Darkfire Ch.2- Revelations

“Asssshwagandaa et feleeeesh”     The words whisper through my head, softly at first, but growing in intensity, like a faraway pot of boiling water. I can’t tell if the creature is physically speaking or if it is all in my head. It’s eyes are still burning a hole in mine. It stops speaking and waits, as if expecting a response; a response I sure as hell don’t have.     My sile...

01/14/2008 | 175 Hits | 2 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...

Alliance of Minds (part two)

  “You are something of an anomalous phenomenon, sir. Even to our, well, most unusual order” I looked up at the man as he sat on one of my kitchen table chairs. His shock white hair was most disconcerting to me, as he looked like a young man, about twenty five years old or so, close to my own age. His skinny flesh hung close to the skull of his face. His eyes were huge, enormous bulbous things that never blinked....

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Planet Galapagos I

I, for one, admire the populace of the planet Bylon. However, they are no longer able to recall why one would envy them. For the most part, their history was passed down orally, parents to offsprings. This pattern was repeated in the subsequent years, and as with all institutions controlled by the mind, the truth was exaggerated or disused. Perhaps writing is the child of truth. For many years this culture continued, never stopping to ...

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Space Assassin

Vladimir clenched his fist and scowled. The sudden pressure change in his gloved hand released the acoustic bomb from his cruiser. The enormous power of the shockwave distorted the atmosphere between his craft and his foe who had lost over 1000 kilometers to him in the last few minutes. The bomb smashed into his enemy’s small, round ship and swatted it forward, increasing the distance between them. This wasn’t what Vladimir expected...

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Eyes and Heart

"This one is quite exquisite... A masterful representation of evolution," a slightly crooked creature marveled. "They are overly complex, if the truth must be said. Complexity is innovation's greatest enemy," the other alien said. "Quite true, quite true... But complexity can stitch the gaps of ignorance. At least for a time," the slightly crooked creature retorted. "Let us begin the probing... ...

01/08/2008 | 393 Hits | 3 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...

A Vampire's Death

Venus placidly brushed her hair in front of her floor mirror. She noticed a speck of dirtiness on her face, she attempted to remove it several times, but it would not come off. She turned towards her bathroom, but as she moved the spot stayed fixed on the mirror. She extended her hand forward to brush it off. She tried whisking it away with the tip of her finger, but it remained stubbornly attached. She then tried polishing it off with th...

01/06/2008 | 569 Hits | 8 comments | (6 votes) | Read more...

A History Lesson

"Okay class," the teacher said in some foriegn tongue, "we will continue where we left off yesterday... So can anyone tell me what their most important contribution to today's society is?" A student promptly answered: 'The evolution of democracy, their constitution was adaptable.' "Very true, very true. But I was looking for their most important contribution in general, what was it?" the teacher asked th...

01/05/2008 | 302 Hits | 3 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Full Circle

I had arrived in a futuristic world, a world where a time traveling camera could sit in a corner, collecting dust and the walls served as the camera's viewing screen. As I sat, marveling at the equipment, only able to contemplate their uses, I detected arguing in an adjacent room. I moved so my view peered into the room; my eyes revealed a man and a woman standing across from each other exchanging harsh words. Spontaneously, I observed the wo...

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Future Entertainment

"Hey, Hans! Did you see the show last night?" Dieter earnestly asked. "Ah man, I had to miss it. Work. The best game show, and I missed it 'cause'a work," Hans sighed in agitation. The show was the new craze sweeping the world. Everyone agreed, it was the greatest thing since a man managed to moon-hop everyone of Saturn's moons. And that was watched by 90% of the world. This was a weekly show, and it att...

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The End of the Begining

On December 25, 1991 Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev went on International Television to declare an end to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. It was a cover-up. Two Hours later Warsaw Pact Troops poured into Free Berlin and West Germany. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, killed Soviet and Warsaw Pact Troops by the millions, but ultimately succumbed to the Soviet onslaught. By 1993, mainland Europe was under mostly under Soviet c...

