Stories Luck on the road. It was the worst blizzard he had seen in years. At a stop sign, there was a car parked with its emergency lights on and a man waving to be picked up. He thought "what the hell" and let him in "where are you headed? " He
Stories A philosopher king. He signaled the waiter to bring two more with his fingers, the bar was loud and busy that night. –dude what are you talking about?? –listen, man, the whole thing is broken, we’ve been using the system for hundreds of years and even president Churchill said “it’s the
Stories Lighter than a Feather. She spread her wings in one movement and light left them as the trees around her moved. In one movement she jumped and flew high above the clouds to capture the first ray of sunlight. As the sun started to show she put the bottle where the ray was visible
Stories A philosopher king. " When did we stop creating and looking for what could be a better system?" Asked Caph " What do you mean?" replied Ain " Like Winston Churchill said: 'democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones' except he probably didn&
Stories A Shadow. The stars aligned on the ninth day at the ninth hour, a line of bright dots drawn into the sky. The sand from the bottom of the ocean lifted to make a path starting at the beach and following the stars. A bridge of sand formed as the shadow walked
Stories The Backalley. He knocked at the door twice, the small metal trapdoor opened to show just a pair of eyes "passcode?" The man said impatiently behind the door. " Control what you can," said the man outside. The door opened to a dark corridor that led to a fancy
Stories Featured Martian Defibrillator. " Mission control, we are in orbit and ready to land, over," said the pilot of the space mission to carry mycelium to Mars. " this is mission control, we copy, good luck" Dr. Archid watched on the monitors as it all unfolded, " do you think it&
Stories Before the legend. Listening to the song " hijo de la luna" by Mecano. Started to wonder why the moon would want a kid. The water was still. Except for the ripples created by the paddles of the small boat. Right in the middle of the dark lake after all the ripples
Stories Stargazing. he was setting everything up, he got the chairs and blankets ready. It was something they did for years to watch the meteor shower. She was a mechanical engineer and manage to create a machine, that drew into some sort of mat a live picture of the night sky. A
Stories In the night sky. " I'll tell you a secret," he said as they walked back from the store, taking the shortcut through the cemetery. "It's a secret because to this day I'm not quite sure what I saw. That one summer in the woods. I
Stories Far way storms. "Dude come to the window! he's back doing his thing," said J pointing at the homeless man on the other side of the street. The man was pulling a box closer to a mailbox. As he stepped on it, he hit a broken stick mended with
Stories On a night without moon. She grabbed the crystal and held it in the air. Twisted it three times and pulled it down like a zipper. As the crystal moved down it opened up a cut in the fabric of reality. She felt the breeze from the beach where she just opened the portal. Her
Stories The fisherman. There once was a fisherman. He went fishing at night on a lake with nothing but an oil lamp and his fishing equipment. One night was full of stars and a full moon reflecting on the water. He caught a glowing white KOI fish, right where the moon was reflecting.
Stories A Fire goblin A snap of the fingers and its thumbnail lit up like a candle. The creature looking through the circular window only had one good eye, the other one was a glass eye that most of the time was white. The window was stained-glass full of colours. He walked away, wobbling
Stories Brass and strings. As the glass elevator went up you could hear the sound of strings, the chords and vibrations in the wood. The building was pretty much all glass but there was also a lot of metal too, railings and columns. It was mostly all offices and a big balcony-like hole in
Stories Among the stars He was in charge of changing the lightbulb, if you will, of the stars that went dark after a while. He worked at something similar to the back of a bowling alley except, it was the universe he was in charge of. He was blind as a punishment, or so
Stories The theory of potential I woke up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat, I had to find my tablet... this was going to be groundbreaking. It came to me in a dream, it was one of those fucked up ones where you see hooded creatures and crazy places, those dreams
Stories Late for work There was a noise downstairs, but there was no one at the house. He went down the stairs and stood quietly at the end of the hallway. He heard it again it was coming from the storage under the stairs, with one hand on the door handle he put his
Stories Sitting by the tree. He kneeled down to take a sip of water from the lake. As he did, he felt the water was different, he felt it go down and through his body until it got to his eyes. The world changed, everything was alive. Then he heard it, a voice on the
Stories Featured Fate. On her boat, she paddled slowly moving to a cluster of stars to pick just the necessary for that night. She came as close as she could to the tree and pulled the closest one with one hand. The boat rocked a bit from side to side as she took
