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...
What A Well-Made Bomb Can Do
What a Well Made Bomb Can Do "Hey kid, wanna make an easy buck?" I saw him standing there just out of the light, in the cold, musty shade of a dilapidated Laundromat. He was a big snowshoe hare, his fur mottled like an abstract painting with brown,...
The Fuse to My Bomb
The Fuse to My Bomb I knew he was insane, even before my friends told me. Maybe that was what made me attracted to him, the fact that he was more twisted than a crazy-straw. We hopped over the fence and quickly crossed the park, as silent as a pair...
For a Case of Beer
Desert. Black Desert. He remembered there used to be a band by that name not too long ago. Hard rock, it was. Not quite breaching the heavy metal scene, but certainly rough enough to make the room shake and leave you with a particularly catchy...
Outpost
**Outpost** Fox was angry. He had been watching old video tapes and security records for the past six hours. Twenty minutes into the study his legs developed a cramp, so he stood up, which just made the cramps travel to a different place. He was...
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."...
Blue Earth
**Blue Earth: Chapter one** I At one time, Max had been too interested in other things to have ever bothered with the subject of heroin. He was too busy studying for high school exams and competing for top spot in the varsity baseball...
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,...
A Deep, Dark Storm
**A Deep, Dark Storm** "I'm sorry, Jack. It's not going to happen tonight." I withdrew my lips from his stomach and looked up at him. His eyes, green like misty hills or dew-flecked fields, were settled up to the window, watching the storm outside...
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...
Like a Cauldron Burning [Prologue]
**Zootopia: Like a Cauldron Burning** **Prologue Turning Burning Pages** A cockroach scuttled between the massive and heavily polished shoes of the guard. Unnoticed and undeterred, it scuttled past him waving its long antennae, its legs a blur...
Gallows Hearts
**Those Wild Black Ice Boys #2** **Gallows Hearts** When Jackie woke up, he wondered if he had struck his head against the table. There was a flat throbbing at the side of his skull, his mouth seeming as though it was stuffed with cotton, and when...