Dark Days

From:    Jason Pruitt ''jason.p@happymail.com'' To:        Edward Barnick ''e.barnick@kingdomengineering.co.uk'' Hey Ned, Another week, another checkpoint. Correction: Another fucking checkpoint. I don't know if this stems from the fact that I'm a naturalized alien, or from my job, or even through my old blog, but every single week I'm flagged down and stopped at one of these little piec...

02/11/2008 | 205 Hits | 1 comment | (4 votes) | Read more...

3000 - Part Four and Conclusion

I felt like I was going to die. But suddenly a light bulb appeared over my head and I aimed the machine towards the sky held the wires together and hit the button. “Ouch,” was all I could say after being shocked. But I didn’t see. Did it work? I looked in the sky but saw no sign of the machine’s laser having shot the ozone restoration ray.     I took off my shoelace and tied the wires together and once ...

02/10/2008 | 172 Hits | 8 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

3000 - Part Three

I was completely distraught. I had come so far and worked so hard. I sat down and looked up.  I was something. It was a little note. I reached up and got it. It was coded. On the back was the code. After a few minutes I figured it out. The note said, “Go to the top of the mountain and dig two feet down.” I was so happy there was still a chance the machine was still here.   As I climbed to the top of the mountain I...

02/10/2008 | 98 Hits | 1 comment | (1 vote) | Read more...

Was it all that Black-and-white? - Part 2

The boy seemed serious about it, and I felt stunned once more. I tried to explain that I was only checking the celebration and that I had no intetion of taking part in the orgy, but he made me go silent with a mere wave of his white hand. "I know you are new here. What ever is your name, please tell me that", he continued. I told my name and kept myself from getting stunned because of the new twist. "Why, Spark, I am ca...

02/10/2008 | 168 Hits | 3 comments | (1 vote) | Read more...

3000 - Part Two

I found the key to my father’s invention room and took his one-man plane. I took it to the launch pad on the roof. As I took a deep breath I hit the start button and was off. I flew into the sky and told the computer I was headed to the center island of the Bermuda Triangle.   As the plane slide over the sky as a sled does snow I felt fear over come me. I knew that the fate of the world was in my hands and if I didn’t ...

02/09/2008 | 184 Hits | 5 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

3000 - Part One

The year was 3000. The world was a mess. The ozone was as thin as a piece of paper, and every country was in the midst of war. Poverty was like a huge black blanket covering the world. I was luckily born into a wealthy family.   My father was a famous inventor and my mother is an actor. My father died when I was fifteen and gave me the map to his latest invention, an ozone thickener. On the back it was written if I didn’t fi...

02/09/2008 | 154 Hits | 6 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Was it all that Black-and-white? - Part 1

"Rick, do not even think of coming down the stairs with those fucking cans!", I shouted upstairs, where my little brother was rattling with some plastic cans that stay in place with a rope. He had been playing with them for a long while by now, but even I wouldn't have dared to walk down the stairs with a couple of five-inch-long cans that are attached only with a rope you keep in hand... Now I watched half terrified as Rick was re...

02/09/2008 | 179 Hits | 3 comments | (1 vote) | Read more...

The Paradox.

The cycle begins. Rays of sunlight rising from the east peel back the serene serotonin induced slumber which curtains the dormant mind; neurons fire, eyelids open and the very first glimpses of morning are received by the conscious mind of a twenty year old girl named Faith. There had always been something fantastical about morning that captivated Faith's curiosity; the death of a temporary awareness giving way to the birth of another as ...

02/07/2008 | 253 Hits | 3 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...

A Zombie Night

Sammy, a pale skinny zombie with long raven black hair and bloody gashes covering his snow white skin, broke into a church one night and spread his collection of paintbrushes on the alter. He had always wanted to be a painter in life, but had never found the time. In un-death all you had was time. Through the window of the one room country church the moon cast its glow on the bare wooden walls. Sammy stared at them, unmoving, decidi...

02/07/2008 | 202 Hits | 3 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...

Angels And Devils

With more than a little fear and trepidation he peered around the corner of the shattered building. Impossibly large figures, encased in their brightly coloured armour ran down the street towards where he cowered, their feet hammering on the road and throwing up stones. They stopped, just a few metres from his position, and checked the contents of one of their vehicles that had been overturned in the road, obviously the victim of one of the dev...

