Thaddeus Howze's Blog, page 13
April 1, 2013
Cryptic (1)
“Mr. Engram, I am happy to find you made your way down to see us. I am sorry about your accommodations. So difficult to get mausoleums really free of that stench of death of which you are far too familiar with, I’m sure.” I hate being underground. The fact that so much of my work [...]
March 31, 2013
30 Cubed – 30 short stories, 30 characters, 30 days
For the last couple of years, I have participated in a variety of writing challenges to spur my creativity (and quietly drive my wife to distraction). My favorite three were 30 Short Stories in 30 Days or NaShoStoMo, NaNoWriMo, and the 30 Character Challenge. Since I haven’t seen any announcements (and I have a backlog of [...]
Traits
Setting the fire inside the warehouse seemed like such a good idea at the time. Paulo 7 hated working for Master Zie-Mac-Ken. The sentient was completely reprehensible. More cruel than the average Cyric, Zie-Mac-Ken took pleasure in abusing every Human he held psychic dominion over. Humanity established an empire of fifty worlds for a thousand [...]
March 28, 2013
Strong Winds Here
a tale of Mythic Qin The sun rose over Wu Bay province and the rice fields were full and green, terraces overflowing with bounty. Only the encroaching thunderstorm on the opposite horizon spoke of an ominous change by midday. A farmer sat on a rock, his wide brimmed hat tipped forward blocking the rising sun. [...]
Strong Wind Here
a tale of Mythic Qin The sun rose over Wu Bay province and the rice fields were full and green, terraces overflowing with bounty. Only the encroaching thunderstorm on the opposite horizon spoke of an ominous change by midday. A farmer sat on a rock, his wide brimmed hat tipped forward blocking the rising sun. [...]
March 26, 2013
Blood Orange
The storm was the worst I’d ever seen. The sea swelled up on all sides, as if the entire ocean had come alive with a taste for man. After five hours, a smasher, the largest wave, larger than any of us knew was possible, rose up from the port side and flipped the Red Hawk [...]
March 24, 2013
Übermensch
a tale of hayward’s reach I found her behind our lines in a field not too far from a downed Messerschmidt Me 262. We had pushed the Germans back out of Paris and had retaken the countryside in early September. I thought she was a local who had been injured when the plane crashed into her house, [...]
March 11, 2013
The Last Divide
The Internet spawned many an unusual technology but none as strange as the Death-Web; a way to allow users to communicate after death with notations, salutations, benedictions and predictions pre-programmed before a person died; a message-in-a-bottle through Time. Its early adopters were people who knew their impeding time drew near and wanted to leave data-rich [...]
The Digital Divide
The Internet spawned many an unusual technology but none as strange as the Death-Web; a way to allow users to communicate after death with notations, salutations, benedictions and predictions pre-programmed before a person died; a message-in-a-bottle through Time. Its early adopters were people who knew their impeding time drew near and wanted to leave data-rich [...]
March 8, 2013
Pax Cyridian
a tale of the Twilight Continuum Hanging from the side of a building, cloaked in shadow, I could see the lights from the police roachsters sweeping the warehouse district and knew that we could not stay here long. I tried to visualize a route that would take me back to the city core but from [...]
