Category: Fiction
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Emergency Landing
Everything is hopeless. Fuck it all.Alarms blared. There’s a hiss of air coming from somewhere in the cabin. Lights were flashing. The planet’s surface was rapidly approaching. The baffling on the nose of the ship was on fire.Sweat poured down her face. The other two were out cold. It’s up…
Suddenly a Spider!
“UGH” She huffed. “Alec, turn down Sleepy Head” She called to the other room. Every night he played Sleepy Head, like it was some funny joke. She could hear that bassline and that tinny noise and immediately recognize the song. Stupid stupid song.The song suddenly cut off. Meghan sighed at…
Mothering a Man
Dear Pru,I was at my wits end with him. I was exhausted by his mood swings, his irritability, unwillingness to listen, and just the fact that he would suddenly turn into a giant toddler.So, I’ve been seeing this guy for about a year now. Most of the time, things are…
A Lonesome Man
A man is staring into his fire place. He’s graying at the temples. His goatee has flecks of gray. The fire crackles invitingly.The rest of the room is cloaked in dancing shadow. The worn leather chair casts large looming shadows across the back wall. The edges of the chair jut…
Burnt Forest
Two small squirrel like animals were chasing each other. One happened to catch the other and they rolled across the gently sloping grass covered hill.A mechanical hiss startled both animals from their frivolity. They darted away towards the nearest tree. The slower of the two barely making it out from…
Umhat
Umhat felt the shockwave, the second, and then the earth trembled. He turned to his crew. They were loaded in the bike’s cargo hold, they were ready. Umhat nodded and began to pedal.He raced. Getting there first was critical for the success of the colony. Getting there first, but making…
A Strange Traveler
I felt my cart roll to a stop. The gravel crunched beneath the hooves of my mule. It was a dumb brutish animal and didn’t like stopping only moderately less than starting again. It was an animal that liked things to be consistent. I tried to understand why the mule…
Dragon’s War
Cyrus’s stomach was in his throat. He could barely keep down his lunch. Even after 50 years, Lilly, his Dragon, still managed to find new ways to shock Cyrus with her maneuverability.Cyrus glanced up at the passing matte black dragon. Its own rider struggling to stay mounted. As they leveled…
Quite the Trip
Elane pushed her daughter into school. Allyson was a freshman in high school, she’d been paralyzed by her drunkard father. Makalya walked next to Elane, she wasn’t too happy about walking into school, her first day of high school, with her mother. Elane was tired. It had been a struggle,…