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365Fiction365Fiction365Fiction is an attempt to publish a brand new short story every day for an entire year. Articles
Producer
2007-10-01 03:10:00 Walter was in a bad mood, but then again, Walter was in a bad mood a lot. When he was feeling sorry for himself, which was a lot of the time, he liked to say, ?It?s like God is punishing me for being successful.? Everybody smiled at him and called him names the moment they ... More About: The Stories , Produce , Producer
Actress
2007-09-30 05:44:00 The first time someone told her to spend some time with her thoughts she was bored before they left the room. She was six years old. She needed people, even at that age. To tell her she was beautiful or funny or adorable. To tell her that they didn?t know what they would do without ... More About: Actress , The Stories
Actor
2007-09-29 03:25:00 The hum that reverberated around the room sounded like high school kids doing a last minute revision before exam time. Except that this felt more like life or death. He looked around at the other guys and cursed to himself. His agent had told him about three auditions so he knew there had to be ... More About: The Stories , Actor
Director
2007-09-28 03:17:00 She was slender. Like super, in a way that made him wonder how far she bent in any direction. It was really weird, he took one look at her and started thinking sex type thoughts. Her hair looked super soft and really shiny, like individual strands of black silk had been laid together so that ... More About: The Stories , Director , Dire , Rect
Writer
2007-09-27 03:36:00 I wake up. (He wakes up). I stare at the ceiling and try and remind myself of where I am. It is home, it?s always home and most days (every day) I (he) am (is) alone (alone!). Sometimes I turn around, if my neck or my back or my head aren?t killing me and I am ... More About: Writer , The Stories
Popped Star
2007-09-26 03:29:00 In the largely vacant emptiness of her subconscious Melanie sensed something, like movement in an empty street on a dark night. She didn?t like it in the same way she didn?t like sudden moves from people around her. See, Melanie was the kind of animal that startled easily and she needed to be semi-sedated before ... More About: Star , The Stories
Modern Fairy Tale
2007-09-25 07:00:00 Stella came from inappropriate stock. She had so much mixed blood in her lineage, someone could have sworn an affidavit that her people had been reproducing with apes long after the rest of mankind had moved on?and nobody would have doubted it. Theirs was a bloodline clotted with ugliness ? in appearance as well as ... More About: Modern , Fairy Tale , The Stories , Tale
One Night Stand
2007-09-24 03:02:00 ?Beer?? he asked from over her left shoulder while she was trying to figure out, without looking too obvious, if the drummer in the band on stage was cute. She turned to look and her hair got a little tousled like it might if she took a one night stand home and stared in surprise ... More About: Night , The Stories , Stand
God Mode
2007-09-23 05:52:00 It was sometimes tempting in the case of the wealthy to push the bounds of propriety, or the law, to see how far a man could get on people?s perceived value of his bank balance. Boris was one such man. He had made his first fortune in oil and followed it up very quickly with ... More About: Mode , The Stories
Ghost Story
2007-09-22 04:46:00 ?If it?s the future you?re looking for,? he said with a mesmerizing wave of a very smoky cigarette, ?the bitch is already here. Welcome to Dystopia my friends. The invisible protective bubbles are in place, everybody is falsely happy and the unfortunate are dying in the streets to be carted away like yesterday?s refuse shat ... More About: Story , Ghost , The Stories , Tory
Analog
2007-09-21 06:39:00 They called him ?Anal og ? and it should have been a joke but the name stuck and with it the implications. He didn?t mind. People had been known for much worse things and so they had been called much worse names. He was happy to be recognized as a throwback. Not that he really was one ... More About: The Stories
Eavesdropper
2007-09-20 03:24:00 She was waiting for a friend. In sixteen years of being best friends with Vanessa she still wasn?t used to the girl never being on time. She considered it a cross and bore it with a smile because it was the price of doing friendship with the coolest girl she had ever known. With little else ... More About: The Stories , Drop , Aves
Intervention
2007-09-19 04:36:00 In the afternoon when the sun has reached its highest point and it feels like gravity is going to pull it to the earth?that?s when I wish to see you. Do not be late, do not forget and prepare to share a meal with me and mine. That was the note she got. The thing is, ... More About: The Stories
Screening
2007-09-18 03:22:00 They had to cover the final five hundred metres to the cinema on foot. He was still giving thanks for having found parking so close to the theatres when she asked, ?What are we watching?? He shrugged and rubbed his hands together - to ward off the cold - not out of anticipation for the film, ... More About: The Stories , Cree , Screening
Vacation
2007-09-17 04:13:00 He looked like a quiet drunk in the darkest corner of the bar. To look in his direction was to see a ribbon of smoke reaching for the ceiling from his cheap cigarillos and little other movement. It was difficult to tell if someone was actually sitting there or if the bar?s management had placed ... More About: Vacation , The Stories
Loss Revisited
