#ficlets

"ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial. I will keep this site up as long as I'm able (it's extremely simple and not costing me anything)."

"Like a phoenix from the ashes, something new is in the process of being born. I give you ficly."

"AOL is shutting down Ficlets on January 15, and in their infinite corporate wisdom and understanding of how communities on the Internet work, they're not providing any easy way to archive the stories you've written there beyond advising that you try "copying the text and pasting it into a plain text or Word document." Right. That's going to be really fun and easy for people who have written dozens of Ficlets. [::facepalm::]"

"I haz wordz now. You no more put kitteh in bukkit! Kitteh put you in bukkit!"

"Below we'll explore some start ups that take creative writing into the Web 2.0 era."

"XSLT has always amazed me. And to see that it can be used to scrape Ficlets.com -- which indeed was intentionally designed to enable its web pages to be an API -- makes me realize that XSLT could become an incredibly valuable tool in the Web's future."

"A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel."