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21 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments ArmFarm
It was a late lazy summer afternoon. The heat still shimmered in waving curtains, as though being blown by rhyrhmic controlling wind. Jimmy had gone into his living quarters, sealed the entire system, and cranked up the environmental control to compe...
21 Mar 2021 4 minute read 18 comments rah
I have two articles still forthcoming, but it is Sunday so I thought I’d take a step back and look at something else. About two weeks ago my debut novel was accepted for publishing – which in itself is a success – and I have been reflecting on my jou...
19 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Here the stink is sour and mycelial, a fungal ferment of rotten metalcraft and creamy dripstone. Umin recoils, recalling his not altogether distant captivity in a similar, if dustier oubliette. There is but the faintest light in this ghastly place. ...
17 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
For my eye, no need, still. Light for you though love. It is darker, deeper here than the Middle-below above. From a concealing pocket, somewhere under-gown she pulls something frost-blue and opaque, passing its waxiness to Umin. The stone-thing i...
16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Sepet, with lips pursed, slips like a rusty-hued wraith back into the curtain folds. In a veritable blink, returning with the iron-dry click of numerous weighty keys carried on a ponderous ring. Jewel box diminutive, to granary-key hand-span, a lock...
16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ErickP
Another day has come to pass,Another day that I must last.Is this the last day that I must see?If it is so, then let it go fast.One more sun I wish not to see.Another breath I’d rather not breathe.I do not desire to feel the grass.I simply do not wan...
13 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ErickP
Sea of Laughter.Sea of sorrow.Which one will I seeCome dawn’s light tomorrow?I don’t want to beSwept under in the sea,The mournful sea of sorrow.Let me swim free,Let me float freeIn the laughing sea tomorrow.Sea of Laughter.Hear it laughing.Sea of So...
12 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Thin lips part and resolve from a place nonplussed to one of muted affection. “Dear Pyna...” Sepet sweet Fetch for me, so kindly, Father’s fourth key… The tray-bearer’s brows, thin as his lips, a little, cloud. “As you wish. Allow me this-” Pyna,...
12 Mar 2021 22 minute read 0 comments Something Out Of Nothing
A little insight on this. My favorite DC Comics character was The Red Hood (aka Jason Todd aka Robin #2). DC had been doing these “Year One” graphic novels and they were all pretty nice. I wanted to give this character a true origin story. I had even...
11 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RandomMusings
We shall meet again, in Petersburg, as though we had buried the sun there, and then we shall pronounce for the first time the blessed word with no meaning. In the Soviet night, in the velvet dark, in the black velvet Void, the loved eyes of the bless...
