The Electric Eye
Whenever I look outside my window nowadays, I'm reminded of some lyrics from one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. I think it went something like "and so in the sky...shines the electric eye...soon the natural king...takes earth under his wing."...
My Home of Ice and Fire
**My Home of Ice and Fire** 1315 Seven hundred years ago... Though many of his men continued to grumble and bemoan the wall of white that enveloped and drove the heat out of their bodies, and cut at their faces like knives, and made their bones...
One Thousand Snakes
**One Thousand Snakes** I It always amazes me the elegance and blatant debauchery of fate and its incomprehensible machinations, the way it makes out our lives to be little more than chess pieces, to use that tired cliché. Fate, destiny, God,...
Shadows Dance: Part I
**Shadows Dance** "No. No, this isn't right." But it was right, the evidence was staring Nathan in the face. The thin red fox read the letter again, hardly believing the typed Tahoma-style words. He hoped that reading the...
Gotta Love That Bomber
Gotta Love That Bomber It was the best standoff I had ever been a part of. Ten people were standing behind me with guns drawn, pointed at the heart of one little pus-bag who cringed in the corner of his bathroom, his rodent eyes wide with terror,...
Gifts
**Gifts** Wolf carefully unwrapped the white gauze encircling the top-left portion of his face, keeping a wary eye trained on the little bathroom mirror. It had already been a few weeks after the surgery, but he had kept the bandage on,...
The Battlefield (part B)
**The Battlefield (part B)** 3 The sun was already setting in the west when I got back to the mill. The tanned brown paint of the building was chipping, exposing the grey metal underneath. For some reason, I felt respect for the large building, even...
The Old Man
**The Old Man** "Do not leave me alone." I stared hard at these words, written in decorative cursive that the old man had given to me on a paper that had been torn out of his notepad. I was flabbergasted, knowing full well...
Slick Run, Ep. 3
**Slick Run** III We Love You Dice said to make it look good, and that's exactly what she did. She had snuck into the base like a proper night-crawler, even though she was just a second-degree initiate and running solo. She wore trousers and a...
Like a Cauldron Burning [Chapter One]
**Zootopia: Like a Cauldron Burning** **Chapter one Something about a Truck on Fire** Violet eyes flickered open to a sunlit room. Rays of early morning scarlet caught tiny motes of dust floating lazily in the air like jellyfish, rising and...
A Pocketful of Bombs
A Pocketful of Bombs Well, I really found myself in a pickle this time, salty vinegar juice and all. I was stripped down to my underwear--black briefs, very nice and applicably comfortable on a dry, sunny day such as this--with my hands tightly...
Snowbomb
Snowbomb I looked outside my window; snow had been steadily piling up over the past three days, adding a new inch of white powder every eight hours or so. Beyond the glass it was as white as a forest could get, pure blinding white-out conditions. It...