On The Now pt 15
The copters are with us and the Thought Police are not far behind, scaling just a few floors below us. Lights shine intense, even though the sun is sufficient…
L. L. Burrows
15 stories written on Ficly, 2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
On The Now pt 14
Waking back up, I’m being grabbed by Jacob, pulled up over the edge and the sun is now hotter than ever before. I pull myself to my feet, proud and nervous…
On The Now pt 13
Omniscience doesn’t seem out of the question at the moment. Sheets of water layer themselves on top of their dead brethren. I turn for a look at the far side…
On The Now pt 12
More grass. I’m moving through the woods as temperate rain pours down. The day is drenched as am I. I move and move through the woods until I come to a lake…
On The Now pt 11
I think back to earlier writings of mine and others. Ancient names like Voltaire, Socrates, Durkheim, Marx, and Jesus Christ all filter back to me. The goal…
On The Now pt 10
I swing my gaze upward for a moment, blinded by the auburn Sun, dazzling yet dying. I’m only a mere 11 stories from the top. They’re closing in, but only on…
On The Now pt 9
I’m at the corner of the tower now. Around it I hear Jacob climbing at one mph faster than myself. He’s ahead now. The copters are finally arrived, yet…
On The Now pt 8
And then they’ll bring up the x-ray sights and see me chasing through the hall, but already will they be positioned inside the building and I’ll be gone. And…
On The Now pt 7
Just now, a fire zips past my left shoulder. Good Jesus, they’re shooting at us now! I climb to my left. And up now. I fiddle with the wall to position myself…
On The Now pt 6
Of course knowledge is more than just memories and dreams and experiences. What about people? Others. In their own right, they are a genre of knowledge. People…
On The Now pt 5
The fields that consumed my mind were often projected into reality. I would sit for hours at my desk, toiling at the white paper when suddenly, a field as…
On The Now pt 4
And in dreams was a curious thought. Asleep, we see what awake we cannot. I had been dreaming of grass. A plain thought. Plain, but sweeping and consuming. I…
On The Now pt 3
The lawyers with their papers. The taxi drivers with their grit. The doctors with their powers. The mothers with their complaints. The children with their awe…
On the Now pt 2
The sunrise had been the first time I had seen the tower. Now so close and so existent, I couldn’t help but be careful when I moved my hands and feet along it…
On The Now pt 1
And so we climbed. Climbing was not new to us, nor us new to the wall. A tower, quite literally made of ivory was the only escape. I glanced down. A few dozen…