James Pyles's Blog, page 219
January 31, 2017
Left Alone
Joey was softly crying. His Mommy forgot him, forgot to pick him up at the Boys and Girls Club where he went everyday after school. Now everyone was gone and he was alone. It was cold and wet out and he was scared. Where was his Mommy and why didn’t she come to get him? […]
The Dossier
Ex-KGB Chief Oleg Erovinkin was found dead in the back of his black Lexus just blocks from the Kremlin. The cause of death had not been revealed, but it was under mysterious circumstances. Thousands of kilometers away, MI6 Agent Christopher Steele bought a “burner” phone and made a call to a number less than a […][image error]
January 30, 2017
The Dream Master
In spite of his exhaustion, Ian Mohr had to battle the demon Morpheus, god of sleep and dreams, every night to enter his realm. There were whole nights when the demon was successful in denying Ian entrance, but eventually the man’s sheer fatigue would defeat the sleep god. As long as Ian entered the dream […]
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane
“Jimmy! Get off of the roof! You’ll fall!” Eight-year-old Jimmy Parker had climbed out of the loft window onto the shingled roof and stood poised to fly, dressed in his complete “Superman” costume his Mom and Dad gave him for his birthday. “I’ll be okay, Mom. Don’t worry.” Jimmy thought Mom always worried too much. […]
Meeting the Future Mrs. Shaw
William Shaw was stepping out of the pub on Northumberland Street near the Charing Cross railway station when he quite literally collided with his next wife. He’d been looking at his pocket watch and calculating how much time he had left to catch his train, and she had been rearranging the parcels she was carrying […]
January 29, 2017
Two Lost Children
The miniature yacht and skiff pulled floaters as it drifted up channel. The yacht’s deck was covered with torn tarps from the storm it weathered the night before. The current carried the pair up river by midday. They were noticed by a lone Ranger, who called it in to the Park Service. A small police […]
January 28, 2017
Their Only Playground
The elementary school on Urban Street had been abandoned ever since the fire gutted it. The city finally budgeted the money to tear it down. Twenty-four boys and girls lost their lives in that fire. The building’s destruction might bring some closure to their families. Frank Hurley had retired as Fire Chief last year. He […]
January 27, 2017
Rediscovering Serenity
It had been years subjectively since Tamara had been to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, years since she’d let herself relax and stare at the serene Koi pond. For the last ten years, she struggled, on the run, hiding from Slaver Gangs, scrounging for food, making alliances, and often being betrayed. Then […]
January 26, 2017
Man Out of Time
When the pilot and his wife ran from my shadowy, fluid form, leavingme standing in the NASA control center in the Mojave Desert, they placed a lit road flare just outside the door to keepme from following them. They knewI was a being out of time, a man trapped in an endless limbo only they […]
January 25, 2017
Traveling the Road Back
William Shaw was pulling the modified 1902 Cadillac Runabout behind his SUV to an abandoned country road where he would be unobserved. He’d purchased it from an elderly widow, her husband’s pride and joy, but the old man lacked stamina and finances to restore this beauty. Shaw unloaded the Cadillac at his destination. Appropriately costumed, […]
