Clik here to view.
A Man Who Wasn’t There (2)
A Man Who Wasn't There (2) Clifford Engram, cursed operative of the Agency, a paranormal investigative group is assigned to a case his office calls the Locked Door Strangler. Murders have been taking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Man Who Wasn’t There (3)
Dominique LaStrade was a vital woman in her seventies. Smooth-skinned and midnight black, only the tiniest crows feet in the corner of her eyes and slight frown lines in the corner of her mouth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (2)
Have you ever worked on-call? No? Never let anyone convince you the money is worth it. Because it isn’t. The people who hired you and told you that you would be getting an obscene amount of money never...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (3)
“Was it a big beast? With sharp cruel fangs?” –Gaston, Beauty and the Beast I drove into New York and parked at the Waldorf Astoria. I had a standing arrangement with the management. They watched my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (4)
Manny drove us down to 42nd Street and Grand Central Station. The entire area was cordoned off so we were forced to park about five blocks away and walk back. There were dozens of police, paramilitary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (6)
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us. – Ian Rush Fifteen minutes can turn your entire world upside down. You get this on good authority. I made this trip just to see what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (7)
A hair divides what is false and true. –Omar Khayyam “Since you are late, you can stop and bring me what’s left of my broken servant.” The telepathic message was imperious, haughty and downright...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (8)
You believe you can separate fantasy from reality. You’re starting from an incorrect premise. You believe there is a difference. –The Night Train The storm elementals closed us and the burning stink of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motus Vita (9)
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. –Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “Beyond Good...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Insurrection: The Devil You Don’t
Traveling Light approached from the dark side of the Earth-sized Precursor artifact, keeping the planet between them and the polar radiation jet of the Malcanari Singularity. As the vessel penetrated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hub City Blues (1)
Hungry Secrets a tale of Hub City Carol, I have been on the road for several weeks after leaving Buffalo. I tried to go toward New York but the flood of refugees tell me that it is only a matter of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Equinox: Dancing in the Dark (2)
equinox – the last scion (part 2) Umbra took off his hat and threw it at one of the Light. Halfway there, it changed its shape and became a hawk made of shadow. Its razor sharp wings sliced off the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Insurrection: Out of Time
a tale of the twilight continuum Θ Time. When you are an AI Complex or more commonly an Image, you have lots of time on your hands. Okay, technically I don’t have any hands, but you get what I mean....
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.
The Aspect War (4)
Only Here for the Food Mammon ate. It did not really matter what he was eating, only that he did. Mammon was always eating. No, that’s not right. Mammon was always hungry. No amount of eating ever...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Equinox: Homecoming (3)
My best name was less than seventy years ago; Kathrin Hart. It was the late 1940’s, and I had crashed in Paris during the Resistance. I was part of a special cargo being delivered to the front to hold...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Care-lessness
It started in the news as a meme. We didn’t understand how contagious a meme could be. Face-biting was how it started. A single news article began the disease. Our inter-connectedness spread the meme....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Aspect War (2)
Hail the Spirit Army Ptah laughed. The sun rose over what looked like the city of Cairo. The early morning light cleared the horizon and was bright and sharp, stinging the eyes with its searing,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great White Spot
From space, it looked like a ball of blue and brown; blue oceans swirled with windblown whitecaps and the occasional tiny island could be found, but most were scoured clean by the Last Storm. You...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Arrivals – Tales of The New Earth (3)
Chen Zhan woke this morning like she had for over twenty years, quietly, slowly and with great care. Her back muscles were stiff from sleeping on the smooth and cold marble floor of the office...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Equinox: Welcome to Providence (7)
equinox – the last scion (part 7) We, I mean me and the Hat, walked for what seemed like days. The desert gave way to a road. It was paved but no cars ever seemed to travel along it. We walked for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Demon Chef: Fine Dining (1)
Part the First: In where we meet our hero, Gen Shishio. We learn why Gen Shishio’s uncle drinks so much and why moving away did not solve the dilemma of the family business. My name is Gen Shishio and...
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 (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.
