Narcissus Upon the Face of Time

The Time Traveller let himself into the darkened room.
The Time Traveller, lying in bed, saw the man enter.
The Time Traveller walked to the bed and with cool hands reached  down, to warm naked flesh.
The Time Traveller reached up onto cool skin, undid jean buttons and grasped cock with hotslick precome.
The Time Traveller, through the back [...]

I am a Map Maker, and So Are You

Reality exists, as we can plainly see.
It is just there, a waiting vessel for our proclivities. It is a realm without rules save those of natural ones governed by molecular behavior en masse. An intricate webwork of electromagnetic conversation, we spring squalling from the loam of flesh into a gallery of light and sound and [...]

How I Crack Myself Up!

One morning he came home from work looking ten years older, with faded scars where there were none last night, but his skewed grin was just the same, if not wilder. He burst through the door and grabbed her arms, and through softly stinking breath said, “Put on a pot for me, dear?” Then he [...]

Spaceman Blues: A Love Song

The Count of Monte Cristo, or do I dare say, The Stars My Destination, loosely provides the framework of this entertaining romp of Pynchean scope, with riffs of Bradbury waxing lyrical amid surreal strains of M. John Harrison in which Wendell Apogee undergoes a transformation in his quest to find where Manuel, his lover, has [...]

Dream Time

In the shrunken hours of night the phone rang off its hook and with sopping lips I answered, “Yes?” I wiped the juices that ran down my jowls with the back of my hand and cradled the receiver against my shoulder, murmuring the squirming form next to me with my other hand. Like thin syrup [...]

The Cat Lady

Under the heavy curtain of the sky, two girls joyfully bound unto the empty park. The bright green of chlorophyll dominates the scene, and is draped by gray veils of rain. As they play wetly amid bright plastic and iron rails, we remain dry under a shelter’s roof and watch the lightning play over their [...]