http://www.fictionexchange.org User-Submitted Short Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:51:51 CST en http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/an-unquestionable-change-of-fate/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/an-unquestionable-change-of-fate/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:51:51 CST megstuh Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/an-unquestionable-change-of-fate/ Making amends with my emotions.
Once sorrowful to my fortune;
I now stand solid and poised.

Fate reversed at first glance;
A cherub buried deep within the foliage of society.
As seasons changed so did adoration.
The sun shined blissfully as we shared our first laugh,
Showering amongst our first smile.
Destiny was altered as we shared our first ki

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Horror/nocturn-series-here-comes-the-sun/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Horror/nocturn-series-here-comes-the-sun/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:18:15 CST SteelSeraph Horror http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Horror/nocturn-series-here-comes-the-sun/
It didn't do much to comfort Alan, who was still shaking on the floor with his arms curled tightly around his knees. Teddy was never very good at conso

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/ghost-by-bissme/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/ghost-by-bissme/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:07:59 CST bissme Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/ghost-by-bissme/
I tried to convince him that there is no such thing as ghost. But he refused to listen to anything I have said. He let fear destroyed his life. He let fear robbed his sanity.
"What we have done is a sin," he said.
"She is going to punish us. God is going to punish us. We will be burned in hell."


1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/desire-by-bissme-s/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/desire-by-bissme-s/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:03:21 CST bissme Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/desire-by-bissme-s/
I wanted a man to fall madly in love with me and then, I will betray him in the worst possible manner. This desire has been playing in my mind since I was young. I cannot give any rational reasons for this desire.


1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/twins-by-bissme-s/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/twins-by-bissme-s/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:26 CDT bissme Other http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/twins-by-bissme-s/
I had reservation touching him back. I wanted us to be brothers forever and not sinful lovers. I wanted us not to cross the boundaries.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/dad-by-bissme-s/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/dad-by-bissme-s/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:58:28 CDT bissme Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/dad-by-bissme-s/ There was a time in her life when God and religion played an important role. She was a regular face in church. The bible was the most important book in her life.She was actively involved in church organized charity events and she didn't stand anyone making fun of religion.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/the-wrong-woman-by-bissme-s/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/the-wrong-woman-by-bissme-s/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:51:35 CDT bissme Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/the-wrong-woman-by-bissme-s/
Everyone was surprised that a vibrant man like Prakash had taken his own life. But not me. I knew his reasons perfectly well.He had fallen in love with the wrong woman.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/the-unfaithful-wife-by-bissme-s/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/the-unfaithful-wife-by-bissme-s/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:47:32 CDT bissme Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/the-unfaithful-wife-by-bissme-s/



1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/he--she-by-bissme-s/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/he--she-by-bissme-s/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:42:14 CDT bissme Other http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/he--she-by-bissme-s/
But a few hours later, she was standing in front of him, looking calm and composed. The first thing she did was to hug him. Both of them had tears in their eyes.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Horror/courier-company/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Horror/courier-company/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:37:04 CDT vijayant Horror http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Horror/courier-company/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/the-boooty/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/the-boooty/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:07:33 CDT giselly Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/the-boooty/ I'll sing for the booty
I'll even lie for the booty
I'll protect it as if it was a duty
I'll dance for the booty
I'll even dye my hair for the booty
All of these acts of will make me wonder
If all of this including me will go asunder

My negativity will get to me like a flesh eating disease
I'll use that excuse to for my quick escape and flee
I'm not accusto

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Romance/beyond-the-next-breath/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Romance/beyond-the-next-breath/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:01:06 CDT damora96 Romance http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Romance/beyond-the-next-breath/
BEYOND THE NEXT BREATH
by
Monica Danetiu-Pana


She could hear the waves slap hard against the creaking ship; large waves, getting larger by the sound of them. A familiar warning. All around her people groaned. They were damp and miserable, even though that particular clipper had more room than the usual. Poor things. Mal de mer. She had no such affliction; she was a sailor's daught

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/falling-off-the-edge-of-the-world/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/falling-off-the-edge-of-the-world/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:46:30 CDT damora96 Other http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/falling-off-the-edge-of-the-world/

FALLING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
by
Monica Danetiu-Pana


One day she was gone.
It didn't really surprise Jason. No matter how good she'd been at the job, she'd always wanted a different life. A simple kind of life with a man who loved her and didn't have to hide it, a man who didn't live in the shadows.
She hadn't taken anything with her. Her apartment seemed perfectly untouched. H

