Forum: Member Stories

The Old Man. The old man watched as the young men, looking war like in their cammo’s left to join their militia units. He had been too old to fight in the last war and did not even bother trying to join for this one. He envied the young, with their strong bodies, their enthusiasm and...

A Curious Tribal Custom .....This Was Back When I Was Still Alive; and Working For the Long and Nasty RailRoad. We Were Laying Ribbon Rail Down By Ben-Hur, Virginia. One Weekend, When Staying With a Few of the Other Guys; I Decided to Go to The Little Country Bar in Jonesville. Now, Back Then at...

Of course this is a fictional story. And of course it could not really happen, could it? Edward still lived with his parents even though he graduated high school three years ago. He lived in New Jersey and at the insistence of his parents got a job. The job was a trivial job but for the...

A big thank you to all those who have taken the time to read Withdrawal. I would like to request your help, I definitely plan on finishing the story and publishing it. So to that end if you would take a few moments of your time and answer as many of the following questions as you care to it would...

She never, ever imagined that she would feel and see years of sad, isolated loneliness stretching endlessly ahead of her again. The last time she’d experienced this foreboding long emptiness before her she had been 23 years old. The year before when, alone, she’d decided to have her first born...

First, let me say that I find the stories to be very good. My only gripe is when an author gets bogged down in inconsequential details: "He took his .34567 Super-Dooper pistol with its gold-plated handle, 300x Wilson sniper-scope, and Hush-Boy Rad-15 silencer, and got into his 1892 Chevy...

With all the doom and gloom I hope to add a smile with some animal stories so here is one about a goat My first grade Alpine goat was my teacher goat... Punky will always have a special place in my heart and this is one of her stories.... I have a apricot tree up here on the mountain and if...

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............................A LIFE GONE SO FAST.................................. Raised in a small town. Life was good. Knew so little and felt so much About family and pals and girls and such. My biggest fears then,were really nothing at all. Like making the team and would I have a...

Okay, let's all have it. Follow Dennis' "rules". Cheif curmudgeons can be snotty when riled. The idea is to write as "bad" a story as we can manage here... It was a dark & stormy night. From the throes of an empassioned dream, Sarah awoke; pulse thready from the uncertainty of knowing if she was...

I sure hope it is ok to post a link to a new story that was started yesterday on another forum. if not, please let me know. The Kings of Olde

The great plague had ended and stillness had descended upon the land. The Suburban Home She was alone now. They had all left. Some were silent as able arms carried them out while others walked away on their own always coughing in various degrees. She at times cried and kept forever...

It was 1900 AD. Frank and his kind of retriever Duke were sitting in his small boat on Lake Michigamme near Champion Michigan, a small town in the UP. It was a cool October Sunday morning, Frank's only day off from the iron mines. Across his lap was his double barreled Damascus 12 gauge shotgun....

Would you guys be interested in short stories where the story is based around the concept of when even the best preps fail? I think it might be interesting, as it would pit my mind as the aggressor to great prep concepts. The stories produced could possibly show worst case scenario flaws in how...

As most of you know,I'm disabled. Money is mighty tight, and getting tighter. HG Wells--Who I never cared for all that much; and Robert Heinlein--who I liked without slavishly worshiping--are two examples of writers forced to write by an inability to do almost any other form of work. {As...

What do you consider the acceptable price for a "fiction book" to you?" With the advent of POD, Publish On Demand companies we now see a larger selectyion of avaiblable titles. For example Jeff Stansfields book "Lost In Alabama" is made this way. POD prices are fairly high as opposed to the...

I found this recently and thought others might like it. It's a short story written and posted by HalfFast (author of Lights Out) in 2005. It's about a hasty bugout by a suburban family and the challenges they faced trying to get to family at a rural farm. The complete short story is...

This is sort of sci-fi-ish and angel-ish. Let me know what you think. Kook -------------------------------------------- Treading By J. Robert Richey All rights reserved

Here is a short story I have been toying with. Any and all comments are welcome. Rome 1457 A.C The sun was low in the west giving the land a golden glow. How fitting thought the Tribuni, how truly fitting indeed. A golden glow to the city that ruled over most of the known world. Rome...

A Blizzard! A blizzard! A blizzard! A blizzard I see! All coming down from the crabapple tree! Faded pink petals flying thru the air, Whirling and swirling and dancing with flair! I try to catch 'em, its an impossible job, Over here and over there, then I trip on a root knob. Hobbling...

