Tag Archive | flash fiction
Shadowrun: And Now We Are Here….
I jammed a finger in my ear to block out the sounds of the PCH. The long distance charges on the pay phone ate at my patience. What I heard made it worse. “Listen kid, this is just the way it is,” said the guttural voice on the other end. “But I can help,” […]
Perimeter
Karla stretched her legs. Every step she took sent small spasms of pain through her joints. She felt every cramp through out her body as tense muscles sought release from hours spent withing the confines of power armor. The constant threat of attack just made it worse. Endless days on the perimeter watching a tidal […]
Mass Effect/AEC-ANN News: Ancient Recording Awes Audiences
From: Alliance News Entertainment Desk September 10, 2197 Ancient Song Awes Audiences By Joan Calder TAYSERI WARD,THE CITADEL- The asari singer Jiala Janios powerful performance of a recently translated song from the Lengk archives found in the Ybarra Cluster (see New Pre-Prothean Culture Discovered) brought the assembled audience to their feet. The 50,000 strong audience […]
We Are Orcs
Tweet of the Day: Nine Adorable Pets in Space Illustrated She answered the insult with a swift stroke of her sword. The severed head left a bloody smear in the fresh snow. Gasha planted a foot on the prince’s corpse and bellowed to others, “Orc women are smart because orcs are smart. Orc […]
Home Just in Time for Xmas Eve
Tweet of the Day: Bad Life Decisions: Mary Robinette Kowal Reads Theodore Beale. Sexily. ——- They weaved through the throng of last minute Christmas shoppers their hands tightly clasp. Tina talked non-stop, about the weather, holidays parties, and gifts. She listened to every word, hung on every sigh and laugh. The only thing that […]
Holidays….
Tweet of the Day: Technology Will Save Our Future ——– She gave her pulse rifle the once over. It was one of those things a soldier did during “dead” time, the space between shooting and being shot at. Intermittent lights flashed though the bunker firing slits. It wasn’t the fireworks of her youth spent underfoot […]
Wizard’s World War (s.4)- Dispatch 4: The Ship of Fools
Tweet of the Day: SF Obscure: Alien Nation ——- Season 1, 2 & 3 – Season 4 Premiere – Dispatch 3 – Dispatch 5 ——- On a barge on the river Ífingr A single moment crystallized the madness of our mission to sever the alliance between the giants and our enemies. Thousands of baying, braying, […]
Adventurer! Enough with the Running
Tweet of the Day: On Writing – Finding One’s Voice ——– Goddammit run! And ran the Adventurer did, and ran some more, and kept with the running with an horde of burning skeletons at their back. The empty innards of said skeletons were lit by dark flames. Smoke poured out of their eternal […]
Adventurer! Master of Shadows
Tweet of the Day: September’s Recommended Reads ——- The Adventurer pressed deeper into the cave complex. Where the hell is he? The answer came by way of a maddening cackle at the end of the long tunnel. The space opened up into a gallery of smooth rock walls. Broken pieces of stalactites littered […]
Adventurer!: Goblin Hunt
Tweet of the Day: The first-person essay boom: top editors on why confessional writing matters ——- The cave entranced opened like the dark maw of a hungry beast. Pretty dark in there and I don’t want to switch my shield for a torch so….okay time for a light spell. The Adventurer muttered a […]
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