Sam Ervin
Joined June 2009 and calls his personal website home.
77 stories, 74 challenges, 344 comments, and 194 friends
The pen is mightier than the sword. How outdated. In the 1900’s, it would have been, “The typewriter is mightier than the machine gun.” But in modern times? “The word processor is mightier than the particle-beam weapon.”
I play video games, build things with Legos, and try to kid myself into thinking that I’m mature. I love dorking around with computers and I have a strange obsession with hats – nice ones, that is, no baseball caps. My dream is to either become a Masterbuilder or a drummer, and neither seem very close. Such is life.
Since joining Ficly, I’ve come to realize that I love playing off of other people’s work, reshaping their ideas to form some coherent things. Half my stories come either from challenges or from hitting the “Random Story” button and writing a sequel (I highly recommend this, the things that you’ll find are amazing!).
Stories
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-ake
This pen in my hand It is like a snake The thoughts in my head Swept around with a rake The paper in front here Is not real; it’s fake And the poem I’m writing Is done like a cake.
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Rock and Roll
My God, it has been a while. I wonder if I’m still welcome. She probably doesn’t even remember me. I cried so many tears in her name, just for her… and I got nothing! Oh, spirit! Whisk me away, carry me back, return me to the life I h...
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The Beginning of the War
Earth was united. It had taken ten years of backbreaking work, powerful speeches, and the occasional threat to make it happen, but happen it had. Every person over the age of 20 who was able to fight was armed and waiting for the signal. The women hand...
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I Know This Guy
I know this guy. He is the most awful person in the world. And he makes me feel like I’m worthless as well. We’ve both been through the shits together and we got caught in the pile. Together. Through bad times he’s been my pebble and ...
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Perhaps a Bit Too Self-Critical
Being an asshole isn’t always fun. _________________________
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Expansions
And ever after pulls on me, pulls in a thousand different directions at once. I am yanked toward a mesmerizing green orb of confusion just as I am pulled toward another abstract concept, solidified in my not-quite-awake mind. The old friend calls out t...
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Crate Full of Letters
The words flow like a river, like a waterfall, like a crate full of letters jumping off the highest cloud and floating gently to the earth on a cool breeze of inspiration The earth slows and stops, waiting for the words to stick, the breeze to shove th...
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This! Just! Got! Interesting!
So I was dreaming about a tiger, and this tiger was eating itself from the tail up, but it kept, like, growing new heads, so it just kept eating itself, but then I woke up, and I told my mom, and she said, “That couldn’t happen,” but ...
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Go Ahead and Fall, Then
Well bitch, you were being mean And clinging the whole time I couldn’t move without sixty questions Or spend more than a freaking dime Mistakes? You said I made plenty From my clothes to my hair to my room And even the slightest screw-up on our d...
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Certain Doom
“Weight!” “Er… 100, 567, 888 pounds, sir.” “What? Why? We double-checked the entire ship’s contents, why are we 120 pounds overweight?” The captain of the USS Omaha glared at the lackey, his stare boring ...
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A Rarity
Third Chairman of RoSecurity, Adam Charvell, sat at his desk, his feet up, his chair leaning back, and his eyes closed. He was thinking about going home early and letting Charlie take care of the preparations when BZZZT. BZZZT. BZZZT. Damnit, he though...
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Ozark boat trip
The boat was floating toward the middle of the lake. This family outing seemed innocent enough because, well, it was. A bunch of guys drinking a few and having a good time impressing their wives (or everyone else’s wives, either way). After we we...
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Baked Potato
“So. We’ve got to push this… thing across town. No cars, no strings, nothing but our bare hands.” “Well, it’s round. That’ll help.” “It’s not… perfectly round though. In fact it’s ...
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8
I stormed out across the field. The enemy’s fire came down like a hailstorm, piercing the fragile ground, missing my legs and torso by mere inches. We had to get to that hill. I cocked my weapon, pulled back, and fired. The two men behind me did ...
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Liberate
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Tentacles versus Climbers
The creatures milled about, their tentacles slithering across the marsh like wet spaghetti noodles. Every creature’s lone eye pointed in all directions, checking for threats, checking for friends. Now two creatures found each other. They locked e...
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Found
The alien’s communicator beeped. Radio waves? How primitive. The audio that played through his glove’s speaker was translated automatically. A message of anger, of revenge, of hatred. The newly elected Earth Leader wanted the alien to leave...
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Ender's Game in 10 Words
Genius goes into space, kills buggers, then feels really bad.
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The Bible in 10 Words
“Don’t eat the fruit,” God said. nomnomnom “Curse mankind forever!”
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Imprisoned
The walls resounded as the booming voice echoed around the immense chamber. The voice had summoned him in here, what could it possibly want? The man could do nothing but wait, watch the nothingness and wait. “WE WANT INFORMATION,” the voice...
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Earth in the Balance
All that the blob had passed through crumbled to dust. Immediately. As though the Earth was destined to fall apart in this very manner. The alien’s plan went off without a hitch. But the alien wasn’t stupid. Quite the opposite, in fact. He ...
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Corrections
“Well, we’ve got our orders. Looks like it’s seven-thirty,” Gerard called out. Rod nods. “Let’s go. I have to get home early tonight.” They walk down the hallway, one clutching a Taser, one carrying several sma...
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Pulsations
The pulse whistled through the air, unaffected by any outside force. Like smoke in the wind it glided through all obstacles, continuing onward in a continuous flow of energy. The green-tinted mist rappelled across rocks, swam through oceans, and flew t...
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Revolution with a capital R
The student body has turned on me. Despite not even cheering at the last pep rally, they have somehow organized against me, and quickly. I haven’t turned my phone on in a week. I’m terrified of what it might say. Everywhere I go, people are...
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AAAARRRRRRRGH
“Hey, what the hell, buddy?” the driver yelled out the window. “We got places to go to, ya know!” But the other car didn’t stop, didn’t slow down, just drove across the intersection, cutting off lanes of traffic and ...
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Life, Math, Typos, Attempts, Failing, Average
My life is average. Averaging in math is boring as all hell, and I haven’t figured out how to pull it off on a scientific calculator without breaking something, so I have to enter it manually and I will probably typo something. I hate people that...
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Not Good Enough for God
He shook his head, clearing some of the cobwebs from his brain. Still dead, he fumed. “What’s up, God?” he yelled. “I get your crud work down here, and you see fit not to bring me back to life? Am I not good enough for you?̶...
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The False Heaven
The crowd is huge. There are people of all shapes and sizes here. And everyone is pushing each other. We all want to get up. “Think we’ll ever see the light again?” the person next to me remarks as he climbs. I merely shake my head as...
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Hole within a hole
Death, angered by the attempt on his existence, swirled around Oswald. “You can’t kill me! I am immortal!” Death chanted, his voice echoing off the towers around, the bridges below. Several towers fell, destroyed by the massive wall o...
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That's something not of this Earth
An explosion, far in the distance. The military was already there, staking out campsites 7 miles away. No one wanted any closer. They preferred their binoculars, their robots, their satellites. 30 minutes go by. The soldiers creep closer, praying among...
