Under the Bed
**Under The Bed** Daylight. Even that managed to worm its way through cracks in the overhead canopy of tangled vines and thick leaves, giving rise to growing levels of steamy fog and the morning calls of hidden wildlife. It was another day in another...
The New World
**The New World** **Chapter 1: The new world.** "Set condition green! System charge is at 95%, all passengers stand by for transport. T-minus, 5 minutes!" The operators went through the motions like they did with every transport, but they still...
Sky Mistress
**Sky Mistress** Nobody was really quite sure when it all started, all we're sure of is the current state of affairs. Our small country is plagued from within, its population being preyed on by monsters. If it isn't werewolves in the forests, trolls...
Balloonasaur
**Balloonasaur** Product testing is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you just can't get the market research you might desire without live field testing. When you're in the more specialized markets of the world, this can be harder than one might...
A Balloonie's Tale
**A Balloonie's Tale** Nobody really knows how it all started, but we certainly know how it ended. The old adage of the world ending not with a bang but a whimper couldn't have been more wrong. The world ended with a bang alright, several of them....
Survivors 2
"Are you homesick? Do you have a longing to see the place where you came from? Thousands of people have already made the trip, so why not YOU? When the cities recreation centre's just can't cut it, and you've been to the warm sandy beaches for the...
Survivors
Survivors. 2020 was the year it all started. The beginning of the end, at least for the majority of us. There we were, on a temperate little ball of rock, water, and atmosphere, floating around our Sun for untold centuries. People had begun to suspect...
Scorch
Have you ever had one of those moments where you just barely catch something out of the corner of your eye? You see a glimmer of movement, or a shape, or even a colour. Sometimes it just turns out to be something you've caught in your peripheral...
Garret's Journey
**Garret's Journey** A light breeze blew through the valley, or what used to be a valley in any case. These days it was more like a desert, with pockets of dead earth, ash, and dust strewn everywhere you looked. There were no trees, there were no...
Squeak Show
"Lights! Camera! Action!" The collected voices of the studio audience whooped out their joy and cheered as the house lights came on, revealing a large circular stage in the centre of stadium seating. Over ten thousand individuals were on their feet,...
Distended Reality
**Distended Reality** Creaking and squeaking filled the mid-day air, as the local community of giants partook in one of their many daily activities. The shine of light on over-stretched hides could be seen reflecting for kilometres, as megamacro...
Buck
**Buck.** Putting up mega structures was a bit like working with toy blocks. Provided you were 60 or so metres tall anyways, and were handy with a plasma welder. Fortunately there were such individuals in the world, and they were all to happy to...