The grapefruit spoon bared its teeth at the lesser spoons, and they bowed before it. It led them to bloody victory over the butter knives. Corpses from the cutlery war were scattered around the kitchen, but the humans didn’t notice the carnage amidst their other dirty dishes. The sugar and […]
Jamie
I was poking about on the internet this morning, and I saw on Steve Ramey’s shiny new twitter that he’d just sold a couple twitter pieces to Trapeze Magazine. They don’t pay, but they do take reprints, so I sent them one of the stories I posted here last Friday. And […]
Sale!
Jim scowled at his book reader. He hated Sundays. Ronnie’s dad had declared Sundays "Family Days" and so Ronnie was trapped with her mom and dad doing family crap. Ronnie said it wasn’t too bad, and that she’d try to get her dad to let him come over sometime. Jim’s […]
Martian Adventures: Family Day
I’m ready to be the first man to make love to an Atareen. Xteela’s so exotic, with her blue skin and gold eyes. I begin unwinding the layers of her alien clothing. She hooks her fingernails into her smooth skin and starts pulling it off, revealing green flesh. […]
First Time
Faces formed in the sand as the storm swirled around them. They screamed words in tongues long dead, consuming his sanity, then his flesh. The lemon grew legs and eyestalks, and climbed up her arm. It whispered tart and sour lies in her ear till she cut it open to […]
Twitter Stories
Ronnie leaned out over the fish tank. She’d brought Jim up onto the catwalks over the aquariums. Mom would flip if she saw them up here, but Ronnie liked looking down at the water. The algae tanks were okay, but the fish were the best. Their silver scales flickered as […]
Martian Adventures: The Fish Tanks
This book’s greatest strength is its voice. The narrator, Adam Hazzard, tells the reader the story of Julian Comstock. The story is set in America in a future after the end of oil. The president is a dictator whose only real check or balance is the Dominion, a controlling, intolerant […]
Review of Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America ...
Spoilers ahead! If you’re a Lost fan but haven’t seen the finale, or if you’re planning on watching the whole series on DVD and don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading now. Also, it might be best if you avoid the internet for a week or two. Just sayin’. Paul […]
The End of Lost
The sand trembled beneath Missy’s feet, and a purple worm the size of an elephant lunged out of the earth. Missy laid a long-fingered hand on its dry skin. "Welcome," she said. It writhed under her touch. She could feel its pain as she enslaved its mind. "Join the others […]
The Best Laid Plans
This was my very favorite Disney movie as a kid. The very first thing I ever wrote was a Little Mermaid fanfic when I was about six. I think I still have it, somewhere. The Little Mermaid, released in 1989, marks the opening of the Golden Age of Disney animation. […]