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Lessons

The old man lay in his bed. As he glanced around the room, he did not really see the things that met his eyes, like a tired reader of a novel whose eyes will skim over the words without actually reading them. The stained bedsheets had bunched up underneath him, and over the course of a few days had rubbed the fragile skin of his lower back until it had become a large weeping sore. The man was aware of the sore, aware of the pain, yet he co...

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Ancient America

“Just one thing Tom… you need to sum up the failure of your nation in one word. What is it?” the teacher asked her nervous student. ”….Uh ignorance,” Tom remembered.   “And why did you choose that?” inquired the instructor.   “Well, they attacked a couple countries, and they never bothered to find out what it was like. They had lots of smart people, but non...

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My Angel

            The moon lit up the dark sky, rain fell to the ground, mimicking the shattered cries of the man.  He stared at her body; rivulets of blood ran down her face only to be washed away by scattered raindrops.  A few feet from the man lay two wings, their whiteness stained by the crimson blood of their dead owner.         &nbs...

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Turmoil II

    A few weeks after breaking some serious ground on the research, we now have some really good working full scale models working in some of the non gravitational areas of the habitat, though some of the issues with power consumption were still slowly being resolved. We still have a lot of work to do but it’s less research, and more production, and marketing. So just like any other project the team that was involved in the...

12/30/2007 | 181 Hits | 2 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...

organic break beats in nature

  The sky hasn’t opened in over a decade. Just a dust bowl of a city is left – deserted, mostly. The residents have moved on to some place better, some place with water, perhaps. We used to theorize where they all disappeared to. Some days it'd be Vienna, and the next it'd be France-- whichever suited our fancy, really. There is just the two of us now. Sometimes we spy the odd straggler loping down one of the back streets, or...

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All Must Fall

When Time began, He created God as a companion. But as with most long term relationships, something unforgivable between them occurred-- God created Nature and Mankind.   At first Time did not mind Nature; it was beautiful, and minded all of His rules, without exception, nor did Nature try to bend them to better suit itself. But when God did created humans, Father Time did not approve.   Human kind fancied immortality...

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The House on Pithos Street

"I'm not going in their, you do it. It was your idea," Frankie whispered hoarsely to his friend Eddie Thinkfore. "You wanted to do it, I was kidding," Eddie Thinkfore implored, clearly dragged there by his friend. The two boys were just, well, being boys. Even in their perfect society, human nature was aloof. Especially in the outskirts, it was not uncommon for a dwelling to become uninhabited for a l...

12/29/2007 | 303 Hits | 5 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

Dark Balance III

    It’s been a few months since he committed his empty murder. He almost forgot about the first experience in the pawn shop when he first gotten his clarity. It’s now almost completely out of his mind as he slips into the routine he’s was so used to in the past though he still keeps the sword close more for a comfort item than anything else.     A comfortable spring day our vagrant is h...

12/25/2007 | 250 Hits | 2 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...

She is Out There

He was floating out in the cold, unforgiving vacuum of space, floating towards her. 'Impossible!' he thought, 'She died! I saw that she died!' It did not matter; he was getting closer to her. When he was five feet from her, the woman tilted up, the two space suits parallel to each other. Then their faces were intertwined, examining the other. “Joan? My God, Joan!?” The man was overwhelmed, tears swelled in his eyes. ...

12/24/2007 | 318 Hits | 4 comments | (5 votes) | Read more...

Darkfire Ch.1

Everything is black. Someone is screaming. It's black because my eyes are shut, but I'm not ready to open them yet. My alarm hasn't gone off yet and I really just want fifteen more minutes of sleep in before I have to get ready for school. Someone screams again. It's got to be one of those kids down the street. They never shut up. Shut up kid. The sounds of gunfire and yelling slowly drift into my sleepy brain. ...

12/23/2007 | 256 Hits | 9 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...