fattening, I hear the floor creak. I freeze and look towards the hallway that le...

  • When?

    A man sits on his front porch, looking at the stars, thinking: “When did I become ‘Dad’ instead of ‘Daddy’? Was there a particular moment when I stopped being someone fun to hang out with and instead became merely a means to an end: ‘Can yo...

  • Beauty Forever Gone

    I sat at the top of the hill with my back against the massive oak tree. Its long, lush branches arched down to shade me from the blistering sun. As I waited for him, I fiddled with the small knife in my hands. It was an intricately carved silver pocket...

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

  • Can Not Concentrate

    I glance at the clock after finally finishing my math homework. The clock stated blankly 5:58 pm. I sighed and calculated that it had taken me an hour and fifteen minutes longer than normal to do my math. I put my math away and pulled out my English. I...

  • Did You Know?

    Dear Papa, We didn’t deserve that. To be treated like that. We were a family. Notice the ‘were’. You’re the one that left us. You packed your bags and never came back. You could have at least said goodbye in your note. The note ...

  • Broken [poem]

    I am bone-white and broken bewildered by your absence tortured by my memories remembering promises made now unmade remembering days spent now unspent as if yesterday never happened as if tomorrow never will as if all the water in the world is not enoug...

  • Until I can See You

    Until I can see you All I can do is dream That you are here And the distance is gone Waiting for you Is like waiting for summer Longing for the warmth And when things come alive I can’t make time Pass any faster Can only make the best Of not see...

  • When You're Gone

    She sat next to the trunk, in the crook made by the largest branch, swinging her legs. She stared at her pink canvas shoes. Tears begin to course down her cheeks turning her pink shorts to carnation. “You were my best friend. My only friend. Wha...

    • Author: Horrorfan13
    • Posted about 2 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Sharp Tooth; Soft Tongue; Indestructible Grace

    Feel your tooth With the tongue Sluicing truth From your lung Pen of when Your heart is spun One too many times by the earth And done away What will you have left to say To those who oppose you up until your last day?

  • Away From Gone

    Hand heavy upon the doorframe, Cam intoned solemnly, “I shall leave this place.” Betsy gave a condescending look to the back of his head, “Come sit down, love. Your roast is getting cold.” Cam only stood at the open door, gray e...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Time Spent Without

    I’m sitting here, waiting, trying to grasp I don’t know what’s the worse hand to be dealt, you see- to be told you won’t be here at all, and face That Crushing Despair or to never know and to have that slice of hope every time I...

  • You Remain.

    So here you’ve come to haunt me again. I thought I’d lost you for good- You come around more often now then I really wish you would. You wiggle your way in my everyday life In subtle unexpected ways That leave me wondering where you went An...

  • Always Gone.

    So i sit here once again. alone and you’re gone, always gone. But are you thinking of me too? See this aching in my brain simply won’t go away until you’re near. always gone. Throb throb bleed bleed out until you sigh and lose sight ...

  • Endless Plea

    my mind gets the best of me showing the worst of me nothing can erase what’s said Its all me I’m my own enemy Like a razor in my ear Piercing to my soul nothing is left standing only darkness I’m so cold I hate my reflection I hate y...

  • Daddy's Home

    At night i dream of peaceful times crying in my dream knowing all I have seen to take back tragedy relive it all would be tragic losing new memories Nothing seems quite certain in these dreams as I sleep like a movie never ending I wait to sleep again ...

  • Airports

    I like airports. Theres a sense of movement, of potential and exotic travel that is intoxicating. Everyone has their own destination and this adds to the mystery of airports. Nobody knows where anyone else is going, and when people can fill in the blan...

  • The End

    Forget me and leave me I am not but a lie A shadow transending from another life Your anger causes anguish But makes it easier still To become stronger in my valued will My thoughts are in shambles And my hearts screaming why Why must all we have be go...