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365Fiction365Fiction365Fiction is an attempt to publish a brand new short story every day for an entire year. Articles
Gig
2007-07-03 08:19:00 All the lights were on but it was as if no one was home. The furniture looked lonely and unused and there was every indication that no one had sat in a chair or used the dining table in long enough for a thick layer of dust to cover every available surface. And still the ...
Succession
2007-07-02 05:00:00 To so few does the thought even occur ? is this all I was meant for? And fewer still seek a different answer than a resounding affirmative. So an uneasy slumber comes and we sleepwalk through the daytime of our lives, as the world gently turns to shelter us from the sun?s unforgiving glare. But what ... More About: Succession
Mentor
2007-07-01 06:33:00 ?It?s difficult, I won?t deny it. Killing is hard but you know what? Making a killing is harder. Trust me, I?ve tried. Tried and nearly died. Twice. Third time is not going to be the charm.? He waved his lit cigarette at the skies during that last bit about ?third time? and ?charm?. His name ... More About: Mentor
Generations
2007-06-30 04:17:00 My grandfather used to say, the dead should take their secrets with them. I might have been the only one who heard him while everyone else, including my mother, his daughter, dismissed his words as the ramblings of a senile man. It?s true my grandfather was old, it?s also true that he had once roamed ... More About: Generation , Generations
Thought Portfolio
2007-06-29 04:34:00 It was a rainy morning and traffic was heavier than usual. Cars were chasing other cars with horns blaring, like recently jilted women chasing their ex-lovers down the street demanding further explanation for why they were no longer couples. His attempts at crossing the road had been repeatedly thwarted. For no good reason whatsoever the ... More About: Portfolio , Thought
Bare All
2007-06-28 04:15:00 Bare All, that?s what the ad exhorted its readers to do. That and a telephone number was all that was provided by way of enticement. So in terms of conventional wisdom, it should have been an ad that was ignored. He was not the type to place much value in conventional wisdom, so he went ... More About: Bare
Encounters
2007-06-27 04:23:00 Like most families returning from their first trip abroad, they wandered around the airport trying to figure out how to get outside without being slapped with huge duties. He was becoming increasingly exasperated with his parents? behaviour. Maybe it was the ceaseless stream of questions in stereo? ?Do you have all the bags?? ?Did you ... More About: Counters , Counter , Encounter , Encounters
Blind Date
2007-06-26 05:42:00 She was early, and seated. He only found out because the maître d’ asked if he?d like a table right away and he said that he was meeting someone. The man in the impeccable suit informed him that there already was someone waiting and she had left a name. He was surprised enough to check ... More About: Blind , Blind Date
Domestic Terrorism
2007-06-25 03:15:00 The melee quickly spiraled into a fracas and all that was known was that someone had called someone else an objectionable name. By the time the noses had been bloodied and a couple of limbs broken, by the time the cops had got in there and done their own damage, nobody knew what really started ... More About: Terrorism , Domestic , Dome
Hercule: Chapter 1
2007-06-24 07:18:00 Hercule Washington was not someone you wanted to fuck with. This is not to say that he wasn?t receptive to a good natured ribbing or that he cared too much about having his good name dragged through the mud. Far from it. Seventeen years and eleven months ago Deena Washington had named her newborn after ... More About: Chapter 1 , Chapter
Unavailable
2007-06-23 04:54:00 The sound of the whiskey filling the glass was as seductive as a siren call and several men looked over. The initial curiosity was always to see what was being drunk by someone else. When they saw that it was a woman drinking one of the finest single malts in the house their curiosity took ...
Chain
2007-06-22 05:30:00 She took one final drag and flicked the cigarette into the street. It was not even half-smoked and the flaming end popped right off and landed in the upturned cuff of a teenager?s jeans. She was too busy arguing with her boyfriend to notice. She thought he was paying more attention to her best friend than ... More About: Chain , Chai , Hain
Kidnapped
2007-06-20 08:16:00 It was the hum that woke her. The hum of a tube light that pierced through her grogginess to remind her that she didn?t allow tube lights in her room. She didn?t care if they saved energy or if they were good for the environment. All she knew was white light made her sick and ... More About: Kidnapped
Uprising
2007-06-20 08:13:00 They asked to be let in; which made them different form the rest of the troops patrolling other parts of the city. There hadn?t been any fighting or violence of any sort within forty miles of the South-West. It was the place where the agreeable population lived. Nobody was more inclined to fall in line ... More About: Uprising
Buck Stars
2007-06-19 07:18:00 They found themselves at the same coffee shop at around the same time four days in a row, Monday through Thursday. By Wednesday she had a favourite table and by Thursday he had one of his own, just coincidentally situated at an angle that allowed him to sneak periodic glances in her direction. They had ... More About: Stars , Buck
Action!