02/06/2008 | 199 Hits | 2 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

House of Minds (part four)

I was not in a good state of mind. I listened to the various people who came to my room, feeling regret that I could not muster enough enthusiasm for what they were telling me as I once might have. The room I found myself in was comfortable, with a nice bed and a desk with a computer, the very computer that I am now recording these accounts of my life, leading up to my discovery of the Answer. You will all know the kind of room I mean, as sur...

02/05/2008 | 309 Hits | 11 comments | (5 votes) | Read more...

Gargolinks

His soul felt as lonely and desolate as the winding road ahead. He thought about his lost family and the last ten years walking the empty roads, carrying a small suitcase packed with a pair of underwear, a clean shirt and dozens of pictures of his wife and two children. It wasn’t bombs, or natural disasters that brought the devastation to Earth, but a virus. A virus that fell from heaven in a spaceship from another world. The virus spr...

02/03/2008 | 151 Hits | 4 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Malachi

Malachi's teeth sunk into his lower lip as he gazed out the window. His heavy breath left a misty trail on the glass every time his lungs compressed. After nearly a week of darkness, the sun was finally beginning to creep above the horizon. "What are you looking at?" asked Jones as he walked through the door. "Huh?" "Oh come on," said Jones. "Are you worried again?" "Well, ...

01/31/2008 | 355 Hits | 7 comments | (7 votes) | Read more...

Enough said, enough done

Enough said, enough done               Horace Tate was twenty nine years old. He was a drug addict and an alcoholic and of no use to anyone he had ever met. He had never held down a job, never even tried. He had spent six of the last nine years in various prisons. He was violent, a robber and a burglar. He was what most law enforcement officers that have ever had dealings...

01/29/2008 | 205 Hits | 3 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

A Failed Resistance

A Failed Resistance            The Resistance against the Bureau, that’s all we are. I really don’t even feel human anymore. I know we haven’t shot innocents like those bastards have done time and time again. But walking around with this gun and these weapons of mass destruction around me. I believe I truly am a demon within. These pieces of machinery give you the p...

01/25/2008 | 192 Hits | 4 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Defining Heaven and Hell: Three

As our young scientists were born into their next existence, a war was raging like daily business. One may wonder why a war was raging after humanity's last peaceful world, but the answer was simple: Laziness. You see, the humans figured another peaceful world would come naturally, after their last step forward. But certain people immediately seized the opportunity, and now the ‘world' was ruled by a single criminal mastermind. Th...

01/25/2008 | 171 Hits | 1 comment | (1 vote) | Read more...

Defining Heaven and Hell: Two

Evan had entered a lateral world, an unreal existence. It was quite the opposite of the Earth. This ‘new world' was inexplicably different from Earth, when one considered this ‘new world's' inhabitants were the same as Earth. Human. Children dashed about and adults socialized freely, as if nothing was amiss, in this new human abyss. But trouble loomed for those who sought it. Robberies were common, but generally speaking, t...

01/22/2008 | 194 Hits | 3 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Battle of Minds (part three)

Panic set in as the daggers were pointed at me. Adrenaline can make you do a lot of things you thought weren’t possible. In my case it allowed me to enter the trance-like meditation state that I achieve when performing telekinesis, instantaneously. I was shocked that Krshhh would suddenly want to kill me, telling me that the ’Sixth House’ now believed I was too dangerous to be allowed to live. I made my awareness tiny...

01/21/2008 | 358 Hits | 11 comments | (5 votes) | Read more...

Defining Heaven and Hell: One

For centuries, the inhabitants of Earth have been under the jurisdiction of a select few. However, as human intelligence increased, so did the ‘select few.' But no matter what happened Earth's inhabitants felt the need to be led. Some call it human nature, some may call it laziness, but I for one call it destiny. The human race slowly destabilized themselves and their planet. The alterations between periods of untamable heating and cool...

01/18/2008 | 232 Hits | 3 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...

Project Greg

Project Greg CodyBrinkman       Arthur Wells worked at the "Seeking Heaven Research Laboratory". He was a mid level researcher, until he was recently asked to accept a promotion. His higher-ups asked him to replace a now retired head researcher whom was leading a project called "Project Greg". Arthur was excited to begin work right away, even though he had no idea what"Project Greg" was. It was a Tues...

01/16/2008 | 256 Hits | 4 comments | (2 votes) | Read more...