Kevin Lawver leaves AOL…and Ficlets
Kevin Lawver, the AOL developer behind the amazing short collaborative fiction site Ficlets, has taken a position with another company after 13 years at AOL. I learned about it first in a tweet earlier this morning. That was followed not long after by a subsequent blog post on Ficlets.
Kevin built an absolutely amazing site in Ficlets, one that I wish I had more time to play around with. It’s funny, actually, how every time I go to the site with the intent to write a ficlet, I instead end up wasting the better part of an hour simply reading the fantastic content the site’s dedicated community has created. It’s a bit unfair to say I “waste” time there — no amount of minutes or hours are enough to soak in the wonderful contributions there.
I’m really eager to see what the future holds for Kevin. From what time I have been able to spend playing around with Ficlets, I can tell he’s a hugely talented Rails developer. He’s gotten an opportunity to lead a team with a small company to build Rails apps, and I wish him the best. I only hope that Ficlets is allowed to continue in his absence.
So, congratulations, Kevin! I will be watching your Twitter stream in earnest to see where you land.
I live in the sheltered land of the midwest, born and raised in a small farming town in the center of Iowa. I am passionate about my family, writing science fiction, playing video games, and exploring the internet. Most of my daily thoughts and minutiae are posted either on my 
Thanks for the kind words, Nathaniel! Watching ficlets grow and the community develop has been the highlight of my career, and I hate to leave it. But, this opportunity was too good to pass up. I’ll still be around from time to time just to check in.
Ficlets is more incredible than anyone could have imagined. I was reading a series about a western cowboy catholic preacher-zombie killer collaborated on by a South African software designer an 8th grade girl(her profile said she loves horse riding) a published author(will remain nameless), and an eleven time felon who picked up writing in prison. I saw a snoody college proffessor try to correct a forth grader on her grammer and the fourth grader replied, “Ever heard of EE Cumings, well if not grammer was meant to serve the author not enslave her.” Fourth Grade, writing stories, creating, If ficlets isn’t allowed to continue, i might have to start the Ficlets Martyrs Brigade so watch out AOL, like the fourth grader said the internet is to serve us not enslave us. .