2007-06-18 09:51:00 She had tears streaming down her cheeks and puffs of cigarette smoke streaming out her nostrils. Her eyes were averted and she was every inch the affronted artist. He was sitting ramrod straight in a chair that provided a decent amount of back support but he needed his body language to convey neither his sense ... More About: Action
The Favour
2007-06-17 08:34:00 The door to the store opened at a time no one was expecting customers. The heat in the street threatened to melt the plastic off the bench at the bus stop and metallic surfaces were hot enough to cook on. The proprietor and his wife were sitting in the back fanning themselves with the morning?s ...
Interview
2007-06-16 08:25:00 She moved the microphone and wondered for the thousandth time that day, why she was doing this. From her brief tenure on the college campus she had learnt that it was difficult to distinguish between the students beyond a point. It was easier to just pin them to a type card and typecast them. The ... More About: Interview
Bad Girl
2007-06-15 08:00:00 It?s really not a nice thing to do, to piss people off. So it was a good thing for William that he was not a nice man. Even if he had been, it was not in his nature to do nice things. If there was one person he was more predisposed to do bad things ... More About: Girl
Exclusive
2007-06-14 02:55:00 He couldn?t believe what he was reading and yet, there they were, the words, strung together and possessing a malevolent life. Every single day that dawns upon this planet, that I am here to witness I wonder about my place in this world and all the others who live here with me. I saw a ... More About: Exclusive
Suggestive Content
2007-06-13 07:51:00 ?You don?t go in hard, you try and go in deep,? that?s what the hockey tem coach would say. Especially after another one of their matches had gone south because the captain led his men into an all out charge and left the goalkeeper all alone to defend against any sneaky opponents who got past. It?s ... More About: Content , Tent
Then There Were 99
2007-06-11 06:05:00 He gingerly examined the bruise with the tip of his tongue and quickly drew it back at the first twinge of pain. He examined his tongue-firmly-in-cheek reflection in the scooter?s rear-view mirror and grimaced, One morning?s carelessness?one week?s pain. Even though common sense advised against it, he poked at it with his tongue again while ... More About: There , Were , Then
Swindle
2007-06-10 08:20:00 It was story time and Ashwin?s court was in session. He did enjoy a good yarn, especially when he was narrating it and even more so when he was the star of the rambunctious tale. They were always rambunctious tales when told by Ashwin. He wished people would call him Win but his friends called ... More About: Swindle
Demigod
2007-06-09 08:02:00 He was close to the edge. As close as a man can get when he is separated from a free fall that will last a hundred and twenty-seven stories by seven inches of flawless glass. The view was spectacular. He saw landmarks he did and didn?t recognize, church steeples, smokestacks, the rooftops of other, tall-but-not-quite-tall-enough buildings and ... More About: Demi
Impulse
2007-06-08 08:09:00 She was the sweetest thing anyone had ever seen. Completely unlike most girls in every respect. Where they played dumb or coy for as long as it took for them to get what they wanted, she killed with niceness. There wasn?t a man in her orbit who looked at her in any way other than ... More About: Puls , Pulse , Impulse
Superhero Blues
2007-06-07 07:41:00 ?Have you been following Civil War?? ?No, I don?t give a shit about that superhero crap.? ?Dude, what the hell are you talking about?? ?Superhero es are not of this lifetime. I can?t get behind that shit anymore.? ?You read comics right?? ?Of course I do, just not that superhero shit. Anybody without the good sense to keep his panties on ... More About: Blues , Hero
Brothers
2007-06-06 07:29:00 How did it get to be like this? They were such good friends, they had such an amazing relationship, they were the kind of brothers every mother wished her sons to be. How did they fall so far apart without anyone noticing? When fallout between two men occurs, there are a few possibilities that the uninitiated ... More About: Brothers , Brother , Roth , Brot
Cuckold No Longer
2007-06-05 08:17:00 Avinash had been cuckolded for as long as he could remember. He couldn?t remember how it came to pass that his wife treated him the way she did but he realised that it had been a long time. She might have been cheating on him but he was the one who stood to lose big ...
Traffic Light
2007-06-04 10:38:00 He had a vision of the falling shapes in Tetris, as he sneaked his scooter into the little corridors of space between and around the big powerful cars that were forced to crawl in rush hour traffic. With an un-oiled squeak his scooter stopped behind a Ford, a fraction later than it should have responded ... More About: Traffic , Light
Rabble Rousers
More articles from this author:2007-06-03 06:13:00 ?What the hell did you call me?? ?A whore, why? Did one of them stick it in your ear and make you hard of hearing?? ?You have no right to talk to me like that.? ?After what you did at that?orgy I have every right to talk to you like this and your only job is to listen ... More About: Users , Ouse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
