We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains. -Li Bai, trans. by Sam Hamill The last living thing on Earth sat beneath the bloated red sun, using the energy of the dim rays to turn to the raw elements of its habitat into useful tools for its continued existence. DNA coded for RNA which was turned into proteins, much as it had for b...
NOTE: if you are deeply religious, this may offend you. It’s my warped Flavius retelling of Adam and Eve. Mr. Rosenberg is Adam, and Rabbi Wiesel is Eve. R. * * * * * God had just created man, and He was pleased with what He saw. "Go forth, and name the animals," commanded the Almighty. "Name them what? I don’t have time to name your animals! I got to dr...
The call was less than that, being no more than a yearning he was reluctant to send out even as he was sure they would heed it. All the horses that had been in Quagari had been appropriated by the Zidjma with what little wildlife and livestock there had been. Nothing but the overly large blood sucking insects that droned continuously in the dry heat, irritat...
His name is Thomas, not Tommy or Tom but Thomas. He was never allowed out to play with the other kids, has never seen another kid, and has never been to school or to church. Never has he been outside the mansion. There is no need; the mansion has a library on the scale of any large university. Only, he cannot read and can only look at the books that have pic...
Cicero is a "wide open" town just west of Chicago. Legend has it that Al Capone had one of his headquarters there and his mob descendants have a number of heavy duty strip joints there to this day. Since Cicero was safely out of the reach of prudish Old Man Daley, vice still thrives there. Every election year the Cops bust the strip joints for the TV cameras...
The names and addresses have been changed to protect reputations of the descendants. ***** 37 Orange Plank Road A..., North Carolina The LORD's Day June 1, 1862 Mrs. Constance W... Hazel Park E..., Virginia Dear Connie, I fear for us all in this awful war. We are much agitated at the news from Tennessee concerning the Yankee victory at Shiloh. The casua...
It was late, past midnight when I awoke. I was alone in the great bed, and silver moonlight flooded in through the bedroom windows. I shook my head to clear it, and wondered where the girls were. I got out of bed and wandered through the silent house. As I approached the great room I could begin to hear their voices. At last I could see them together in the...
Kaguya felt this was definitely not how it should of ended. The Ōtsutsuki was suppose to triumph over these...these remnants. Glancing to her left she saw almost in slow motion a dark haired teen who had Indra's chakra within him. His eyes the Sharingan in his right and Rinnegan in his left flared with power and cool focus as his left hand stretched out towa...
All of the people and names included are fictitious. None of these people existed either now or in 1862. ***** At an estate sale in 2012 I purchased a writing desk that I planned to restore. Locked in one of the drawers I found these personal letters. With some research I was able to identify some corroborating documents in the National Archives which I w...
Lara Croft sat in the large, plush chair, warming herself by the roaring fire. She grasped the large red book close to her chest as she nestled into a comfortable position. She looked around the room, admiring her vast array of artifacts she had obtained on many an adventure, realizing that she yearned more for the adventure, than she did for the artifacts....