Jar Jar's Bizarre Adventure - Exodus - Chapter 1
Everything you've been told was a lie. Well, damn near everything. For one thing, my people don't talk like Sy Snootles after an all-night spice jag. Here's the thing about totalitarian dictatorial empires: _They_control the _information_. It's a big...
My Awkward "Hopes and Dreams" Lyrics
Hopes and dreams, Born from stars. Light that carries From afar. Do days gone by Bring a tear Or a glimmer To your eye? I know you'd Hold my hand If you'd only Understand Life was never ours to take It's a gift...
My Immortal
**"My Immortal"** **By Terry Echoes** "What is taking you so long?" I was strapped to the table, the cold, hard surface jabbing into my shoulder blades. Taut, wide straps pinned down my bare green arms and chest, as well as my hips, offering me...
Cul-de-Sac
"Cul-de-Sac" By Terry Echoes Zeke Pulanski admired himself in the mirror. Yeah. This Halloween, he was good enough to eat. He flexed a bicep and kissed it, then rolled his abdomen. Truth be told, it wasn't much in the way of a six-pack, but Zeke's...
Put Me in the Trash
" **Put Me in the Trash"** **by Terry Echoes** There were a few nice new products on sale at Klyder's Department Store that quarter, but the lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise was not one of them. Clyde Igglesby wanted to retch at the...
Long Live the Witch
" **Long Live the Witch"** **By Terry Echoes** The wind died down, as if it, too, was listening to Hannah's impassioned words. "This is an old woman who needs our help! Sometimes the biggest danger someone can face isn't horrific and sudden...
Horfie, the Selective Service Elf
March 13, 1883. London, De-Militarized Zone. Santa Claus looked at his coal-powered wrist watch. It was just after midnight. A new day was on the horizon, but a grim, sooty future lay ahead. He preemptively nocked an arrow to his bow and let fly a...
Wienners' FACTION - English Retranslation
FACTION, FACTION: It's an abstraction; enigmatic FACTION LIFE. FACTION LIFE: Mysterious, strange, and odd, and confusing us. When I reveal what is behind, my mind perceives unknown material. It's a FACTION, FACTION versus what is...
2021-08-30 Writing in 3D Exercise
"Gronk." The mighty bellow would be music to her ears. The studly song she imagined in her slumber brought to mind dreams of machismo and good wrasslin' arms. Oh, how she longed to hear that voice, but who it would belong to was a mystery for the ages....
2021-08-16 Writing in 3D Exercise
124 was spiteful. 125 was simply trying too hard. 123 was dedication. Nobody had time to sit around coding 123 functions. That would be like thousands of lines of code, and that would mean millions of key presses and countless breaks to go to the...
2021-08-09 Writing in 3D Exercise
It was still early in the waning summer, yet I could see my breath in the night air. The loamy smell of the forest comforted me, and yet, here I was, two past midnight, directionless in these woods. I looked up, but could only glimpse a few tiny stars...
Madness, Starving, Hysterical
So someone bangs the front door in and starts having a shriek fit with her husband. This is unbecoming behavior, and reflects poorly on the entire household since you can probably the next block up the street. So I say, "Shut _up_." Not knowing I...