2007-09-16 04:01:00 There was something achingly familiar about the whole situation, where the ache came from the familiarity not being all that pleasant. Like lifting a girl?s skirt for the first time and being hit by the smell. It didn?t matter if it was stale sweat or overly sweet powder like the kind that smells great off ... More About: Loss , The Stories
Wasabi Hook-Up
2007-09-15 03:20:00 They were meeting after nearly two weeks and he thought it was valid to ask about her week. She grimaced and said, ?It?s like you say to a guy you never want to see again ? I?ve had better.? He didn?t want to be one of those guys she didn?t want to see again. He ... More About: The Stories , Hook Up , Wasabi , Hook , Sabi
Heartbreak High
2007-09-14 06:26:00 Physics, one of his favourite classes, was in session. Not that he noticed. Even though his parents had the money to afford for him to go to a school as good as Riverside, on most days he counted himself lucky to be studying there. It was good for his future career to have the school?s ... More About: High , Heartbreak , The Stories , Brea
Katana Justice
2007-09-13 05:27:00 The sword sliced through the air with the confidence of a sushi chef laying out choice slivers of salmon for hungry and appreciative customers. It cut thin and it cut true, like circles of chorizo firing up the taste in a dressing-gloried sandwich. It sang through the air with the kind of whistle that would ... More About: Justice , The Stories
Model Muse
2007-09-12 04:30:00 The first time she sat for him, he was a new student at one of the most famous art schools in the country. He was like a little boy then, ashamed to look at the models yet eager to create the best interpretation of what he saw. She had been unable to hide a smile ... More About: Model , Muse , The Stories
Remembrance
2007-09-11 04:29:00 She woke up with wet cheeks. She didn?t know why and it pissed her off because she was worried her eyes would be puffy during the video conference call. She debated the pros and cons of going to work looking less than perfect for five whole minutes before she tossed the sheets off and entered ... More About: Remembrance , The Stories
Utopia
2007-09-10 04:26:00 ?What do you stand for?? was the question painted onto the wall of a building that circled the town square. In equally bold if ultimately crude letters someone had spray-painted the words, ?Absolutely Nothing!? That was it; that was the whole point. With the town and its people. Apathy fuelled the people who lined the streets ... More About: Utopia , The Stories
Interrogation
2007-09-09 04:41:00 They eyeballed each other for a solid minute before the man with the higher position said, ?Okay, tell me your story. Make it short. Make it true.? The kid in the handcuffs glared at the policeman who had his left butt cheek on the steel table, and wilfully dragged the metal binding his wrists over ... More About: The Stories , Interrogation
Demons
2007-09-08 03:06:00 ?Illuminated by darkness? was perhaps the best way to describe Ayesha. It was a term her boyfriend Rahsan coined while discussing her depression with a girlfriend of hers. The girlfriend thought Ayesha was so lucky to have a boyfriend like Rahsan and harboured the fantasy of kissing him ever since. Rahsan and Ayesha broke up ... More About: The Stories , Demons , Mons
The Accountant
2007-09-07 02:37:00 It was a cold fall night and a lone man was making his way through the ill-lit streets that separated Hudson from Wells Grove. His name was Harry Horton and he was walking home after another long day at the office. He didn?t like going through the docks because the quiet and the giant shadows ... More About: The Stories , Accountant
Condition: Lust
2007-09-06 03:50:00 She faltered, for just a moment and that provided all the opening he needed. Before she could readjust her position he had her pinned and unable to resist the inexorable descent of his lips onto her. Her resting heart rate was 45 but she was far from rested just then. Her chest was heaving in ... More About: Condition , Lust , The Stories , Condi
Last Kiss
2007-09-05 04:47:00 They raced up the stairs even though one of them wasn?t in the best shape. Brian liked to remind anyone who expected him to move fast to get a good look at him first. It was a hot afternoon, like most hot Mumbai afternoons when the monsoon chose to take a break. He was wearing ... More About: Kiss , The Stories
Overheard
2007-09-04 05:24:00 They were talking loud enough for her and everyone else in the restaurant to hear. So she felt no guilt about eavesdropping. Two guys, late thirties, swapping stories like teenagers. One of them was animated, waved his arms around a lot and managed to knock over an empty glass and send a breadstick flying within ... More About: The Stories
Comic Book Nerd
2007-09-03 05:12:00 He had been a comic book nerd for the better part of his life without actually knowing the term. Not because he knew that he was reading the ?right stuff? or buying the correct issues for their potential value in future years. He was a comic book nerd because of the pleasure he derived from ... More About: Comic , Nerd , Book , The Stories , Comic Book
Back To School
More articles from this author:2007-09-02 04:57:00 It was the Sunday before Back To School Week and Billy was up in his room, not noticing what a dump it had turned into since his big summer crush had fizzled out without a fire ever being lit under that one-sided attraction. Her name was Lauren and she had moved into their neighbourhood to ... More About: Back to School , The Stories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
