Mortal Gods
Image by Alemko Coksa from Pixabay The hunters dragged their prey out of the shin deep waters and onto the deck of their rafted village which floated aimlessly, drifting under the bright constellations and across…
Swamped
Image by Sascha Fritz from Pixabay It was the smell, half rotted matter pooled and festering into congealed muck. It was the effort, gagging to heave dense air in vain to soothe burning muscles. It…
Heck Hath No Fury
Image by Mona El Falaky from Pixabay This flash is a sequel to “A Crossroads in Limbo”. I wrote that as the world went into lock down, I wrote this sequel as it seemed my…
Technical Proficiency Pending
Heya, For those of you with a keen sense of awareness, you may notice I have a sign up form on my now snazzy looking website. I am slowly working my primitive mind around the…
Just One More
Image by Roland Nikrandt from Pixabay Fresh blood turned the dust in my mouth to mud, I gripped at the ground but my ring finger would not bend, at least it was too numb to…
Thine Own Gold
Image by SEBASTIEN MARTY from Pixabay The boy gripped at shards of clay with numb knuckles and his robes dripped onto the polished floorboards, saturated with freezing rain. Compared to the storm ravaging the mountainside the room was…
The Gardener and the Tea Mage
Photo by allison christine on Unsplash The Gardener and the Tea Mage The wind chimes sounded lazy dulcet tones in the gentle breeze. It spread a smile across the woman’s crinkled face. She sighed, digging through pot plants…
Celestial Architect
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay Lucicron ignored the battle on the other side of the sealed doors, the last battle to ever be fought between his people, here on the edge of the galaxy. He ignored the enemy…
The Unluckiest Man in the World
Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay General Roan shivered as he left the heated compartment of the government car. It wasn’t just cold, but apocalyptic considering the usually humid area, blasted by the chilly winds under the dark…
Little ‘g’
Image by ArtTower from Pixabay Dave watched from the dark alleyway as the paparazzi madness swarmed the far side of the street. The stretched hummer pulled up and they went wild with the blinding flashes…