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Romance/nothing-left-unsaid/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Romance/nothing-left-unsaid/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:43:07 CDT damora96 Romance http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Romance/nothing-left-unsaid/
Nothing Left Unsaid
By
Monica Danetiu-Pana

1821 - Ajaccio, Corsica
The pale blue, white-capped mountains rose in jagged layers like shark's teeth straight out of the Mediterranean. I walked the narrow, steep streets along the waterfront's dockside market, not far from the bro

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/written-off/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/written-off/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:38:44 CDT aerodaydreams Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/written-off/ Scratched herself off of the list
And she wonders
Will she ever be missed?
Is the world moving
Just passing her by?
Or did she let it get away
When she sat down to cry?
She can't change the scratch
It's a permanent pen
If only she could learn how
To write her name down again
And she wonders
"Do I have to be just one
Of the millions of names?
Or can I start my

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/american-nobody-chapter-one/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/american-nobody-chapter-one/ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:21:41 CDT endlesschris Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/american-nobody-chapter-one/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/what-am-i-looking-for/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/what-am-i-looking-for/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:26:35 CDT Thunderwave Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/what-am-i-looking-for/ Watch and wait for something to grant my desire
to continue the morning stars
Despair my dream and honor raising into the sky
Travel along by the stars
Reaping the shadow of night desperate search
for the moon

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/just-some-things-i-know-nothing-about/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/just-some-things-i-know-nothing-about/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:02:06 CDT Epitrope Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/just-some-things-i-know-nothing-about/ She used to think we were invincible, would laugh in the faces of everyone who dared to question us and brush past them in her tight black jacket. We weren't invincible, but maybe she was. I know I wasn't.
Look at her now, though, certainly not powerful anyone. Not even conscious.
There's the only place I trump her, really.


1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/some-shitty-freeverse/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/some-shitty-freeverse/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:49:47 CDT Epitrope Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/some-shitty-freeverse/ He drives around me,
flinging snipped grass in my face
as he paces
impatiently.
The sun is above me
and below me is about ten feet
of virgin grass.
He'll have to rape me first,
then finish his job.

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/white-dwarfs-and-nebulas/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/white-dwarfs-and-nebulas/ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:54:55 CDT aerodaydreams Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/white-dwarfs-and-nebulas/ Did I really come so far
Just to let them burn to ash?
I was a star once myself
Burning so bright
I didn't realize the size of me
Lost within this sea
This galaxy
Much too small, little me
Burning so bright
But such a short life expectancy
How can I be a giant when I'm already dwarfed?
My colors fade from me
I collapse into eternity
Scatt

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/what-kills-poets/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/what-kills-poets/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:45:26 CDT MRMerris Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/what-kills-poets/ to Jack Mitcheline


you know what kills poets?
it's not the
the booze or the dope
or the unending knots
in their stomachs
from hunger or a poem trying to be born
but
seeing innocent faces
bent by tears and pain
over the
years to a singed remembrance
of the eagles feathers they once were.



2 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/when-did-you-wave-last/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/when-did-you-wave-last/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:38:17 CDT MRMerris Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/when-did-you-wave-last/

for Bruce Dodd
1,296 words

Mark Morris was flipping thru Cathedral looking for plotting ideas when his cell rang.
"Mark?" It was his x.
"Yeah," He said as he ran into "Fever" and began to read:

"He'd been in a spot all summer, since early June when his wife had left him."

"Have you been of

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/here-on-earth/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/here-on-earth/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:29:51 CDT Nimrod Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/here-on-earth/ Can you hear the music of our souls?
Screaming for peace in the deepest holes of anger
Urging for evasion, dying to know
The acid test of their lives
Here on Earth!

Masked people wandering around
Looking for acceptance before their sins are found
Flowing ideas revolving our rivers red
We are victims of our own bleeding existence

Can you hear the music of our souls?
Screaming for

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Fantasy/rain-and-sailboats-and-dancing-lights/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Fantasy/rain-and-sailboats-and-dancing-lights/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:39:53 CDT ashleycr Fantasy http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Fantasy/rain-and-sailboats-and-dancing-lights/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/noise-of-regret/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/noise-of-regret/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:21 CDT Nimrod Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/noise-of-regret/ I heard the tune of decay
My head will not stop making noise!

I should have thought
Our lives would wrought
Ditch that mask before its too late
The taste of your attitude is scornful
My head will not stop making noise!

The lies, the times of darkness
We are the reprise of every other failure
Screaming for the noise to stop
Noise of regret!



