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Void Ships
The Void Dreadnought "Orogosian" powered out of terran orbit at half light speed. The Strange engines would kick in as the ship intersected Jupiter's orbit a few hours hence. Isabella, Queen of the New Spain colonies and heir to the throne of All-HomeWorld stood in her quarters awaiting her confessor. Father Egretian came most highly recommended ( Read more... ) -
The Last Supper
Dining on a meal consisting of a series of pastes, Alexi Denisovetch spends the last evening of the world in the observation bubble. Stacia had asked how much the diamond used to create the perfectly clear walls had cost. She was so good with math. If the world had not run down like a clock she would have a made a lovely mathematician. Alexi looked ( Read more... ) -
Hustling
Rufus Wainwright plays on your stereo for hours and hours. Looping his voice over and over, never reaching climax, trapped in frustrated, nigh terminal, loveless limbo. You smell of cheap clove cigarettes and shake when you sleep. "Smoke the days away into the evenings" whining over us in the darkening grey of a spring afternoon. "My mother died in ( Read more... ) -
The Yesterday in The Other Room
Living in the house was, a best, perilous. One afternoon the wife had gone down to the basement and found herself in the midst of the trojan war. It had taken considerable effort to remove grecian blood from the carpet. The husband had adjusted somewhat well, always knocking before entering rooms. It was a habit that saved his life on on occasion ( Read more... ) -
The Empire of the Wolf
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Remember
After she left him, after the fight and the fury had faded from his eyes, heart and memory. After he stopped crying himself to sleep and checking her e-mail using a stolen password. After her scent had faded from the sheets and her perfume had dried to a crust in it's bottle on the second shelf in the medicine cabinet. After friends stopped ( Read more... ) -
Passing into Jerusalem
The brothers came from three parts of the night world. Dreaming under the same stars they began the long passage into Jerusalem. First, the marketplace. The blind merchants selling Challa and pork pies, the woman crying out for them to take her baby with them. The eldest brother, wrapped in the shroud from his deathbed, spoke for all of them in ( Read more... )