scarecrows bleed stray and strife, holes of black and white,full of infinite energy, pains and hertz, seeing right.trains, ovens, showers--static-- shocked to building bridges and ditches, wireless transmissions,messages across time and space, nuclear fusion and fission,atoms, dirty, thermonuclear--equilibrium-- PC and radios coarse into veins, cancer rains with Joan of Arc,battlefield after battlefield, passing over what …
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Social Anxiety
"Wait, wait, wait!" Reese yelled. He needlessly waved, but managed to holster his weapon on his hip. He had a moment of panic when the movement caused the deranged man to flinch.It was a reaction. Both knew, yet the realizations didn't stop the actions. Not in the situation of a bank robbery, with hostages, and …
The Brittle Nature of Reflections and Dreams
Sirius jolted awake. His glass armor finished pieced itself back together and delivered a resuscitating burst of reviving electricity from its stored reserves. Sirius, caught upside down, wiggled violently. He was disoriented, severely. Hanging--the rush of blood, the residual energy given off by his armor, the heat, the blunt force trauma--Sirius fell unconscious. Chunks of …
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Orbit, Orbit, Orbit
"So, I didn't understand any of that," Cyrus said.He'd been patient, he'd trusted his best friend, he'd sat like a statue to listen to every detail, and--most importantly--he'd suffered through every test with his dignity. Okay, maybe not dignity. Cyrus lost that when he had to stand through a thousand pictures zoomed in on his …
The Neon Road to Lands Unknown
Clint turned the nobs, dotted the buttons for every red warning, and double checked the seals of his space faring one-seater. The engines sputtered dead, and while his wings yawed, it served nothing more than changing his direction. He was drifting through empty space. Silent and alone. His ship out of fuel and his directions …
Corrosion
Dead and buried, trapped in the ground. No, trapped under a garbage heap of corpses. My own kind. My brethren, my family, the future of prosperity taken away by greed and rage.We were peace. We might not have been human, only machine. But, we looked the part. We played the part. And we were on …
Stop Resisting
Just listen to the beat. It helped me concentrate. Helped me get into the zone. I had everyone of my tools and felt the weight of each one strapped to my belt. I couldn't draw my gone because the two hands on the steering wheel were the only realiable things keeping me and my partner …
Period Pieces
"You idiot!" Vincent yelled as he decked his broken with a hardy jab. Edgar dropped to his backside, bouncing slightly on the listing platform. The back of his head bumped the steel pipes. His brother had held back tremendously. He knew that if Vincent truly wanted to hurt him, Edgar wouldn't have maintained his head …
After the end of the world…
When the singularity was created, there was peace. There wasn't any fighting. No war. No trouble. Just an understanding that we needed to keep moving towards a prosperous future. But, of course, like Sigma theorized and thought, that was all temporary. He tried to warn others, tried to build a group so they would have …
Abandon all hope, those who enter.
The door creaked open. I lumbered my 1980s space suit through the doorway and found artificial gravity. I was blinded by the light. I could tell right off that I was still inside the underground bunker. My suit could tell the levels of elements in the open air, it could measure and filter any foreign …
Just Buckle Down 