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No Filter
I got a flyer today. I haven’t seen one of these in a while. A flyer I meant. Not what was written on it. No sir. Ever since Augmented Reality made the cell phone obsolete, printed paper just wasn’t a thing you used these days. But here it was, printed in digital CMYK eco-safe toner.… Read more
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Blood in a Green Sea
“Too smart for his own good,” Jackie Osgood’s father once said of him, “but not smart enough to leave town.”Mr. Osgood never doled pure compliments to anybody. After all, Pride was a deadly sin. Praise came with a bite; no one was smart, they were too smart for their own good, no one was strong,… Read more
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The Escape of Professor Cobblebuck
It had been fifteen days since Professor Cobblebuck landed in the mysterious land of Mushyville and was captured and held prisoner by the Luminess. The landing process had destroyed his travel pod, leaving him without any means of communication with the outside world.The prison cell he was in was made of some sort of slimy,… Read more
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Father Time
Gaia Solomon was eight years old when Father Time first visited her in her dreams. She was always close to her real father, a light-hearted and untroubled carpenter whom she was not always familiar with for being poorly. When she turned seven, however, things changed. Her father had suffered from a stroke and fortunately that time he was in the kitchen with her… Read more
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The Necropolitan Man
Ulfric Sai-Burr was widely regarded as the best necropolis raider in the business. This was not because he had replaced his left eye with a cyberport, though the optic nerve was known to give the best neural-cyber interface link. It was not that he was some anti-corporate rebel fueled by a burning hatred for the socio-economic system of the twenty-second… Read more
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DAWN
Elbow-deep in the guts of an XL-5 memory unit, Pavo was beginning to question his life choices. There was only a thin gap between the unit’s hard, shell-like casing and the riveted bulkhead and this space was darker than the sky between stars; a thick, sticky darkness that seemed easy to drown in. It introduced… Read more
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