Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
Third person, fly-on-the-wall type P.O.V. A Handmaid’s Tale-style near apocalypse. An evangelical Christian school; a real house on the hill sort of thing. No one knows how they’ve kept this thing a secret, this sprawling multi-wing complex. It’s the eve before the unveiling; the board of directors is giving a tour to some media folks […]
This island is full of clones. I have only been stranded here a few days and I have figured this out. On the third day, the island’s figurehead is rounding up all of the residents for a convocation and a feast. As we make our way from the beach toward the meeting place, I see […]
Moving in? A housing inspection. Haven’t we been in this house before? Felt its dangers? Felt its terrors? We wander halls that should be familiar as faces that are familiar but neither quite synchronize with memories lost or found. The carpets beneath our feet are ratty and reek but hold up under a scrutinizing eye. […]
In the bedroom, we watch the news; generals chase down that Revolutionary Homer Guevara. Interviews. Scenes of the troops. Sound of gunfire. The gunfire is so terribly close. The generals are dead and the revolutionaries are coming after us. Perhaps they believe that we are the soliders? The generals? Perhaps it is not the revolutionaries […]
A gorgeously shot historical drama featuring Roy Scheider? An outward naval base is attacked during events leading up to Pearl Harbor. You know instinctively that the attackers must be Japanese but they film features them all as Soviets. They sweep in with their planes and fast attack boats and lay waste to their base. Scheider’s […]
The pirate gangs have a docking system that floats out in the middle of the ocean. The docks themselves are lashed together with rope and various iron brackets; there are warehouses (some of them standing up, some of them sinking down into the water) that hold food and cannon shot, where they unload plunder or […]
A hyperreal MMORPG type setting. Sword-and-sorcery type fantasy. Deep labyrinthine forests and far off dark towers. A race to the finish line. A race to the highest level of the final tower, an epic struggle of mythological proportions awaits. There is a secret key combination, a cheat code to boost your stats, to instantly level. […]
I am the literary advisor to the President of the United States of America. It is not a Cabinet position; it’s more like being a manservant. The pay is adequate and the uniform is the most comfortable suit I’ve ever had the pleasure of wearing but it also is not what I had in mind […]
The outside has grown so large that it has come inside; the inside has expanded to shelter it. The blending brings on a terrible fear. Where has everyone gone? Are they all dead? There are no bodies but neither are there graves nor tenants. The Dog warns me that They come and We must prepare. […]
The attack is coming from the West. An invasion, a violent mass of men and machinery moving across the land, opposite the sun’s path. My commander sends me ahead to warn the next installation. The forts must all be warned. The invasion force is striking so quickly. They are knocking out communications before anything else. […]