It gazes out from beneath milky lids, glancing left, then right. It has a ganglion of its own, lurking a little way behind it, a separate entity from the other eye, from the rest of the body, from the legs and the modified frontleg claws and the tail and, above it all, the Director.
The Director [...]
The Emperor needs his tea brewed in a particular way.
He is most insistent on this, and of course as a god the very existence of our nation depends on appeasing him.
And so the Korandoricandium was constructed. No, I don’t know what it means, neither does anyone else. The man who built it went mad soon [...]
Adam stood at the urinal, swaying drunkenly. This was a mistake, he knew it. He still wasn’t ready, still had sweaty palms when approaching women, still felt like he was cheating on Karen.
They had divorced three years ago now, but it still felt like it was too soon to move on. She obviously didn’t – [...]
The humans didn’t know it, but the way the gods decided the fates of humanity was spuriously simple. But then, they were spurious beings by nature, desiring only entertainment and excess. Still, they guarded their secret closely, for many felt that if the humans ever discovered the truth, they would probably climb the great mountain [...]
The choking darkness of her mind surrounded her and she could see nothing beyond four feet. She knew that beyond it was day, knew that joy waited outside, and yet no matter how far she walked or ran, she always stumbled, could never escape the haze. Despair overwhelmed her.
But she was proud. She would net [...]
So gotta get fit gotta get ready get ready for life lose all this flab all this fat it’s just weighing me down pulling me down pressurizing my heart that’s a word isn’t it? Pressurize? I think I heard the president use it once so it must be get fit get better get up get [...]
The last time I saw my mother was fifteen years ago. She was paragliding. Many said that this was not the situation in which a seventy five year old woman should be placing herself, and to be totally honest I agreed. Still, the mad old bat insisted on it.
It was a bright and breezy June [...]
There are several things that an adventurer should always carry. The first and most important one is rope.
Rope is flexible, it can be anything from a life-saving measure, something with which to restrain an opponent, even an improvised weapon – a garrotte to strangle your enemies, for example.
Here’s one thing rope isn’t, though: it’s not [...]
The boy sat before an ocean of squared paper. His tongue stuck out the side of his mouth in the silent exam hall, growing cold in the musty air. He lowered his pen and made marks upon the surface, long strokes that swiftly shrank into illegibility. He was not perturbed – he continued, made more [...]
Eegad, I’m sorry for yesterday guys – no excuses at this end, I just forgot it was a monday as I have a week of holiday this week. I’ll make it up with a special Saturday flash
July 14th, 1877
Rebus ‘Monkeysaw’ Reynolds hacked his way through the deep jungles Kunjiquanistan, desperately trying to [...]