It was first detected at eleven thousand parsecs from the outpost world of Vegan. Just one of several thousand anomalies recorded on the planetary sensors that day. Bored technicians and overworked scientists tracked its progress in a haphazard fashion, until it became apparent that it was moving in a direct path towards the planet. Still, it had been approa...
This story was initially rejected for violence, so I have rewritten a few passages to clear the bar. Like a few of my other stories, this one clawed and scratched at the inside of my skull, getting in the way of other stories until I acquiesced to let it out. I've configured it as a Weird Pulp style for brevity's sake. There is no graphic sex here. It just w...
The City of the Sun God was crumbling. Once, the city of glass had been maintained by the same Atlantean technology that had helped stabilize the Savage Lands. But while that verdant jungle had become self-sustaining, the city had not. Many of its people had left for one local tribe or another. More still had been killed for disloyalty, speaking blasphemy ag...
*You will never see tomorrow's sunrise or yesterday's night* (Thanks for Frontma for pushing out the latest three chapters which had to be a bear) (Writer's Warning: Tons of Sex) (Yes, this tale is supposed to be somewhat humorous and outrageous too. While not always comedic, I'd like to think it is mostly a good-natured romp.) CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE My...
*Birds are made beautiful by their plumage but divine by their flight* (Once more, thank you frontma for editing) (Yes, this tale is supposed to be somewhat humorous and outrageous too. While not always comedic I'd like to think it is mostly a good-natured romp.) Sharing Umbrellas Tuesday: My schedule which the Chancellor had been set in stone, had me in...
The shuttle from the orbital station to the meeting place extended sleek, filament wings, snap hardened them with a sweep of smart materials, and then began to drift down into the upper atmosphere of Charon. Heat began to gather on the wings -- flames licking around them, sweeping along the edges, crawling like vines. Lou watched them grow and wondered what...
Note to Reader: The following tale is centred on the Al-Nablusi family, who are Palestinian-Americans, and it follows them on a journey through love, sex, spirituality, tradition versus modernity. The father Faris Al-Nablusi, whose family originate from Nablus in the West Bank but he was born in Haifa, is a professor of Cognitive and Neuroscience at Berkeley...
Be careful what you wish for - Goethe 3/18/2036 10:30 AM: Intake T. J. "Zeus" Jackson heard the iron door slammed shut behind him. So it had come to this. Her word against his word. As his lawyer Saul Rabinowitz put it, he had been found guilty of "humping while black." They had both been shitfaced that night. The girl even more than him. Hell, everybody...
As promised, here is the final chapter of How to Tame Your Tikbalang. I truly enjoyed writing this story and am a bit sad to see it end, but, like all good things, it has to come to a close. Thank you so much for bearing with the long intervals between chapters and for reading my story. Thank you for taking joy in my native lore and for being with me on th...
"So, shit for brains," asked Jessamy Beech, sitting back in her chair, "how come you think you're innocent?" The inn that she'd chosen for her and Hamnavoe to spend the night had once been an outdoor training centre run by the Royal Air Force. Tucked away down a side street in the small Scottish town of Grantown On Spey, it had survived the strike that had...