Well you should never encourage a story teller So sit back and read how to scare a cougar away with a can of grain Years ago when we first moved this our mountain top home the only fencing we could afford was Electric fencing now most of the animals respected it and didn't get out. One night...

This is from another website that is similiar to Timebomb. I've been lurking there for several years when I came across this one member's story. I think some here will enjoy the struggles that this young couple went through to build not only their home, but a successful marriage as well. ...

I found an app to use to keep a list on my desktop of the stories on the different web sites and let me edited it when a new chapter is posted. I found this in the Apple Apps store but there must be others out there for other computers. The name of the one I found is Delectus. It's set up so you...

I looked and didn't see that I'd ever posted this story here on TB2K. Lots of talk of pandemics again and I thought this one might be useful as far as planning goes. This was written back when people were just starting to worry about a Swine Flu pandemic. It was also written with a lot of input...

Friends, If you like my writing, you'll love my Friend Elijah's book "Justice in Winter". The last time I tried to boost his book he complained that my summary gave too much of the plot away. Fair enough. If I write like an Impressionist Painter—in broad colorful strokes—Elijah does...

When I first placed Billy on Amazon, some of the feedback was that the sentence structure was sometimes off, and that there were a lot of words that were spelled wrong. I tried going back through it, but although I did see a few errors, it didn't seem to warrant some of the comments. Still, I...

(Love takes many forms. It follows many avenues into our hearts. He who has learned something of those forms and avenues should not be surprised to find that the supposedly lesser creatures we choose for our companions know and experience love, as well. Bruno would tell you, but then, being a...

A Zealots Hand , by Emiliozapata The deterioration had been troubling him for some time. Everyday it seemed there was a story on the news or in the paper , sometimes even second hand stories of second hand stories of friends or acquaintances. The theme was generally always the same; vile...

About our Saturday trip East. It started early Saturday morning when the phone rang. I was sleeping next to my wife, and the phone was ringing away. I waited for her to move, but she just laid there. I thought she must want me to get it, so I picked up my head and looked at the clock. Through...

This actually happened to us this afternoon ;) I got to visit a neighbor that I hadn't seen since autumn. We were walking his land and meandered into the barn. Like me, Clay stores all sorts of stuff and never throws away anything. Anyhow, I noticed a new addition to his collection...a...

After the End by Fastback65 Chapter 1 The thin red rubber pad slammed into Frank's shoulder as the 150 grain projectile spun its way out of the twenty six inch long barrel. Freeing its self from the restriction of the barrel, the lead rocket reached a velocity of over three thousand...

New writer who is "one of us" has a book out. Easy, quick read. Nothing mind blowing but a fun read that's not too heavy while still being in the survival genre. Kind of along the lines of Rawles, Braken, Tom Sherry, etc but with more humor and doesnt take stuff too seriously. ...

Algebra The sounds of the game in the head set didn’t mask Mom’s footsteps in the hall. Her steps stopped at my bedroom door and I hit the computer key that brought up the screen with my Algebra homework. She knocked as she barged into my room, polite and rude at the same time. “Cliff? How’s...

In case you didn’t see it on the news, there was an alien invasion here in Central Washington a couple of months ago. Yup its true, big ugly gooey things showed up wanting to set themselves up as the top dog in the neighborhood. Most people don’t know what happened since the military clamped...

Allakaket Airlines Book III In the North to Alaska Series by Fleataxi Chapter 1 - New Kid in Town Ron moved Anne into Jim’s house, and moved into his new house on the hill. It was huge, cold, and lonely. The wood walls were over a foot thick, and the huge garage housed 2 pickups,...

Alone by Fastback65 Chapter 1 Lying on the bed of pine straw, watching the morning sun work it's way up through the tangle of limbs on it's journey to the top of the sky, Lyle tried to remember the last time he had seen another human being. He thought it had to have been at least a...

I woke up. Or did I dream I woke up? So am I in a dream of waking up or did I wake up from dreaming about waking up? I tried pinching myself.........and it hurt! As I look around everything seems normal,the bed,windows,the usual. But hey, why shouldnt I see this in a dream? Or even feel the...

It was a crisp,cold December day. The sky was cloud and chem free, with little or no breeze. It was a good day, I decided. As fine a day as there had been since Amanda died. The view was magnificent from my position near a window on the third floor of a boarded up warehouse. Business had really...