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Welcome to Providence (part 5)

equinox – the last scion (part 5) We, I mean me and the Hat, walked for what seemed like days. The desert gave way to a road. It was paved but no cars ever seemed to travel along it. We walked for three days and didn’t see anything. I knew I should be getting hungry [...]

With Great Power

“Hurry up Cartouche, you’re late again. Even Rothul beat you here tonight and he had to escape from prison to do it.” Rothul waves from the end of the table in his orange prison fatigues. Holding a fruity drink, his dark sunglasses hide his albino-pink and frankly unnerving stare. He almost smiles, indicating he’s in [...]

Forsaken

The sky was darkened by steel-grey clouds, running toward the horizon’s setting sun, as if to extinguish its light on this scene of urban justice. The scaffold, hastily erected seemed eerily at peace in this riotous sky, blood red near the edges like a vein opening and flowing into an nearby gutter. Angry flashes of [...]

Dead Already

My doctor told me I had cancer. And it was inoperable. I didn’t hear anything else he said for about five minutes. When I could hear again. He said the best I could do was to make the next six months as rich as possible because I would not see another summer. I thanked him. [...]

A Private, Little War

“Agent Smallpox is down. I repeat, Agent Smallpox is down.” “Check your data, have your human centers report in. We have heard this before, it is possible that you’re wrong.” Commander Rhinovirus stalked inside the cells of the throat of the head of the CDC. He could not believe what he was hearing. First polio, [...]

The Arrivals – Tales of The New Earth (3)

Chen Zhan woke this morning like she had for over twenty years, quietly, slowly and with great care. Her back muscles were stiff from sleeping on the smooth and cold marble floor of the office building. She was feeling every bit of forty this morning and was beginning to feel despair forming deep in her [...]

Relego Relegi Relectum

It was the end of social media and business technology software. We promised it would change the world in a way no other social media tool ever could. We believed it could change the future. Yes, you heard it right. This technology could see the past and with some degree of accuracy predict the future. [...]

The Great White Spot

From space, it looked like a ball of blue and brown; blue oceans swirled with windblown whitecaps and the occasional tiny island could be found, but most were scoured clean by the Last Storm. You couldn’t see much of the surface anymore because of the cloud cover. The white polar ice caps were tiny buttons [...]

Hail the Spirit Army

Ptah laughed. The sun rose over what looked like the city of Cairo. The early morning light cleared the horizon and was bright and sharp, stinging the eyes with its searing, illuminating essence. The duskiness of night, suddenly evaporated in a single moment, stark and striking. The land had an alien presence as if it [...]

Care-lessness

It started in the news as a meme. We didn’t understand how contagious a meme could be. Face-biting was how it started. A single news article began the disease. Our inter-connectedness spread the meme. We all were amused it in the beginning. Some evening news fare, something shocking, titillating to take our minds off our [...]