Monthly Archives: June 2012
unraveling
there is a desperation in the way she clings to all the things that were the real of those days when remembering what never happened and writing it down seemed to make everyone dance and sing down where everything felt … Continue reading
Material components
Two creatures stood in the dim red-orange glow of the old-style lights casting strange shadows across the nearly-deserted boardwalk. “Sixteen hundred credits. And a half for the knight’s tax,” the merch-monkey hooted, his fuzzed lips peeled back to show steel … Continue reading
The Crash
The crash wiped out everything from the past six months. When the crew discovered the error logs, they could only think of one reasonable solution: they cannibalized the alpha, pulling him out of his connection chair in a fit of … Continue reading
Scars
How long had it been? Eighteen years? He should be in his fifties by now, but age hadn’t touched him in that way. Not physically, at least. With the effects of everything else, there weren’t any lines to define his … Continue reading
Restless Fragment
He awoke on the operating table, strapped down masked surgeons quietly murmuring their own language as the blue white lights bore down on him. The air smelled of antiseptic and blood. He opened his mouth to scream, but the anaesthesiologist … Continue reading