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February 6, 2018
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 […]
February 5, 2018
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 […]
February 4, 2018
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 […]
February 3, 2018
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 […]
Epilogue Two: The View Ahead
He couldn’t stay long but it was nice to have a place to rest for a while. Of course, his name wasn’t Timothy Fleming here. Today, he was an American student spending a few months in the Slovenian capital. He had changed the color of his hair and grown a beard. He’d purchased a cane […]
Immortal in Ice
William Shaw wanted to be alone, which is why he had settled in Lapland for a time. Unfortunately, history once again worked against him. The Nazis invaded as part of their offensive against the Soviets. He escaped into the icy wilderness rather be captured. No one could know his secret. He couldn’t really die, not […]
February 2, 2018
Trapped Between Dark and Darker
In a mysterious floating cloud city, eight-year-old Landon and his friend Ana were trapped in a roomful of inter-dimensional portals by a smoke dragon. When the dragon’s snout broke open a door from the outside, it bumped into the boy, knocking both he and the girl through a gateway into the unknown. “Landon!” Ana cried […]
