The waiting was over. After forty years of dedicated service on Earth the mothership had finally returned to take him home again.
He did not remember it well. It was soft, damp, and warm. There was nothing to worry about there.
Category Archives: Story
The Mothership
June 30, 2010 – 10:15 am
Life on the Plane of Astral Semantics
June 28, 2010 – 10:30 am
The ancient form of magic performed by telling stories, weaving oaths and such became more advanced as a generation of self-taught youths discovered the Plane of Astral Semantics.
Their bodies in the Primate Material Plane held in trances, these wizards battled and became enamored in the silver-lit ether of their parallel universe. In anger they [...]
Twin bodies
June 26, 2010 – 3:05 pm
There has never been in outer space this phenomenon seen once or twice on Earth: two perfect bodies purified of irregularity circling each other, never increasing or decreasing in distance from each other.
A Sea Captain
June 15, 2010 – 11:06 pm
for Ethan Jucovy
“As you know, when I was your age I was already out on the open sea fighting pirates and scoundrels.”
The cool night breezed through the candle-lit cabana. The captain of the mercenary ironclad People’s Hammer began to fill his pipe. He wore a silver medal on his civilian jacket. His [...]
The Fantasy
April 30, 2010 – 10:37 am
Marcel had had a fantasy based on concepts from three books he had been reading and an offhand remark that Phillipe didn’t remember.
“The language games of the Martians and the cave dwellers became life-forms that existed primarily in the quivering extra dimensions of the super-string loops. They battled for supremacy over the evolution of [...]
The Barbershop
April 29, 2010 – 8:51 pm
Marcel planted himself firmly outside of the barbershop.
“I’ve never gone to the barber. I won’t know what to do.”
“Just go in and ask for a haircut,” advised Phillipe.
“But how will they know how to cut it? Will I have to wait for a seat to be open? how much will it cost? [...]
The Teeth
April 29, 2010 – 8:37 pm
Marcel, who hated himself utterly because (for example, the previous night) he had noticed that his lower teeth were growing crooked, told his friend Phillipe about it.
“And that means the bones holding them will weaken. And then they could fall out! And what then?”
Phillipe nodded sagely. Neutrality would end things quicker.
J.L.B. to K: On Knowledge
April 21, 2010 – 10:11 pm
Dear K,
My informants report that a supernatural con artist has scammed and embarrassed you. Pity.
You are not the first to be hooked and hauled on the bait of knowledge, of course. Every Eden has its revelatory snake. Scholarship into the corpus of such legends suggests that the quintessential mistake is not acquisition [...]
The Recession
April 7, 2010 – 11:41 pm
By 2060, the number of authentic human beings revealing their hopes, dreams, ambitions, and creativity on the internet had skyrocketed. And as communication technology improved, engagement with what marketing gurus identified as “the flock of butterflies” became indispensable for commercial success. Industrial psychologists determined that income was highly correlated with capacity to recognize [...]
A PC’s Complacency Upon Leveling Up
March 27, 2010 – 7:20 pm
Earlheim regretted that his Endurance score was magically enhanced by his own Wishes. It would have been easier to fall unconscious rather than endure the pain he was in. He grimly fired his grappling hook into the face of his gloating opponent. He then retracted the hook back into his cybernetic arm. [...]
