She smiled as she look out on the rotating crowd.
It was a sea of faces, all behind masks, spinning and mingling and separating in a hypnotic dance. She found she could not pick out an individual face amongst the mass, could not follow a single person, for though each costume and dancer was unique, the [...]
The hardened bark would not give to his stern axe blows. He frowned and took out his handkerchief, wiping the sweat from his blow. This was a tough old tree, alright.
The rest of this forest had fallen quickly to his blade, clearing farmland for the villages all around. It was what the guild had hired [...]
Tock.
Lenny frowned.
Tock. Tock. Tock.
He couldn’t put a finger on it, but something was missing.
Tock.
But what could it be?
Tock. Tock.
He looked at himself. Legs and arms and feet and hands. There was nothing he could perceive wrong with his body. He did a quick mental check of his surroundings – all was as it should be. [...]
He pulled back the trigger quickly, but did not tug on it. The rifle reported and the bullet burst out, a gout of smoke erupting behind it, the odour of gunsmoke filling the air.
The bullet ripped through at supersonic speeds and struck a gong. The gong sounded loudly, a dent torn into its front. The [...]
The beings came in a night. One day the world was as it was, the same strife, the same wars fought over and over, the same crimes committed again and again, different faces on the same people.
And then they came. They did not have a saucer, or a cigar shaped tube, just a ball of [...]
Stupid car stupid stupid stupid what do you think you’re doing stupid car in front no not a car not the cars fault its the driver bet its a woman sitting there all pretty probably doing her makeup in the mirror not watching the road doing thirty past the cancellation THE CANCELLATION WAS A MINUTE [...]
On the osmosis of houses
The life cycle of the common house is one that has been a mystery to many experts in the field of edificizoology for decades, one that constantly becomes obscured by the symbiotic beings known as ‘builders’.
For the first time, however, a young rogue scientist in Manchester feels he may finally have [...]
His feet beat at the earth, crunching dry soil and flinging it behind him. He is running so fast that he feels like it is the world that is spinning beneath his feet rather than he who moves along its surface. The wind tangles its fingers into his hair, tousling it, pushing it back from [...]
The deadlines have gone. They have swept through and annihalated my weekend, and now I have more work ahead of me. But no more of the foul beasts lurk on the horizon, and I am starting to rebuild.
I build my house with four walls, alcohol, video games, coffee, writing. I construct a roof out of [...]
He watches the raindrops striking the pond surface.
They are like human lives to him, these raindrops. They fall and strike and cause ripples that fade quickly, disappearing into the mass of the pool. They are brief, fleeting, transient.
Transient, but not devoid of consequence, he realises. As he stares at the pool he sees ripples striking [...]