The Master Plan- Part 1

We are only trying to make things better.   1.A year ago.      The terrorist attacks were now getting more and more ferocious, far too regular and incredibly better planned. It seemed that almost daily somewhere in the world a plane, boat or building would be blown to smithereens. The whole damn planet was in turmoil; normal methods of control were no longer working. This needed a new angle, fresh idea...

04/08/2008 | 102 Hits | 1 comment | (1 vote) | Read more...

Five pints of cider & a packet of crisps

FIVE PINTS OF CIDER AND A PACKET OF CRISPS Harold Hogworth sat in the pub nursing a half empty pint of cider.   Harold, or Hogg as he was affectionately known, was from hard-working farming stock.  He was strong from long hard days of toiling on and egging on the land to give up even a morsel of its bounty. There was never any joy in Hogg’s face.  He had all the cares in the world and he showed it.&nb...

04/07/2008 | 149 Hits | 7 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

The Subway Angel

Monkeys drinking tea, monkeys drinking tea getting fuzzier, fuzzier, awake. 11:11am. Fuck that shit. Working at Pac Sun, working, working, Ooh free money, working, fuzzy, fuzzier, awake. 12:45pm. Nope. Piss. Blank. Awake. 2:45pm. Ehhh... (thinking) Ohh shit subways $5 for any footlong still goin on? Hells yeah... Fuck it, too tired, get it tomorrow. (outloud) I wish there was a Subway Angel... *POOF* 'Here you go, Mr. Esoid, a foot long bacon...

04/07/2008 | 140 Hits | 1 comment | (1 vote) | Read more...

War is Hell 2

War is Hell 2 By Mathew Scamardella It has been 3 months since Max the last Special Technical Marine killed John and also after Max told the Northern leader about how John betrayed them because of an traitor in their Government and how he believes it and now the Northern World General has been granted to the rank of Northern World Brigadier.In Max’s quarter which is dark, cold and dead silence Max is seating thin...

04/06/2008 | 125 Hits | 5 comments | (1 vote) | Read more...

Life's Work

Isaac Bexar knew that in order to do what he needed to do, there would be much sacrifice. A normal family was out of the question. Having drinks with friends, small talk, watching sports, loving life in general was all out. He had come to realize this bleak understanding, not too far into his early research. There was an absolute thing in his heart, and that was the project. If he was never paid a dime, if he had to give up one or t...

04/05/2008 | 155 Hits | 3 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

Team Phantom

President Scott Hughes entered the N.A.T.O. conference center. It was located directly underneath a mountain which had been filled with concrete and was surrounded by soldiers, vehicles and N.A.T.O. Forces. “Good day President there waiting for you inside” said an armed guard who was stationed just outside the conference room door. Scott looked at the rank insignia on his soldier. A Sergeant. Ever since the attempted bombing of the ...

04/04/2008 | 153 Hits | 5 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

War is Hell

War is Hell By Mathew Scamardella (Doctor) 2010 the planet Earth becomes two parts, Southern World and Northern World. 2015 the two new worlds declare war on earch other, making it World War 3 then in 2020, because the Southern world had some great physical fighters and was getting High Tech Nuclear weaponery guns. The Northern World leader declares that using the unlimited and ultimate energy of pure moon light, which wa...

04/04/2008 | 168 Hits | 10 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...

The Pax Way: One- The Diner Cook

The diner called Rosie's was modeled after those long ago diners on Terra Prime. It had the well worn linoleum who's color had long ago turned that bland cream that comes with age and high traffic. It's walls were a strange butter yellow and the rustic lights and ceiling fans did more than the holo screens on the windows to convince patrons that they were really eating on a planet. That was why Rosie's was the major draw at Orbital Stati...

04/03/2008 | 105 Hits | 3 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Rouge's Realm Revealed (Chapter One)

Rouge's Realm Revealed   Chapter One   Returning to the den with snack and drink in hand, my breather from my addiction to the latest online game craze faded instantly at the sight of her sitting there. Maybe four feet tall and with skin whiter than paste, who is she? Only a flowing wide gold ribbon wrapped twice around her strong and near perfect body kept concealed what she did not want seen. Her appearance w...

