He has taken a new job in what must be the smallest town in ruralest Vermont. Was it programming? Maybe, but it definitely has something to do with the police. Being the dispatcher for the police in this town. Maybe even the town’s sole police officer. The joke in the state is that the town’s […]
There is a single hair growing out of the whites of my eye. It’s a short, thick, coarse black hair. Like a beard’s whisker two days after the razor. The hair is bothersome, irritating. Every blink is like passing a kidney stone, every sidelong glance a slash to the wrist. Fine pink lines radiate out […]
A race against the clock. A battle against a violent fiend. The villain is badly hurt. But his mutations have given him an uncanny strength. It is difficult to say if he is rejuvenating, but he is definitely growing. Taller. Thicker. Strong? He is visibly, viscerally deformed. Snarling. He pounds down steel doors. Smashes through […]
The Empire State Building is on fire. Engulfed in flames. Beautiful, symmetric, dancing, diaphanous Hollywood flames. Chemical flames. Tongues of flames. Flames that want to lick the inky night sky. They fire fighters have all come out to fight the fire. Ladders. They are stacking ladders up the side of the building, consecutively up the […]
Post-apocalyptic? Under a subterranean sky? Civilizations crumble; infrastructures crumble. You band together with whomever is left, with whomever you are close to when it all went down. Folks from work; the odds were in favor of it being them. Holed up somewhere, we all load up–stuff backpacks full of provisions: food, rope, matches, green metal […]
I’m at… work? No, not work. The floors are concrete but this is an Eastern Shore-style crab house. Concrete floors and rows upon rows of long red picnic tables covered in newspaper. But I may as well be at work. I’m surrounded by co-workers, all of us toting our laptops. We take our seats around […]
I am at a rock gym in … Maine? It has an unusual layout and setup. Rather than a series of routes set up along walls, you rotate between routes that are setup in “alleys” or “lanes”. The traditional wall is replaced with what is (in essence) a tunnel, and each route quickly ascends up […]
After a long and humiliating training, my “brother” Jedi and myself are ready for our first assignments. Our mission? To pilot and defend a re-purposed, Corellian-equivalent of a school bus, taking it and its Rebel contents from one secret encampment to another. The Rebellion is young and the Empire still spreading its tentacles – Order […]
The whole “Extended Family” (plus “the new favorites”) is here for the occasion. The whole old school SMCM crew. It’s a pot luck and everyone has pulled put all the stops. There’s a little bit of everything: spicy beef tips, a herbed crusty bread, an Indian dish with lots of curry… I’ve dropped off my […]
I’ve been kidnapped by a bunch of 80s-style coke dealers. They seem nice enough at first (mostly because I don’t realize that they’re drug dealers) as we drive around in their white Bronco. We talk about things. Skiing and snow-plowing. The drive is a long one. One of the guys starts talking about his meat […]