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"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 27

19 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

They flip open the hatch and descend the stairs, The steps are an untreated, roughly hewn wood, though appearing surprisingly solid and unblemished considered they must have sat here for years in the dark, unused. At the bottom lies a solid concrete...

Miron; Mariupol's Baby (Part 2)

9 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments rah

If you missed Part 1 please go back and read it here first - https://www.publish0x.com/rah/miron-mariupols-baby-part-1-xevmmzd *** Then, just about at the same time as I had completely filled my space, something happened and everything was different....

The War on Sirius B - Part 4 (Fiction)

7 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

“The war on Sirius B is over when I say it’s over! I’d rather wipe out the entire blue-coded genetic imprint than sit on the Grand Council and ignore who’s really in charge of the interplanetary game,” shouted Admiral DeverX upon his departure from G...

"The Doom Statues" - chapter 26

6 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Though they are unable to reach Kidwell Monday, he is on premises Tuesday for what feels like, many of them agree, the most productive day since they’ve arrived at Otherwise. In some sort of zone ever since they returned from Stokely, in fa...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 25

6 Jun 2024 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Within fifteen minutes, they are rolling down the long, diagonal hill into Stokely, gently curving at the bottom where it runs into the state route. Just past the intersection, in the row of buildings on the left, Fairlawn Diner sits at the end, H.L...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 24

5 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

“I don’t know…it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” Clay’s telling whomever he’s speaking to on the phone, feet propped on a knotted pine coffee table in the main house’s library, “the closest town? I forget, it’s like…Spinning Rock or some shit. Aren...

The Sacred Temple (Original Poetry)

31 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

We are on the cusp of giving away the very essence of what it means to be human. We think chips, computers, and blockchain technology are powerful, forgetting that we are THE technology. BTW, did you know that blockchain mimics our DNA? Your heart an...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 23

27 May 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  “No…fucking…way!” Emily insists, “No way! There’s just no fucking way that this was here before!” “It does seem…rather unlikely,” Tony agrees with a chuckle, rubbing his chin as he stares down at the water’s greenish black surface. “Well it had to...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 22

25 May 2024 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

“So you’re in with the ones starting that school back up, eh?” the old man says to them, then nods before they’ve even responded, “okay, we heard they was doin’ somethin with that property, but we didn’t know what.” After cresting one final steep hi...

"The Doom Statues" - chapter 21

19 May 2024 2 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

“Okay, so what kind of tree is that?” Clay challenges, pointing to a gnarled specimen sticking up just a few feet from the creek’s middle. “Those are what’s known as bald cypress trees,” Tom explains, without breaking stride in his furious...