I failed

Events in my life have conspired to prevent me from completing the goal of fifty thousand words within a month’s time. I am loathe to set the blame on external circumstances, but it is true enough. This here is an excerpt from the CHESTER section, which concerns a zombie’s odyssey. He will interact with Vogina [...]

Vogina: I’m only 10K. Is there hope still? (Been busy)

Vogina Vetter had an entourage like a wedding train trailing her tremendous buttocks the day she was shot. Her blood sprayed them with arterial force that was impressive for such a superficial wound. It was astounding that she was even shot at all, not because she was not the type to [...]

7K Words, and Where Am I Going With This?

In the spaces between worlds, a great darkness stirs. Restless, febrile tendrils probe the pulse of cosmos and feel at the great warm swells of universes like a bandit in the night surveying with fleet fingers the apples of an orchard. They scuttle darkly with endless grace across the bubbles of reality, searching for [...]

A Cinquain

Raw dust
Ravaging land
With stinging breath of earth
Tell me this world wasn’t always…
Desert.

The Burning City

The Time Traveller sat at the bar and watched the city burn through the plate glass window. The snooty establishment was empty, its occupants fled many days before. He had made a martini—shaken, not stirred—and lit up his favorite cheroot. A hard lifetime’s work was finally done, and he basked in the simple pleasures. The [...]

Bebop

…orgone vapor streaming off hot flesh like heat haze world shot in jazz hues of cobalt gunmetal subdued saxophone glint pulse of trashcan rimshot crashing chocolate rollercoaster form swishing thin sheen silk skirt rump rumpus twisting fists threading smoke strata filtering cyanosing disco glints in thin mist of sweat rain from jogging chests to [...]

The Original Oyster House

The hobo sat shrouded in neon light like a dirty Buddha. As patrons entered or left the restaurant, the open door pushed out wafts of fish, clam chowder, and the stale tang of beer. His stomach growled. He watched the people chatter among themselves from his garbage can seat. The rain pelted his battered cap, [...]

Sasha

Sasha sat in the crèche, a sprawl of connectors snaking from her shorn head to an outlet in the wall. She wore mirrorglass lenses swarming with halogen text.  It was a code read-out of the future, specifically that of the SecResCorp Inc. grounds. The spatial-temporal dimensions belonged to an agent in deep cover. The identity [...]

The Bitch Witch

She had many names, which was quite proper for somebody who had lived so long and moved on so often, but we will call her Mab for that is her name now in this particular time and age, Mab the bitch witch everyone loved to hate, the bitch witch everyone depended on for their sad [...]

Deus Ex Machina

She walked in the middle of the road, trying to know her own name.
Her world was slathered with broad strokes, with just enough detail to expose a bare minimum of information. She felt unfinished, like a badly developed photograph, as if, when her story ended, everything else would be sucked into her wake and [...]