Jessica Was about eight years old when they moved to the Village, they lived in a cottage on an old derelict farm. Min lived in a tiny cottage just over a hedge that had gotten out of control and shot up into the sky. Min was an old lady with waist length course grey hair […]
The Artists arrived on an unsuspecting Earth; they arrived in shining spaceships curved into weird and disturbing shapes. It would take the humans no short time to work out why the ships were so disturbing and by that point it was a bit mute anyway. The Artists were sleek, looking as is they were made […]
Adriana shivered, the night had a clammy clinging quality to it and she was only wearing a thin cotton shirt, the cloying moisture of the air condensed out onto her ashen hair plastering it to her head. The streets looked deserted and bleak, most people had evidently decided that this was not a night for […]
Alex carried his tranquilised wife into their now empty home, the toys that were now obsolete scattered the floor and he pushed his tears down deep. The house was chill and clammy damp. The hospital smell was all over him but there was nothing he could do. He dropped Clare on the settee and picked […]
Broken in the woods the aluminum pole that had once been a black and gold hiking stick lay. The leaves half covered it before anyone arrived looking for it’s young Mistress but unfortunately by that point she was many miles away and on the verge of death. The police bagged it up like a dog […]
Light Through the Window (first published on Red Monster) The light coming through the window is milky white and the light insipid, the girl sits at an equally dirty grey laptop writing, wondering when the lunch bell will ring and release her from the torment of getting those sticky thoughts she can not abide down […]
I stand on the brink of the world, here in the mountains were I can see the pin pricks of light and the ghostly forms of leviathans I know to be the cities buildings, ribbons of lights show me were the transportation arteries flow. I try not to look at the sky, I know what […]
Elsa followed her mother out of the door, Dad was gone, she wasn’t sure where, just gone, ‘I can no longer look after you,’ the woman said in a tone as dead as the autumn leaves that still littered the floor. She was wearing the coat her gran had bought her before the fuel prices […]
People had pushed back the boundaries, repeatedly done the impossible and strived to move onwards and upwards. Stella was born in an age of inter galatic travel, she was upload and cyborg and a teenager. Her parents had been star hippies living on asteroids that float and drift between the systems. She was named for […]
Elsa walked along the beach of black gritty sand, the glass knife in her webbed fingers gleamed with wetness she had killed the shark, it was on the beach where none would touch it regardless of the amount of meat it held. Not once she told the elders about the attack anyway. Out of the […]