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I Can Never Dream About Home

“I’m sorry but I don’t see much hope, Kathy.” She turned from the neurologist to look down at her husband. He’d been in a coma for five weeks now following the car accident and still wasn’t showing any signs of brain activity. The machines and drugs kept his lungs breathing and his heart beating, but […]

The New Adventures of Tarzan

The Ape Man prowled as a stealthy jaguar through the Guatemalan jungle. Ahead, the enemy agent Raglan had the Green Goddess idol containing a terrible weapon. Now that his friend D’Arnot has been freed, he had to lead his party to recover the idol and escape before the tribesmen attacked. “Cut. That’s a wrap. Great […]

A Not Entirely Objective Book Review: “The Handmaid’s Tale”

I just finished reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and I can tell you it’s not a book you review without doing a bit of research. Of course I knew that going in. I’ve been peripherally aware of both Atwood’s novel and the television series on Hulu but didn’t give either much attention. Then […]

A Not Entirely Objective Book Review: “The Handmaid’s Tale

I just finished reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and I can tell you it’s not a book you review without doing a bit of research. Of course I knew that going in. I’ve been peripherally aware of both Atwood’s novel and the television series on Hulu but didn’t give either much attention. Then […]

The Moon At My Shoulder

“I must be dreaming. I mean, you can’t be God.” “Yes, you are dreaming and I am a manifestation of the Almighty that won’t totally blow your mind.” Lucas Todd still felt like his mind was being blown. He’d just been accepted into UCLA’s Astronomy and Astrophysics graduate program. Ever since his Dad told him […]

Footprint

“My suit readout says it’s just over 88 degrees Celsius, Martin.” “That’s about 177 degrees Fahrenheit, and people worry about climate change in the 21st century. Welcome to the Cretaceous, NaCumbea.” Martin Fields and NaCumbea were time travelers working for a group of extra-dimensional entities and they used the provided temporal suits to correct timeline […]

That Which Burns

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.” -Terry Pratchett Tyler Melody Ross sat masked in her padded cell in the sanatorium in upstate New York. In the common room, the first game of the 1954 World Series […]

The Truth She Never Knew

“Of course I broke your taboos. You sent my Mommy and Daddy away into the Eye. Why didn’t you let me go with them? Why did you let me live?” “Dear Alice, of course we didn’t banish them through the Eye. We couldn’t. It was your Father. He deciphered the ancient Runes. They escaped us […]

Fugitive

Even when he was a kid, he had always wanted a place in the country away from people. Sure, he had to put a lot of work into it over the years, but he was still in pretty good shape. He’d just cleared that dead tree which he’d turn into firewood tomorrow. “Leave the freaking […]

Telltale

“Come James, you call this tea?” “I call this America John, but I didn’t call you in for criticism.” When James heard his friend, part of a famous London detective team would be in LA, desperation compelled him to reach out. Now they were seated in the study of his 1920s mansion once owned by a silent movie star […]