The Fire Without. (Part 2)
They move at near light-speed, because they are not limited by linear dimensions. i told him about the mindless, tentacled creatures that reach out through the rift and into our world to probe and steal whatever they can wrap themselves around.
680 Sphynx Kitten
Save Point: Sphynx Kitten Somewhere Near Exmoor, 1983 I have acquired a kitten, a catling, a baby cat, but it turns out it is actually a sphynx. We go travelling in the deep places, in the desert, in the brightness of the sun at noon, and and...
100 In The Previous Episode of Sethkyllya
Cut Scene: In The Previous Episode Of Sythkyllya The traveller, Sethkill, has come to the South American nation-state of Azatlan in an attempt to find his missing girlfriend Keselt and determine how exactly his estranged half-brother is involved in...
750 Green Like Sekhmet
Save Point: Green Like Sekhmet In The Lower Arctic Somewhere on the Trans-Siberian express- "Oh, hey cats. You don't look well. In fact you look kind of - well, greenish, to be precise. Like that wall-painting of Sekhmet in the temple in...
840 On Movie Night
Save Point: On Movie Night Cleos New Couch (Chew Marks by Niphur) Tonight is movie night and so they are watching 'Overture', an underappreciated cult film that somehow nonetheless managed to attract the acting skills of Leonardo DeCaprio, despite...
500 In The Previous Episode of Sythkyllya
Cut Scene: In The Previous Episode Of Sythkyllya Immortality is a long business, and when you live forever, the world becomes something like a game. Cleo and Terrowne play house in various corners of the earth, walking back and forth and up and...
681 Gratuitous Tentacles
Save Point: Gratuitous Tentacles Somewhere On Exmoor, August, 1983 They lie prone just behind the rim of the slope for a few seconds, then Terrowne dares to raise his head for a swift fraction of a second, just to get a glimpse. "Holy hell, look at...
998 The Escapement
Terrowne pushes, and cleo labours with ferocious muscle, to overcome failures in the linear actuators that allow the walking fish to move about.
902 The Kamikaze Fish
Save Point: The Kamikaze Fish Whenuapai Airbase, Auckland The Kamikaze Fish is a racing hydroplane flyer in the style of the novel 'Orbital Resonance', which is why it's far more fun to own than just some light aircraft of the sort that crashes...
999 The End of the Way
Final Cut Scene: The End Of The Way Aftertime At the end of time, beyond life, beyond even death on arrival, they find themselves walking across the green places. The slow stream meanders, as always, just as it should be. Strange and beautiful...
502 The Old New World
Save Point: The Old New World Somewhere In North America, 1500's One of her earliest memories is of playing, literally, with the bronze keys of the clavichord and the skull to keep her company. The skull is a great friend and likes to listen to...
395 The Epitaph Of The Dragon
Ascension: The Epitaph of The Dragon Beautiful eerie softlight of deep time falls the rain on the bare rock my sorrows the sun the bones of the creatures far below crumbled stone marks forever the fall a second sun on the last day the fire...