Void
I wonder if I write random fragments of poetry and words, that something somewhere deep within the crevices of my long forgotten mind will snap and click into…
12:28:37.12pm pt.3
Meneghel leisurely wandered into the marketplace, he had plenty of time. suitcase he was carrying must have weighed at least 60lbs, but to him it felt…
12:28:37.12pm pt.2
Blake walked into the marketplace and glanced around nervously. It was here somewhere, he was sure. His earpiece crackled to life. “Have you found it?” “No…
12:28:37.12pm pt.1
The day was clear as Madam Lohk entered the crowded marketplace. She pushed passed women haggling with vendors, children weaving around stalls and merchants…
Modern Life
Ted found himself increasingly turned off by the responsibilities that came with adulthood. Making rent, paying bills, spending one’s days in servitude to a…
The Last Jihad
“Allah be praised - death to all future infidels. _This video shall serve to be the last images of me prior to my entry into paradise, I having traveled into…
Micra-Explosives
It didn’t take him long to work out that there was a bomb strapped to the underside of his seat. He’d noticed a mess of wires jutting from underneath - a clear…
News of her
I sat on my couch, eating my frozen dinner, and watching the news. There were some riots going on somewhere and the police were getting involved. I swear…
The eternal dud
Dormant, I dwell beneath the dome of stars. My detonator destroyed - damaged I meet my doom amidst devastation. My devisers developed data on their day-star…
Sometimes You Just Can't
“Dude! No!” “What?” “Dude. You Can’t Do That” “Sure I can.” “No, you can’t! A thermonuclear weapon cannot run off with non-state actors!” “Watch me.” “Dude…
When You Have To Go
My little friends, I could have been a contender. Grandpa was a shell in the Great War, and Pappy fell on Hamburg in 1943. I was too young for Korea, I have to…
Trust Me
I sit in the black duffel bag, dying for a breath of fresh air. The darkness is suffocating, and I’ve been in here for what feels like forever. When he pieced…
Icarus: Mission Day 1459, Part II
The slender six-hundred-meter long ship shuddered and protested as the heavier-set interloper approached and took the offensive. “How’d they come up to us so…
Defiance
Two survivors. One laying in a pool of his own blood in the corner, barely breathing. The other crawling slowly across the rubble and gore coating the floor…
A Note To The Bomb Squad
If you are reading this, then I am dead. You will be dead too if you do not do exactly as this note says. Inside a small wooden box you see on the desk to your…
Little Boy
31,000 feet. I am falling. 26,000 feet. In this short space of time everything is peaceful. 12,000 feet. There are no screams. No gunshots. No mortar rounds…
Little Boy Blues
The spy watched as B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292, swung around onto the duty runway, her four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radial engines idling…
Fighting a Lost Battle
Day 203 since nuclear fallout. Diary entry number 148. Time 1:34 PM. Temperature 92 degrees Fahrenheit. Two hundred and three days of wondering has lead me to…
Go!
“Run!” They ran down the abandoned street, the trail of explosions and debris drawing nearer.
94
...94... I broke a sweat. I didn’t know which wire to cut. ...93.... The bomb continued it’s countdown, I had to act. ...92.... I cut the blue wire, the…