You’re fleeing the monster. Run through the city. You never see it, but you can hear it. Hear its growl. Hear the rumble of its footsteps. You hide behind buildings. Dodging. Evading. Never more than a step ahead. Sounds of destruction and carnage. But you’re running out of places to run, to hide. You make […]
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You are overrun by them. An infestation of a grotesque mouse-octopus chimera. Little black oily vermin; naked tails and little furry rumps that coalesce into a mass of writhing black tentacles. Traps can’t hold them. And as they swarm, you try to stomp them out. Black ichor runs from their wounds. But, once cut in […]
Homebrew number fifteen, and the third evolution on what’s becoming my signature beer, Honestatis.
You are sitting in a treehouse, trying to plan a trip, the two of you. You believed that you had narrowed down the destination and all you had left was to book it. But things got complicated. New suggestions came in. People kept appearing with new ideas. You couldn’t possibly do them all. Maybe over […]
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Homebrew #14; the 11th as Tilde Gravitywerks, and my fifth original recipe. Acer Square is an assertive American porter with a touch of sweetness from maple syrup.
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Homebrew session #13 was an experiment on all fronts. How to create a novel take an oft-loved-yet-also-oft-derided seasonal variety? I’m talking of course about the Halloween pumpkin beer, but figured why not add a little chili heat? Thus was born Flaming Hessian, the fourth Tilde Gravitywerks original:
The gunfire draws nearer. The bombs thump; you feel them in your chest. Everywhere is debris. Twisted rebar, candy wrapper scraps, shreds of clothing, popcorn. Everyone has been ushered into the bunker. The bunker is a movie theater — an underground movie theater. The trick is to make sure that the film keeps going, and […]