“The gods sometimes are slow in their work. They’re on a different clock than us mortals.” Bit O’Luck Lounge. Figures a mick would toss in the big O and apostrophe,…
Category: <span>Short story</span>
The door shut behind the President, with a solid clang. He had the large visiting room to himself—except for the two Secret Service agents who stood on either side of…
Its journey through the cold, black, liquid vastness lasted ten centuries. The time attenuator kept time’s passage the same for both it and the homeworld. Mankind, its creator, patiently waited…
What is death but a dream within a dream. —James Clavell Is the existence of life a divine miracle or merely a pathetic mistake? —John Quinn The absolute, or Kelvin,…
I was destroyed yet made complete; darkness descended upon my life as a great light; wretched things did become great treasures; cool, healing touches burned and wounded; I wept for…
Gyril was bored. Unbearably so. He didn’t feel like reading, not even his antique books, which if not for the ultrafilt unit would’ve now been covered with a coat of…
Monday 11:31 P.M. Gabe wore an analog watch. He’d paid twenty bucks for it at a garage sale ten years ago, and it worked perfectly fine, as far as he…
“The insistence on absolute good requires absolute tyranny.” —Cyril Teeter, Utopia: Implementation and Maintenance Upon entering the room, the quisitor smiled, almost sympathetically, thought 439, and took a chair across…
“O cruel needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, the struggle was…
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.” William O. Douglas The four of…