The Girls
Simplicity doesn’t visit me as often as I like. She spends her time singing and dancing off in a field. Usually her counterpoint ends in a perfect cadence…
Falling Apart Versus Fell
Jenkins broke another clipboard yesterday. Someone threw a mouse and took out an ‘Exit’ sign. I think I heard Mallowitz crying in her cubicle on Friday. They…
The Rise of Death
I have spent eons liberating souls from the mortal coil, carrying their posthumous forms from one life to the other. I have never received any thanks for the…
Chaos Before the Calm
Chaos. Babies whimper, children call out, women cry, men shout orders. Crowds make their way in through the gates in the stone walls. Women and children swarm…
Family
The wonderful animal family of the House of Goonzalez: There’s the magpie uncles, Left, Right, Up, Down, & Turn who never get much farther than the nest. The…
There's One In Every Club
The mass of bodies pulsed to the driving rhythm. Strobes slashed through the darkness and basslines pounded until all complex emotion was purged and only the…
Reoccurring Natural Disaster
The quiet storm rages to life. Desires are pursued with the unmitigated ferocity of Mother Nature’s fury. With no more warning than from a strike of lightning…
Two and Three
We move together, Panic and Chaos, the second and third of the children. We lead the scouts, the assasins, the ones that cause people opposed to us to be dead…
Life Goals
Sweet suede Moses, there is nothing left for us in this rubble! The air has turned spicy and the grass is failing below our broken toes. Why on earth would ten…
Peace At Last
I can’t let them turn Earth into potential drowned in sleep. My name’s Mack. It fits a lot of eras. Just like my duds - boots, black pants, white shirt, black…
A Rift in the System
“Come on! We have fresh input!” barked the Commander. She quickly scanned the premises, then began to feverishly punch coordinates into the motherboard. “My…
For the Emperor
The sound of gunfire rang through the temple of the Emperor. Through the din trooper Fitzgerald could make out the high pitched whine of lasguns, as well as…
Ancient Hastuur...
Ancient Hastuur had basked in the heat of the fire until he heard the Mouth of Abaddon eulogizing to his honour guard. 10,000 years in a coffin of chains …
The Mouth of Abaddon...Pt.2
He turned and stalked back towards the scorched earth of the small encampment. His black armour shining weirdly in the weak sun, the chased gold Crux…
Children
Be care free Sweet pea. Complete My insanity And marry me. Let’s start a family Of chaos and calamity-- Little walking sins With molten eyes And double chins…
The Mouth of Abaddon...
The sky roiled above him. Clouds black, and pregnant with the threat of snow. He raised his featureless face - carved and branded with an eight pointed star …
Family, Chaos, and Realizations
With a nod and a worried look, Gefel from swing shift sat at the adjacent com station. Within a minute, Largo from night shift was to my left, taking a data…
Common Sense Fails Again
My common sense kept telling me, Don’t do anything drastic, today just can’t handle a huge change. Aw, c’mon, temptation suavely said, _what’s the harm in…
Kathy Makes a Pronouncement
Dusting the black toner from my fingers onto the back of the intern’s shirt, I emerged to the main work area, the happy maze of cubicles. Kathy was beside…
Entropy
There was only one reason she could think of to use this much gasoline, and the fear took her over the edge. Even her gag was soaked in it. “You know... It’s…