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. […]
Dramatic tension on The Island. Oceanic 815 has so few survivors left. In a twilight chase scene, our camera follows Kate and (I can’t make out the other face) from the beach, over a stream, and through tall vegetation that covers hills. When they reach the other side of the hill, they discover that the […]
We are in some kind of municipal building in Perth. A school? An airport? A swarm of people are gathered in one room. The room is slightly crowded. The first zombie converts; no one knows how. He starts to bite others. People try to force their way out of the room; the heroes try to […]
We are in a building that has a distinctly institutional feel; it may as well be a high school. Instead, this is our office building: rows of lockers lining the corridors, the numbered doors… We settle in for work today but some new crew has been brought in. They are all artificially young guys in […]
Chris Noth draws the Great Monsters of Post-Modern Literature. Actually, they’re just “of 20th Century Literature”. Whitley Streiber’s aliens, Lovecraft’s creatures… that sort of thing. The shaded pencil drawings all come to life.
Interruptions. Lounging in my grey robe in a room that is not my brother’s room in a house that is not my parent’s house. Too much sleep? Not enough? The bathroom connects to this room and to the hallway. It makes me nervous. A knock at the door and swift entry. A slight, angular brunette […]