Thaddeus Howze's Blog, page 21
February 21, 2012
Spleen Rupturing Time
How could she leave me here? She knows I hate the sun. It so hot, I think my stuffing is melting. It's been hours. I think she's forgotten me. Feel myself getting weaker. What is that thing coming toward me? Shoo. Go away. I am a mighty voodoo doll and I will make your heart [...]
February 17, 2012
The Gentle Art
Sitting in his personal tower, the Rex looked out over his wife's domain and for a moment, smiled. A smile filled with sharp teeth and massive jaws, his wife's favorite feature. The scent of wild life was rich and abundant and for a moment, he felt the urge to leap from the tower and stalk a [...]
HYDE – Chapter 3 – Measure of a Man
"I want him dead." The flamboyantly dressed man wearing the sharkskin suit has new teeth, implants to replace his own which were rotting away. Being a Russian immigrant to Hub City in the late eighties when the city was still new, Dodonovich had established himself as one of the first of a new group of [...]
February 14, 2012
Creche
"Don't you die on me!" Her breathing was shallow and slowed. I wasn't sure whether the patch would hold. The round had gone clean through but the bleeding was terrible. We had already lost our heavy exo-armor on the infiltration, and were down to our stealth suits, a black under-armor with a low radiation profile and [...]
February 12, 2012
The Arrivals: Tales of The New Earth (2)
Summer is Coming Waiting was always the hardest part. Marcus found a way to keep busy between shooting wayward tumblers and the occasional vampire-leaf fly by. He cleaned the solar cells on the side of the Rhino, maximizing the effective sunshine. Living on the road has given us an eye for the little things. I picked [...]
The Arrivals: Tales of The New Earth – Summer is Coming
Waiting was always the hardest part. Marcus found a way to keep busy between shooting wayward tumblers and the occasional vampire-leaf fly by. He cleaned the solar cells on the side of the Rhino, maximizing the effective sunshine. Living on the road has given us an eye for the little things. I picked off two more [...]
February 11, 2012
The Arrivals – Tales of The New Earth (1)
Approaching the Pentagon on foot, we realized nothing was like it was supposed to be. None of the sentry positions were active. They had been overrun, large root structures ripping through the armored bunkers from beneath. No sign of the men or women who normally sat there watching for approaching Arrivals. We found their weapons [...]
The Arrivals – Tales of The New Earth
Approaching the Pentagon on foot, we realized nothing was like it was supposed to be. None of the sentry positions were active. They had been overrun, large root structures ripping through the armored bunkers from beneath. No sign of the men or women who normally sat there watching for approaching Arrivals. We found their weapons [...]
February 9, 2012
HYDE – Dinner and a Show
Hyde seethes, rage feeds his power. He lopes though the forests forty miles south of Hub City. Hyde runs as fast as a small car pushing off trees, slashing their bark with his claws and nails, half swinging, half running minutes after twilight. His clothing hangs in rags, savage tears in his flesh from the [...]
February 8, 2012
HYDE – The Doctor is In
"Mr. Hyde I presume?" A quiet and subtle voice, barely heard above the howling wind outside the hundred and second floor of Grayson Tower, the tallest building in the center of Hub City. "I suppose I will have to have those claw marks buffed out of the front of my building." The speaker has his [...]