1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/chapter-1/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/chapter-1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:24:57 CDT YoAdrian Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/chapter-1/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/fly/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/fly/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:26:09 CDT aerodaydreams Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/fly/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/definitions--interpretations/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/definitions--interpretations/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:02:33 CDT gitgirl Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/definitions--interpretations/ and combined their contradictions.

Beauty…
(with its hostile fear)

Anger…
(with its simple loveliness)

Have now decided because of
Bogus Definitions & Misused Interpretations…

They are actually one.


2 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/being-here-being-there/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/being-here-being-there/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:01:06 CDT gitgirl Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/being-here-being-there/ As I sat, pen and paper in hand, and began
to write about the joys of being here,
I glanced over there.
Suddenly, I decided
I would rather write about
the joys of being there.
However, I could not
for having never been there;
I had no joys to write about.
I pondered my situation; my answer came.
If I wanted to write about
the joys of being there,
I must visit there and experience th

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/younger-than-me/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/younger-than-me/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:58:17 CDT gitgirl Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/younger-than-me/
Evelyn Saunders was a very busy woman. She enjoyed visiting her father, occasionally, on weekends, but not when she had errands or it was unplanned. Today was a perfect example of both. Between her job, her husband and her son, she rarely enjoyed a minute to herself. Time was a valuable commodity, and Evelyn managed it to her advantage. She carried a daily calendar, thanks to American Express

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/wiping-away-these-cobwebs/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/wiping-away-these-cobwebs/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:55:02 CDT gitgirl Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/wiping-away-these-cobwebs/
by


JULIE GITTENS


Russ is leaning on the headboard, with our pillows under his head, and smoking a cigarette. He's staring at the bathroom door and humming along with the song playing on the clock radio, Bruce Springsteen's "My City In Ruins". My head is buried in his chest and I can hear his heart beating. I can feel it, too. This slow, steady thumping that

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/the-ditch/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/the-ditch/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:09:47 CDT giselly Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/the-ditch/ so that when others come to play
they'll find themselves falling into a dark endless ditch

I think I'm going to turn my heart into the hardest metal
but it'll be disguise looking like the softest of flower petals
I'll do this to take others for a fool
all the while I'll be smiling and maintaining my cool

I know this sounds cold, heartless, and

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/just-a-small-moment/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/just-a-small-moment/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:11:55 CDT Epitrope Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/just-a-small-moment/
2 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/david-carradine/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/david-carradine/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:54:48 CDT ghostofmajestic Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/david-carradine/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/awakening/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/awakening/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:48:49 CDT kristamonique Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/awakening/
2 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Non-fiction/last-christmas/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Non-fiction/last-christmas/ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:11:14 CDT pqpq Non-fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Non-fiction/last-christmas/ It was snowing heavily. The temperature hit the lowest at minus twenty five degrees. You could never tell the time of the day by looking outside, for it was dark most of the time. Winters in Finland were always dark and it was the most depressing time of the year. No wonder, Finns commit

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/your-ends-are-raggedy-girlfriend-a-grass-root-fiction/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/your-ends-are-raggedy-girlfriend-a-grass-root-fiction/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:30:47 CDT bruss1030 Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/your-ends-are-raggedy-girlfriend-a-grass-root-fiction/ Completed first novel entitled "Your Ends Are Raggedy, Girl!". The year
is 1982 to 1986. The place is Harlem, USA. Mildred Evans and Claude
LeBeau are good friends who met at Walker Beauty Academy. Through
perils and disappointments they established "Shampoo Time", a chic beauty
salon in Harlem. T

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/ldquoconfessions-of-a-disco-queenrdquohellip30-some-years-ago/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/ldquoconfessions-of-a-disco-queenrdquohellip30-some-years-ago/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:25:35 CDT bruss1030 Literary Fiction http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Literary-Fiction/ldquoconfessions-of-a-disco-queenrdquohellip30-some-years-ago/
I'm looking for a publisher

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/the-price-of-success/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/the-price-of-success/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:51:09 CDT DeadScriptures Other http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Other/the-price-of-success/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/time/ http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/time/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:45:00 CDT DeadScriptures Poetry http://www.fictionexchange.org/category/Poetry/time/ I say your name with visions of your face like a dream in slow motion,
Knowing that I am the soul controller you are my soul and without you I have no meaning,
I made a wrong turn on "broken ave" and got us a little off track with our objective,
My mistake...
I regret my moves with no cautionary view of where it mi

1 Vote(s) ]]>