Horfie, the Selective Service Elf (By Avoozl)
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...
Protection (By 3timer)
Greg walked down the road, bundled against the freezing wind. It was blowing directly in his face, because of course it was. That much was expected. Things were always against him. Not just the wind. Seems like...
The Deadliest Sin (By Avoozl)
" **The Deadliest Sin"** **by Terry Echoes** 1 Jamie LeBrau hadn't been to church since he was 15. Social studies was far from being his favorite class, and his teacher, Mrs. Wimbledon, a middle-aged woman with Marge Simpson hair, was a huge fan of...
A Quiet Evening with Sorin and Bryan
Reclining precariously in his low slung camp chair, the two back legs digging into the denuded soil, Sorin looked out across the clearing and over the trees around his remote cabin, deep in the wooded foot hills of the brisk, Appalachian mountains. At...
What Comes After the Rapture
What comes after Rapture? Steve shook his head in disappointment and stepped over a corpse as he entered his favorite bar. He waved to the bunny at the bar, "Hey Michael, my usual. And what happened to Stephen? Weren't you just bragging it'd been...
End of an Era
What happened to us? We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea. A single...
Rainy Day
Delilah looked through her fogging windshield, resigned, pulling over with what was left of the dying motor onto the shoulder of the lonely interstate. The beat up Toyota, with its old, cracked, faux leather seats, missing volume knob on the well loved...
Just What You Do
They really needed to get the lighting fixed in here. Only the dull red glow of the exit sign. Not that it mattered; I could climb these stairs in my sleep. Which step creaked. Just where to reach for the bar and shove open the door. My foot didn't...
The Scientific Inquirer, Article 1
_The Scientific Inquirer_ **Revolutionary Treatment for Rodents Found?** Published: September 17th, 2020 In this day and age, many major illnesses are but a memory of a distant past. What we suffer from are but trifles to such horrid plagues as...
A Lay in the Park
A Lay in the Park Nicholas stood on the top most tier of the playscape pretending to captain his ship as several of his friends ran about him miming the hoisting of sails. The park about him was a sea, and the peoples drifting through on their...
Joads Grapes
It lived on a world that would come to be called Joad. Its home was one of the many metal spirals that twisted through the planet's crust like a rooty scaffold. We shall call it Violet, for like its Willy Wonkian namesake, it was a large purplish-blue...
Give a Dog a Bone...
A dark wolf with amber eyes sat on the bed in a tiny room, a stainless steel toilet across from him with a sink at the tank. Beside him was a neatly folded orange pants and shirt, a white undershirt, and a pair of barely white tighty whities. The neat...