We Stand By Him
**We Stand By Him** We stand by him--this fay, pretty boy come from a dream to release us from the oppression we couldn't see. We stand by him--this thing that we all once tried to categorize, to rationalize, failed; his was a path beyond us. ...
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...
The Battlefield (part A)
**The Battlefield (part A)** The Battlefield of Sin. That's what we call the place that used to be The Decc. In its time, The Decc was a huge multicomplex devoted to plays, concerts, and conventions, sort of Duluth's answer to the Hollywood Bowl....
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,...
There's A Leak in the Boiler Room
**There's A Leak in the Boiler Room** "So you see, ladies and gentlemen, because of the mineral's unfortunate location, theoretical speculation had to be disbanded. We uprooted our labs and moved them down two thousand feet below the surface. The...
The Sun Bleeds In My Dreams
**The Sun Bleeds In My Dreams** When Frank Straw came to, he had for several long moments forgotten that he was back in the land of the free, _E Pluribus Unum_. His thoughts had jumped back to that dark and tiny room beneath a steel manufactory...
Pick Me Up
**Pick Me Up** There was no call for it. This thought stuck in Jacob's mind like a fly in a wedding cake. He trudged forward through the morning mist, the heavy smell of pine invading his nostrils, somehow pushing him back...
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...
Dreamspit
**Dreamspit** I Charlie took a deep breath, feeling her nose tickle and her gums tingle with a familiar ache--a trivial issue and one soon remedied. She ran her fingers through her short, acid-green hair, styled like a punk Peter Pan, before taking...
The Things We've Seen
Dakota stared at the television, a blank look plastered on his lupine features. The canned laughter from nostalgic sitcoms and the bland movements of the stereotypical characters blended into a grey atmosphere of dullness,...
Look to The Skies
**Look to the Skies** The men that had carted the heavy artillery across the field wore drab olive green uniforms and chiseled, stony faces. They were tired; it was another cold March morning, but shock and adrenaline had forced them into a state of...
Slick Run, Ep. 2
**Slick Run** II 44 Arise The first thing Fox noticed as he entered KING was how cool it was inside. The entrance led into a wide, sky-lit circular vestibule, with rooms leading off to the left and right and a broad carpeted staircase heading up...