The Temporal Casualty
I stand before the playpen staring down at the wolf pup. He stares back his golden eyes curious. he's not afraid; why would he be? He doesn't know why I'm here, he doesn't recognize the weapon I have pointed at him. He's innocent, but he won't always...
Never Taste Freedom
Hector Elizondo hadn't been looking for it, but he'd found a solution to quitting smoking. First day I met him, he had a cigarette stuck between his lips. His goofy, smug smile held his cig at an upward angle so I thought he might stick the damn thing...
A Quiet Evening with Sorin and Bryan
Reclining precariously in his low slung camp chair, the two back legs digging into the denuded soil, Sorin looked out across the clearing and over the trees around his remote cabin, deep in the wooded foot hills of the brisk, Appalachian mountains. At...
What Comes After the Rapture
What comes after Rapture? Steve shook his head in disappointment and stepped over a corpse as he entered his favorite bar. He waved to the bunny at the bar, "Hey Michael, my usual. And what happened to Stephen? Weren't you just bragging it'd been...
End of an Era
What happened to us? We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea. A single...
Rainy Day
Delilah looked through her fogging windshield, resigned, pulling over with what was left of the dying motor onto the shoulder of the lonely interstate. The beat up Toyota, with its old, cracked, faux leather seats, missing volume knob on the well loved...
Just What You Do
They really needed to get the lighting fixed in here. Only the dull red glow of the exit sign. Not that it mattered; I could climb these stairs in my sleep. Which step creaked. Just where to reach for the bar and shove open the door. My foot didn't...
The Scientific Inquirer, Article 1
_The Scientific Inquirer_ **Revolutionary Treatment for Rodents Found?** Published: September 17th, 2020 In this day and age, many major illnesses are but a memory of a distant past. What we suffer from are but trifles to such horrid plagues as...
A Lay in the Park
A Lay in the Park Nicholas stood on the top most tier of the playscape pretending to captain his ship as several of his friends ran about him miming the hoisting of sails. The park about him was a sea, and the peoples drifting through on their...
Fur
This is the Diary of Lorraine Small Sao Fei I cringed writing that. What kind of parents name their daughter Lorraine? It's weird. Speaking of weird, whose parents leave a cub in a crate with sickos halfway around the world? Mine, that's who. Ack...
Hellevator
It would have to be shift changeover when the lady came in; but then again Silas expected nothing less. One didn't rise far in the force without a healthy degree of pessimism. He supposed she was comely enough as squirrels go--reddish fur, purse...
Cursed, Eternal Wish (By MouseJ)
It seemed like the most logical wish to make at the time. Back then, all those millions of years ago, people lived only to be 25 or so before they got claimed by dinos or infection. So, the most logical request to make when you approach a meteorite...