The City by the Lake
He doesn’t belong here. No one takes much notice of his solitary figure, but as he walks the lakefront, he feels as if every eye in the city is upon him. The…
Escaping and Cushions...
The slam of the door and his footsteps, as they trample and crush each leaf underfoot and step on every crack – everything she’d asked him not do. The squelch…
City Smog
City smog. People walk by. Huddle together. Hoping that someone may care for them. They stop, and cars go by, they go. Someone gets mugged, but everyone keeps…
Sunday Morning (1/2)
Sunday morning is a sledgehammer, a saguaro to the eyeballs, when you’re a university educated upper-middle class Caucasian first-rate fuck-up like myself…
Chaos Before the Calm
Chaos. Babies whimper, children call out, women cry, men shout orders. Crowds make their way in through the gates in the stone walls. Women and children swarm…
hold on
Rain splashes over the muddy park, like someone dumping dirty bathwater over the entire city. I see a lone figure sitting on a park bench, watching the…
Calling
His earbuds pulse softly with music that only he can hear. His motorcycle purrs unabated down the freeway at speeds that would terrify most drivers. He flies…
Smoldering City Of Cigar Land
Atop my cigar stood a powerful city, one made (unfortunately) out of paper and mere tobacco. The owner struck a match and created a city filled with little…
What Do You See?
I felt the brush of an intangible caress fluttering at the edge of my consciousness. They were here. I signaled to my brothers, and the three of us stopped…
Decus et Tutamen
‘I’ve got a present for you!’ ‘What is it?’ ‘I’ve built you a city. Look!’ As Martin pulled the thick curtains apart, James squinted and lifted his arm to…
Urbanized
It looks eerily luminous in City. If I didn’t know any better, I would think it was cheery, up there in the scrapers. “I don’t know how they breathe without…
Metropolis: The City
Years after the Earth flooded over, Humans still thrive, for they had prepared for the inevitable. Hoverfans, running on steam power, hold aloft cities…
Metropolis: The Future
As she sat on the pier, Haylie tried to count all the hovercars and hoverships flying in and out. But it was so hard to concentrate with the loud fans of the…
Rockway Beach
Mozart, Bach and Nachmanovitch swirled in the heights of the Rockway Volunteer Fire Department’s two-story garage. Bill shuffled his feet side-to-side skipping…
Loose Change
Wailing police car sirens echoed between the wet and sticky brick walls of the ally. Muddled light from a crosswalk at the street reflected in a shiny pool of…
Juxtaposition
The evening air was chill and damp as it danced on my skin. We strolled, with a gait that belied no purpose, through the streets. Twisting our way through the…
Vignette: City
It was becoming something else. What was once the small capital of an unimportant country had been transformed due to the war. Weapons needed to be made…
The New Progenitors
A long day. Time to wait. Nothing special about this place just yet. He made a bonfire. His companions in just a few days. He didn’t understand the mechanics…
Planes
I have to share my story. Not to scare, not to show what kind of tale I can spin, but because it happened to me, and people need to know. Only that way can…
Millpond...
The city of Millpond, climbing towards the sky and draped in a thousand bridges and roads. Terraces and boulevards, canals and alleyways, locks and drives…