The Beast
One of them didn’t give the Listener the opportunity to find the words to soothe the savage Beast. It was too late to stop the claws from ripping through The…
On the Scene, Ready for It
A battered pick-up ferried Doctor Wonder to the disaster in progress, driven by a pair of well intentioned citizens eager for their hero to arrive in a timely…
silence
I’m going crazy with this silence. Why aren’t you talking to me? I’m being stupid. It’s nothing. So we disagreed. Whatever. It happens to people all the time…
Probably Not a Fight for Our Lives
After a quick landing and disembarking, their rides disappeared into the night with a maelstrom of dust and gravel. Not really aware, almost too tired to be…
There is No Confidence Without a Reliable Reality
I squared off with the giant bearded biker as a drunken crowd roared enthusiastically. The biker looked like a sadistic Santa Claus- one that had discovered…
Back In Formation
He doesn’t see them as human, he just puts a bullet in them, wipes the dust off his boot with the shirt of a fallen soldier, and moves behind a cement…
More Important Things To Do
“Can you get off me?” I ask after I can collect my thoughts into some form of sanity. The man quickly got up with his suspicious and sour expression never…
Strangers Meet
At this point I felt I must try and calm things down. “How about we just have the window open a tiny bit? We’ve just had to run to catch this train. In a few…
The Retort Usually Occurs to Me Only Hours Later
The timing of this encounter (which, by the way, appeared to be quite entertaining to the other passengers judging by their smirks and sniggers) was such that…
Strangers on a Train... to Watford
I boarded a train at King’s Langley in 1978. Nothing remarkable in that, you might say other than the fact that I’m old enough to have done so. I, with my…
Winner
Come at me with your accusations, with your negativity. Facts will win. Positivity will win. Keep it up, try to keep the attention away, away from your lies…
Vanquish vs. Triumphant
As I sat on a rock sounds of shuffling all about HOW can I sit and pout with with this flying around? Frustrations fill my body pain fills my brain Turning…
Wisps of the Cold
A few minutes later inevitability of probability occurs and the man launches himself across the table at Jesse. I quickly grab the lock box under the table…
Diamonds in the Night: Checkmate
“Do you even know what your father has been up to?” Jacqueline inquired, sending a quick jab to Barbara’s ribs. She could tell she hit a sensitive spot by the…
An interesting confrontation
Hunt, kill, cease. Power sensed. Not in the present. Wait. Look. *End it.* _What is this creature, this abomination doing here? It is not supposed to be here…
Bob
Bob. Bob lifted his glass encrusted wooden bats above his head and shouted a mindless guttural call for my blood up to the braying crowd above. I raised the…
Shit
Shit. When I entered the pit the only smell that could reach my brain was of shit. The ground was wet with it. Great pools of runny brown regret. Above me was…
We Weave a Messed Up Web
Everything is tangled Like a web being knocked down. I can’t let you go, So I fight against odds. Nothing is perfect anymore. No happiness without anger, No…
Fuck
Fuck. It was the only word to come to mind staring at the myriad weapons laid out on the dirty, pitted wooden table before me. -a hook, still glistening with…
Before the Fight Sequence
He is sitting quietly up against an old oak tree lost in thoughts not meant for the world. The only sound is the wind which blows back his dark hair and…