Go Fish

Henrietta looked up from her hand of cards as the entry hatch to the break room clicked, hissed and slid open. She was even more surprised to see a man wearing the sharp white uniform of the security team step through the hatch, it was the middle of the night, wouldn't anyone getting off work …

Broken Clockwork

This isn't a full story, this is me trying to do some scenery and setting up as practice. Tick, tock, tick, tock. The clockwork ran like, well, clockwork. Giant gears turning forever, high above a world left so far behind that looking out over the ledge was like gazing into the heart of the abyss. …

Poems

Today will not have a drabble, instead, have two poems. Plus a bit of... I just need to say stuff. I apologize to everyone for not making an actual drabble today, the main portion of the day got eaten up by other things, and when I came back to do it just now I had …

Art

Jeremy stepped back to admire his handiwork, looking up and nodding. Looked good, nice and neat. He took his brush and dropped it into one of the cans of paint and picked the cans up to bring them back down to the sidewalk below. "Hey, you finished!" Jeremy looked over the railing down at the …

Update

Story of a Man is complete, although I'm not totally happy with it. I might take the idea and redo it again at some point in the future with a more fully fleshed out middle and ending.

Story of a Man

Once upon a time there was a man. This should be nothing new, as there have been many men born in the history of the world, and this man was no different. He was of woman born, he did not spring from the head of a god fully formed, or hop out of his mother's …

No views still? Guess people just don't like poetry.

Light (poem)

There's only so much light within the day For the sun soon sets and fades away And so if your death you wish to stay Pick up your torch, for there's shadows to slay.

The Story

So, this thought is related to The Baleful Eye. That story is actually a small chunk of a larger story idea I have, and considering how well that turned out, I'm thinking I might well want to try and do the whole thing eventually as a serial. Thoughts?

The Baleful Eye: Pt. 3

Beginning can be found here. Pt 2 can be found here. The Eye charged. Hannah jumped. Her leg screamed in pain as she activated the rocket boots and spiraled up into the air, sideways. One of her boots had broken, and wasn't releasing fuel. She spiraled around in the air, and barely coasted over the top …