Clik here to view.
30 Cubed – 30 short stories, 30 characters, 30 days
For the last couple of years, I have participated in a variety of writing challenges to spur my creativity (and quietly drive my wife to distraction). My favorite three were 30 Short Stories in 30 Days...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Tales of Tech Support (3)
Forget Me Not “Hello ma’am, Farnsworth’s Monster Emporium and Death-ray Dealership, how can I help you this morning? Excuse me? You don’t know who you are? Do you know where you are? There is a coffee...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anger Without Enthusiasm (1)
“I haven’t been able to sleep.” Ben whimpered to his psychiatrist who doodled in the margins of his pad. The doctor stopped listening five minutes ago as his client went into his usual rant about his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anger Without Enthusiasm (2)
The Barghest, as large as a bloody calf, seemed even more terrifying up close. Clifford Engram questioned the decision to offer it a job so soon after finding himself flat on the ground with the brute...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Corroded Man
I saw the Corroded Man again today. This was one of the things I had enjoyed the most since I was a child of nine summers. It was at my favorite festival here in Madrid. Mom said he was always there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Within Arms Reach (1)
Claude Marks was a man down on his luck. He lost his job as a gas station attendant a year ago and paradoxically seemed unqualified for any work which could support even his meager lifestyle, such as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Entropy
We chased him for forty days and forty nights. He eluded us, he deceived us, he made us fight against each other, he tormented us and mislead us. And yet he could not escape us. For all of our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unnatural Gas
An industrialist puts on his mask, his plastic face, his expensive suit and brings an indentured lawyer out into town with him. He stops at a rally and in a rather unconvincing fashion reminds the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Tales of Tech Support (4)
“Hello sir, Farnsworth’s Monster Emporium and Death-ray Dealership, this is Todd speaking. How can I help you this morning?” “Can you speak up sir, I’m having a little trouble hearing you. Ah, you’re...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doctor Who: 50 Years of Traveling Through Time and Space
Answers from the Scifi.stackexchange.com: What is the correct way to refer to the Doctor? How many Companions chose to leave the Doctor? Why did the Doctor tell Amy he couldn’t age? Who or What is the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aethermancer: Saga of the Clockwork King
Rhackomanon: The Sixth Demon Prince An Untimely Meeting a tale of Mythic Qin She was a vision in black, her hair braided in tiny rows, held close to her scalp and then plaited together ran down her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hikaru Dorodongo
a tale of Mythic Qin I arrived at the temple when I was just a child of eleven summers. The bandits that killed my family were the remnants of an enemy army that had been routed by the Clockwork King...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SIX – The Doctor is In
“Mr. Hyde I presume?” A quiet and subtle voice, barely heard above the howling wind outside the hundred and second floor of Grayson Tower, the tallest building in the center of Hub City. “I suppose I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HYDE (3)
Measure of a Man a tale of hub city “I want him dead.” The flamboyantly dressed man wearing the sharkskin suit has new teeth, implants to replace his own which were rotting away. Being a Russian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spleen Rupturing Time
How could she leave me here? She knows I hate the sun. It so hot, I think my stuffing is melting. It’s been hours. I think she’s forgotten me. Feel myself getting weaker. What is that thing coming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hub City Blues (3)
The Host – The Gates of Perdition (1) a tale of hub city A cold, grey night in Hub City, a night where everyone walks a little faster to get home, looks over their shoulder a bit more often and prays...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hub City Blues (4)
The Host – The Gates of Perdition (2) a tale of hub city Derdekea’s paper sword squeezed tightly in her left hand throbs as the darkness consumes all the light in the room. Only the sputtering glow of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where the Sun Touches the Earth
A Tale of Cats versus Evil A haughty woman festooned in heavy brass jewelry, the tacky kind, loud, banging and discordant, stands looking at a rhyming dragon who is gazing into a viewing pool with her....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flying Potion
Lamiarum Unguenta (Witches Unguent): “By boiling (a certain fat) in a copper vessel, they get rid of its water, thickening what is left after boiling and remains last. Then they store it, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Aspect War (5)
Fallen Angel Lightning flashed. The Archangel Michael waited. He heard the warning claxons, not heard since the Great War and extended his senses to the Guardians at the Four Gates. Each had turned its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dead Already
My doctor told me I had cancer. And it was inoperable. I didn’t hear anything else he said for about five minutes. When I could hear again. He said the best I could do was to make the next six months...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ouroboros Rising
“Apprentice.” “Yes, master.” “It’s time.” I help him up and walk him into his study. He is paper-thin, light like a bird, a wisp of the force I remember from my youth. I can feel the fire burning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (1)
My morning started out like any other, late for work, hung over, and wearing sunglasses. My car was in the shop, again, piece of shyte, so I was on the train. A quick sprint turns my cheap poly-blend...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (2)
I couldn’t breathe. My whole body felt shrouded, covered by an unyielding barrier. My ears were ringing and I could smell hair, plastic, electrical wiring burning. I tried to move and as I wriggled my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (3)
There is a medicinal tang to the air of a hospital, an unmistakable, sharp biting odor, punctuated by the constant release of new chemicals and drones swishing them about promoting the illusion of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (4)
His name was spoken among the Vampyr in hushed overtones; if you spoke of him at all. He was the boogey-man of boogey-men. His real name was lost to antiquity. He was called the Shepherd. Like a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (5)
Hospitals, if they can be said to have a character, would have developed it based on the people they saved. Mount Sinai was a hospital who would have been said to have been a guardian of the poor, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (6)
Los Angeles airspace, 2038 – three years ago Flight Transcript: Classified – Top Secret TELEMETRY AND BIOMETRIC DATA INCLUDED “Whiskey Niner One, Whiskey Niner One, this is Flight Command. ETA to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red Star, White Sun (7)
“You still don’t drive do you?” “Carol, of course I can drive. If it has wheels, wings, or can be submerged, I can pilot it. I have driven chariots in Rome, elephants in Istanbul, horses in Mongolia,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hyde (1 & 2)
Portrait of a Modern Monster a tale of Hub City If you commit a crime in Hub City, it’s said the wind will reveal your sin to him. Pray the police find you. Before he does. I was a policeman in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Tales of Tech Support (1)
“Good afternoon, ma’am, this is Todd, Farnsworth’s Monster Emporium and Deathray Dealership, how can I help you?” “Yes ma’am, we make a variety of autonomous giant robots and death machines. Oh, you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Tales of Tech Support (2)
“Hello ma’am, Farnsworth’s Monster Emporium and Death-ray Dealership, how can I help you this morning?” “No ma’am we were not aware of any defects in our “Instant Piranha” product line. Yes ma’am, you...
View Article