Chaos Bound (1)
She walked through the mountains, nearly naked, except for the demon armor she had through sorcery most foul, forced to do her bidding. It was now proof against wind, weather or weapons. In the fashion...
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.
Equinox: Native Daughter (4)
“Hey kid, what are you doing out here? Kid, can you hear me?” When I woke up, I was sitting in the back seat of my father’s SUV. It was cold and my face was sticky. My back hurt alot and I felt sick...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Insurrection: Biyu’s Story
a tale of the twilight continuum Θ “They are all asleep,” Biyu said to Chuntra. Biyu was finished strapping Master Wex down and checking for his vitals from the medical chair. He was well within the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Aspect War (3)
The Fall of Avalon Cuculane ran. His footfalls ghost-like, his legs blurred through the undergrowth, whipping up a trail of dust, grass and leaves. The wind carried his all consuming rage, a spicy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Aspect War (6)
Sabra’s Cats Sabra smiled. She brought her cat in from the outside. She was an older woman who had lived in the tenement in the Bronx for as many years as she could remember. She had a number of cats...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hayward’s Reach
a tale of the twilight continuum Θ From the ansible memoirs of Exalted Scout, Glendale Mokoto, Hero of the Exodus Wars and the Fall of Earth. These are an amalgam of the earliest recordings before he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Aspect War – Prologue (0)
Slumber She slept. If you can call this thing of nightmare a her; dragon scales rippled with a watery sheen and the ever-so slight rise and fall of her breath. Each scale shone as if it were comprised...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sisters
An excerpt from a fall to earth Θ 2072 Common Era, five years after the Singularity The African Continent, The Serengeti The air was hot and still, not a surprise considering the time of year, but...
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.
House of Oak: Red Star, White Sun (8)
Broken Promises a tale of the house of oak When I woke he was sitting there again. His suit was a different cut and color than the one I saw him in when I fell asleep yesterday. As far as I knew he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Equinox: Sun Struck (5)
The Sun rose over a desert. This is not your Sun. Hotter, more pure, the essence of sunlight. Fiercely white-hot, if you found yourself here, you would be nearly blinded for a time. A light so bright...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Equinox: Loa (6)
“Did you understand me, child? You must Remember. Now wake.” The voice that spoke to me was as much of a question as why I woke with a mouth full of sand, in a place hotter than Hell. Okay, one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pax Cyridian
a tale of the Twilight Continuum Hanging from the side of a building, cloaked in shadow, I could see the lights from the police roachsters sweeping the warehouse district and knew that we could not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Übermensch
a tale of hayward’s reach I found her behind our lines in a field not too far from a downed Messerschmidt Me 262. We had pushed the Germans back out of Paris and had retaken the countryside in early...
View ArticleClik here to view.
House of Oak: Red Star, White Sun (9)
Cancelled Contracts a tale of the house of oak A shot rang out. Followed by a second. To a normal human, there is barely more than an instant between the two. To a Sherak, there is plenty of time for...
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.
Excerpt – Insurrection: Chapter 1
Excerpt – Insurrection: Chapter 1 a tale of the Twilight Continuum The air felt cool as it flew by my face; thick, steamy, sluggish, with just the touch of the hinterlands of Lorrisi, a nearby forest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Countdown at the Memory Palace (1)
I underwent the surgery to remove half my brain when my epilepsy became my full time job. The surgeons told my parents they were in touch with a technology firm who was interested in my case and wanted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Countdown at the Memory Palace (2)
“Melissa. You’ve got to wake up.” My brother’s voice was distant like I was hearing him in a dream. A pleasant dream, something far away from how good I was feeling at the moment. I was dreaming I was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Countdown at the Memory Palace (3)
Our family’s house was built on a hill. On the back side of that hill was a canyon where other rich people lived happily, thinking they were buying some of the safest land in the world. Never too much...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Man Who Wasn’t There (1)
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away… When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Questing
Seeking our source, our subsistence, survival, our solace, salvation the mazes of meaning between love and death —from “Cloudsong” by Sirette, called “the sister of Car” Chapter 1. To see if it flies...
View Article