04/03/2008 | 101 Hits | 5 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

Robot Resurrection

           My name was Bill, Bill Johnson, I'd been a caretaker at Nanocorp for eighteen years, when it happened, when I died, it wasn't supposed to happen, I suppose I'd just got careless, I shouldn't have been working on my own, the health and safety executive have had a field day with this case, after all, it is the first time that anyone has been able to give evidence at their own inquest ...

04/03/2008 | 150 Hits | 4 comments | (5 votes) | Read more...

Replacement

Pete stood at the end of the row and fretted, it wasn't the condition of the plant's that was bothering him, the crop looked healthy and green, it also looked as if this year's yield would probably be the best yet, he studied the label again, the problem was what he was growing. He thought back to his principled day's at college, he'd marched and campaigned like all the rest, he'd been a student it was what you did, there'd been Amnesty interna...

04/02/2008 | 148 Hits | 3 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

Ari's Hands

Altrun Space Station 3 days after android takeover. The wiring to the safe room was shit. Without warning the lights would go off, throwing the room into total darkness. They returned after a second, but the computer was another story. “Damnit,” Taylor said, after the third outage in the past hour. He turned and checked that the prince hadn’t been awoken. The fourteen year old boy lay sleeping peacefully...

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Daniel's Discovery

     "Mathew ignored the horrendous smell, but he passed out as the brown goo sprayed onto his hands."  Recognizing a voice he had not heard in months, Daniel McGreer didn't even wait for the sentence to end before he tossed his communicator into his lab coat and walked into the transport sheet.   As he popped into his lab he saw a group of N-droids standing around the examination table.  Se...

04/02/2008 | 137 Hits | 7 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

The Night of Fire & Light (The End)

With the lantern in one hand and his pistol with one bullet in the other, Barney lowered first his left leg, then the right one into that dark abyss. ­As he made his way down he looked up once and thought he could see the Little Dipper in the sky above the mouth of the crater. He thought of Thelma, and how she loved to drive out to Lover's Leap and gaze at the light show of night stars. Andy was right: Thelma was his girl, and he love...

04/01/2008 | 67 Hits | 2 comments | (1 vote) | Read more...

The Night of Fire & Light (Part 8)

      Thelma answers the phone,­ "Hello?"       "Hi, Thelma?" says Helen.­ "Have you got a minute? It's about Andy and Barney."       Thelma looks up and out at the street through the curtains. "Yes, Helen, what about Andy and Barney?"       "I don't really know how to a...

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The Night of Fire & Light (Part 7)

      As Andy weighed his responsibility to provide immediate rescue against the logic of getting additional help, his thoughts wandered back to the summer of '59. ­It was late June when the Johnston's baby girl went missing from the front yard of their farm over by the Griffen County line. Andy had put together a huge search party and combed the entire region without success.­ He had sent out posters to th...

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The Night of Fire & Light (Part 6)

Aunt Bee puts the last dry dish in the cupboard over the sink, then walks to the stove where she checks on dinner. The roast is coming along fine, she thinks. Andy will be pleased. She's pulling out a pot from under the sink when Opey walks in the back door from school. "Hi, Aunt Bee, I'm home."       "I can see that.­ Why are you home so early?­ This is two days in a row now," she...

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The Night of Fire & Light (Part 5)

Soon they were deep within the trees, and both had to push branches from one side then the other ­to clear the way. Above them their view of the sky was now obscured by an overlay of branches that hung menacingly like a huge spider's web; and a new darkness: blacker, denser, enveloped them, gently squeezing cold fear from every pore. ­Without lantern and flashlight, they'd have surely gotten lost in the woods that now surrounded t...

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The Night of Fire & Light (Part 4)

      "Hey, Wanyta," Bill calls, "how 'bout my apple pie? ­Does I have to come and get it myself?"       "Hold your horses, Bill. What's your hurry, afraid your boy'll run you out of business while you're having lunch?" Wanyta says.       She returns from pouring coffee at table four, slides the half empty pot back ont...

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The Night of Fire & Light (Part 3)

They walked, and under their feet the dirt felt dry and hard. Barney pointed down towards the meadow across a neighboring field. "Those lights must be from Martha Crow's place.­ Bet she's got the blankets pulled up tight tonight."       Andy looked at the small farmhouse that seemed no bigger than his thumb from this far away. ­He thought of old Mrs. Crow ­who had been his teache...

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