The Tower

Ishii of Kashton stood tall with her left arm pointed at her opponent who was illuminated by constant lightning blasts. The two magi faced each other, watched by hundreds of nobles and wizards in stands which were donned in bright red pennants and sullen green banners with sigils sewn into each one. Roaring winds whipped […]

Guardian Echo

Even at 1,035mph the clouds well below Marlin crawled by. “MCO, MCO this is Guardian Echo, come in.” It said. After two years, static sounded took the sound of depression – something Marlin had never considered before. No one programmed depression into the reconnaissance plane. The coordinates were automatically read by one of Marlin’s subsystems: […]

A Blessed Curse

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. For the first hundred-fifty years as a spirit, Morgan tried any sort of method or spell to physically interact with the world if only to stop the incessant noises that haunted her. The clock in Sara’s dining room echoed throughout the cold house, and a faucet’s handle was […]

The Half Decade Anomaly

Four years ago, every person on Earth lost five years of memory. Ranzi remembers commuting on a train to London with her thermos of coffee perched in a cup holder by the window, the groomed countryside passing outside. The next moment, her coffee was gone and the same countryside looked shabby, healthy, but the landscape […]

The Devil’s Card Deck

“Think of heaven and hell as more of a PR divide. They just have the better marketers.” The demon Jaalbzznk led Samantha from New Mexico down a spiral staircase with razor blades for hand rails and stone steps blacker than midnight. “We both provide the same service,” Jaalbzznk hissed with a fork tongue – he […]

The Puppet Master

The biggest mistake of my life was heckling a puppet show. And it wasn’t even a particularly good heckle. It was one of the early Punch and Judy shows in Italy with the Medici family still running the place. Punch was being the usual amount of abusive to Judy, and the fine art of motor […]

Little Witches

Estelle had long ago given up magic for the conveniences of technology. Scares lined her arms from struggling to get Screeching Scarabs into the right caldron and from dealing with self-righteous cats refusing to be familiars. And how many promised first born sons did she have to trek across the country to whisk away after […]

Shut it down

“Where they fucked up, see, was thinking they’re privileged or something.” McDevitt took another hit on her ever disappearing joint. “They always thought First Contact – with capital letters, mind you – would be beamed right to them.” “Like straight to their computers or something?” “Beamed straight up their asses for all I know. They […]

The Ezekiel Colonies

None of the cults got it right in the end. The Lizard people fanatics dropped their protest signs when the Lizard people never shed their human skin. People wearing crystals for secret energy realized dinosaurs weren’t at the Earth’s core. The Illuminati turned out to just be a bunch of middle-aged white dudes taking time […]

August 4th, 2326

“Today is August 4, 2326,” a voice said waking you up, “in the city of Helsinki.” It repeated the date four times as you managed to open your eyes for the first time in… wait, in how long? “Today is the 322nd birthday of Dr. Wiggen. Today is the 412th anniversary of RB laboratory opening. […]