Hard Drive jumped in the backseat and positioned Acrylic in a wrap hold. "Okay, wake him."

I kicked him in the heel again and after a whine and a moan, his eyes fluttered open and he began to squirm.

"Gerroff me!"

"Acrylic. Look at me!" I got right in his…

The station was usually busy, built to accommodate semi trucks and newer than the one across the road. It was late when we stopped, so the lack of traffic was not unexpected. Lights were on brightly and a lone couple drank coffee at one of the 3 booths.

…

Kathy von Carey

Hung on the lamppost

Bucking and swaying

Then slipping again

.

Leaping to snatch it

She grasped the loose wires

Bucking and swaying

Collapsing in pain

.

Children be cautious

In all of your playtime

There’s fun, but there’s danger

So mind h…

After tipping his hat, the hat took their orders and went back to the kitchen. Pips let out a soft snort, shaking his head gently to and fro. "That hat's probably either your kid, or mine," he said nostalgically. "And here we all are here...at Scooper's. …

I watched you burn.

I watched as your multi-hued plumage singed and reduced to grey, dead ash.

I watched powerlessly as your skin, flesh and bone blistered, seared and charred. Before long, a pile of soot and slag was all that remained where you had bee…

Her laughter broke the silence.

Ed knew, at the sound, what had been lost; what could never be recovered. The wait was over, and now the fight, or the flight, would begin. He cursed the urge he had yielded to: a hunger for light. A spark of knowledge: her…

To meet our unmet expectations

We will scrape off our old perceptions

to grow shiny new understanding

and expose our ideas to the elemental truths

.

Until they are weathered

and weary

and ready

for the new generation

Several years later, I was sixteen. Life had continued much the same, although Verux was now hesitant to send more people. We'd been pretty successful in beating them back, especially with Nochra on our side. She was an incredibly skilled fighter, with a …

'Unusual' is a word often used to describe Tamori Taka.

Wearing a kimono of green and gold, befitting a Dragon Shugenja, she would stick out in a crowd of peasants, but what makes her stand out among Samurai starts higher up.

Uncommon enough to see such…

“What do you see?” the doctor said.

“It’s dark.”

The girl sat in the corner of the room, knees pulled up to her chin. She rocked slowly back and forth.

“What’s dark?”

The girl shook her head, one hand scratching at the side of her face until it drew…

I'm going to use this account for 'choose your own adventure' ventures; I think that it will be an effective way to do such things.

I may have some that I at least intend as my own story, and some that I will welcome others' collaboration willy nilly, fo…

https://youtu.be/onXHGZtAT4g

Like, there I was, see? And the gal was like hey babe, come up to the space station with me, nyet? And I was loose, I was groovin for the nice time like any of youse would be, you know?

So I'm up the ladder, sneaking a peek c…

The heat was unbearable now, hotter than it had ever been in the planets entire history. At least the pretences were over, there was no one denying it anymore everyone had finally accepted humanity would be dead within hours. I was glad I had said goodbye…

Veron Gerrick scrolled through the palace alerts looking for anything that demanded his personal attention. Much of his staff had been inherited from his mother and their loyalty had transferred to him when he had assumed the position of High Lord. They w…

I'm feeling better today, I'm not logged in at that other blogging site that causes me all my joy and woe. I think maybe I'm feeling stronger today. I would ideally tell these people off and tell them to get lost or to stop squicking me out, but maybe I'l…

Don't tell me "just stay strong!"

You're not getting the message.

If I were strong, this would not be a message. I am NOT strong. I'm near collapse. I can't stay strong if I am not strong to begin with.

I think I'll just stay weak until I drop off the wo…

Winters here are not bitterly cold, just barren. The acid rainy season drives everyone underground as the leaves melt off the trees. Harvest was good, we will survive until the leaves sprout again, but the council meets every day to craft more rules.

The…

As the finely honed edge of his opponent's weapon sliced the air where his head had been a mere fraction of a second previously, he would have sworn to the gods that the blade sang, not with anger but joy. Stinging above his left eye told him that the bla…

When we met, I found out your name was Xavier. And I was ecstatic. I've always loved that name. It's cool and it has an X in it which is even more awesome. This must've been the start of me deluding myself to your true persona. Which I'm so sorry for.

Th…

God how she hated the burden on her limbs

That muddied her air and scratched at her skin

She resented the effort it took to get up

And believed that intensity proved her weak (and f@%ed up)

+

But she told me this morning that now things have changed

Her …

Story is marked as mature

a slurry jet of words, propelled by fear

of you, and what you'll think of me, erupts

from deep within my mind. step back, stand clear!

do not get splashed; this vitriol corrupts,

.

as i can witness. wildly i o'erflow!

acidic sentiments cannot be trapt

wit…

I coast along without a plan into the foyer where the little rags grow

Into the Toyota's lobby of the small pliant crinkles who gather like dust mites on holiday

.

Past the spoons

With a prescribed purpose I found in the drawer of chests.

Can the healing …

The Growth has covered the entire coastline for as long as we could tell, and it grew out onto the ocean in some places. Some kind of toxic organism, killed five of ours. No safe landing anywhere.

It had been too long. Rations were dwindling, the crew sta…

"Who are you?" she asked after several moments of silence.

"N-" I realized I didn't have to keep going by that name. I had a chance to tell someone something different. What I'd been thinking was... "Tourmaline. My name is Tourmaline."

A few more tense mo…