James Pyles's Blog, page 162
March 15, 2018
A Great Time to Be Alive
Jason Fields sat in the Common Area of Lunar Base Five (LB5) sipping his coffee. He got there early enough to get a table by one of the windows. He liked looking out at the rest of the base and the wild and empty Moonscape beyond. He was pleased that the construction of Dome Three […]
March 14, 2018
Buster’s Mystery
Buster slipped his head out of the partly open library doors when he heard the front door open. Maybe the Man had finally come home. The automations regularly refilled his food and water bowls and cleaned the litter box, but he missed the Man’s warm lap, his soft words, and the touch of his hands […]
The Lyrid Event
A small group of amateur astronomers had gathered at Ted’s farm outside Garden Valley to photograph the Lyrid meteor shower that year. It was late and just about everyone had gone back to Boise, taking their cameras and telescopes with them. Only Ted’s trusty old Nixon was on its tripod still aimed at the heavens. Ted […]
March 13, 2018
The Girl with the Green Eyes
She remembered looking at her reflection in a tidal pool. Her eyes were green, like the color of the seaweed coves. She had dark red hair and her “polka dots” (what Papa called her freckles) punctuated her face like the lakes and ponds in the Verdant Hills to the north. Merilyn dressed in clothes the […]
March 12, 2018
Sparks Ascending
The plane crash! He was falling with flaming debris all around him! Wait! It didn’t hurt and he wasn’t falling. More like he was going someplace important. The debris was glowing but not on fire like he thought. In fact, it wasn’t pieces of the plane. What were all these sparks around him? He caught […]
Koi no Yokan
The sky was a brilliant cyan when she first saw him on the beach. He was staring out at the ocean as if witnessing a tragedy and in spite of her vow of utter celibacy, she experienced an overwhelming sense of Koi no Yokan. Whispering a curse and then immediately regretting it, Merilyn continued her […]
March 11, 2018
Bad Timing
There are always a few cars left overnight in any parking garage. Some had battery trouble and couldn’t be towed before the end of business while others belonged to people who’d have one too many at a local pub. It was a Sunday morning and the gates were shut and locked so no entry and […]
March 10, 2018
Hall of the Mountain Kings
It had been a week since Dani and the Davidson children had encountered the nightmare of the Great Gray God, the one meant to be a trap for them, woven by the demon imp disguised as a black cat named Onyx. Although they were higher in the Dark Hills, which was really a range of mountains, […]
Flight 19
“We should be landing at Treasure Cay Airport in about ten minutes.” Lori couldn’t relax knowing they were flying into weather that was nothing like the forecast. “I’m sure the pilot is competent.” Zach chided his wife on her former career as a Navy combat pilot. She never could relax when flying commercial. “It’s just […]
March 9, 2018
Riddle Me This!
Landon could hear a strange sound from behind and a huge shadow loomed over him. He suddenly whirled to see a hideous apparition instead of his friend the dragon. It was an enormous worm with a mouth like a lamprey eel, full of thousands of razor-sharp teeth and it was getting ready to strike. It’s […]
