The God Maker
“Yes, this one is coming along just fine.” Dr. Thodokaraius slid a lever up the status display. All vitals looked nominal. Overall health was good. Development…
Xod
“Asserting one’s stance on the notion of absolute reality seems to evoke Xod. In humanity’s most severe moments of comfort-greed, the conceptual urge builds a…
Orpheus
He walked on as his strength ebbed from his body. He felt his arms drooping. Scared of dropping what he carried, he fell to his knees. He fought looking over…
Wedding Branches
From the upper floor of the house she looked over the vineyard. She could see rows of chairs and heavy red grapes hanging above the altar. Her dress was in the…
Razbliuto or: The Death of a Scarf
“A fount of tears and blood I spill,” said the demon suddenly one lovely morning, “But love, but love, is meaner still!” “Look here at my scarf,” the angel…
The Tale of the Future.
The cantalope rolled toward a girl. What would she do?She was minding her own buisness, happily gnawing on her frozen stick of joy that her father especially…
The Glade of White Grasses
They called it the Glade of White Grasses. No man knew why it had taken on such a peculiar character. The children loved to go there to play in the summer, to…
The Bright Side of Boxes
“Come on, Pan, there’s got to be some way we can spin this,” cooed the nymph, cradling her friend. “How?” Pandora sobbed. “I’ve ruined everything. Everyone…
From the Deep
A discordant wailing sound filled the air as the priests began to play a gigantic set of pipes that looked as ancient as the rocks themselves, weaving a melody…
Popular misconception.
People say that jealousy is insecurity. nothing further from the truth. Jealousy is the absolute certainty that the person dearest to our hearts does not…
Not As It Was Made
Vaklir of now is not as it was made. The firelings raised volcanoes to boil the sea and when it fell from the sky to cleanse the Cloud Knives of the Zora it…
Nadir of the Highest
The pale oracle dipped her quill into the hollow of her eye socket, loading the nib with blood. She wrote upon the roughly bound parchment laid before her…
The Beginning that Never Was
In the beginning there was everything - not the nothingness, the endless void, but everything - all that was, is, could be - right there, coming together in…
Myth III: Alone
But then the sun died. The sun grew immense in its senility, its dying throes burning the rocks that orbit near it. It swallowed the first two of its subjects…
Myth II: Fading
The moon waited for the sea. Each day, as they waltzed, he always wanted more. But each year, they grew more detached. Each year, they became more distant. The…
What a way to start the day
In the beginning there was darkness. And God said, “Turn on the friggin’ light”. And lo, the friggin’ light was turned on. God separated the darkness from the…
All the Good Ones
“In the beginning there was nothing - only darkness.” No - too clichéd - too obvious. “Valuon, the giant squid, swam slowly through the infinite void.” Better…
Myth
Sea and Moon were lovers once. They were one, moving through the nether, each completing the other, made for each other. Both knew they would be together…