Summer FY 01 - Survival Camping

#14 of coming of age book 1 another submission for the summer adventure contest, this time it's a camping trip that teaches the indolent kits a little about survival in the wilderness. thank you to harry for his helpful editing and commentary!

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Breaking Through

And on this day, she 'gan to move. And on this day, earth trembled. For on this day, both earth and sky, And stars, themselves, remembered. For music spoke, And music sang, And music doth remembered, That secret song, That secret heart, That...

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Isolation-Excerpt 17-Asphalt

Even at 100 miles an hour I could feel how much the car was having to fight to pull itself through the heat. The air was so humid that I was leaving a vapor trail and there was steam coming off the black tar of the road. The ride itself was rather...

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Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 13-The Immune

"at least he's dead", i said, "no one could survive what i dished out and even if he did the destruction of the lab would have vaporized him." 'what you do?", he asked. "used a suit of x5 powered assault armor to rip him in half", i said.

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Old Home, Part 2

He was sure there was some more formal name, but that's what people called it--a town that had survived a meteor impact, and dug in tight, despite itself.

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Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 7-Speculation

When we made it back to the lifeguard tower, we were greeted by Marco and Matt as they opened the gate for us. Chy pulled the Ford into the parking garage and killed the engine as the rest of us stepped out. "Take that stuff into Sarah", I said,...

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Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 4- This Hell Sure Looks Like Paradise

"martin decided to use the people he was surviving in the lab with as targets to zero his 20mm long range rifle.

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Pandemic-Day 48 11:08AM 1/9/2023-Chapter 18-Engine Swap Day 2

Will cameron, an 11 year delta force vet and his brother, 11 year old rafael, a simple suburban kid, survive the cross country journey to silverton, texas? or will they become six's latest victims? the next morning i actually managed to sleep in.

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Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 8-DJ Skyline

Alcatraz and I loaded up with Mike early the next morning to make our way to the radio station. The sky was a dull gray with the sunlight just barely coming through it. Almost everyone inside the tower's fences was still asleep and snoring was clearly...

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Surviving the Impossible

Then i might just survive to see another day! i finally have a way to repay you for that day. but you will be very different than you used to be. thank you. my old friend. "we've got a live one here!" consciousness slowly began to return to me.

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Damp Sand (Otherwise Untitled)

The ferret's two-way radio crackled with a silence that drowned out the patter of his blood soaking into the hot sand.

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Bottom Dweller

Still, i survive. the gurgling of my stomach is deafening. sharp pangs of hunger feel like an implosion in the pit of my abdomen, and if i don't fill the perpetual void soon, i think i'm going to fold in half.

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