Throughout history it had been known as the Red planet, or as some harbringer of war. Mars sat in the field of view and Elsa felt the same awe she had as a child as she flicked through the space agencies’ rovers images. She’d always thought of it as a Red Globe, the same as […]
She’d found it on the beach. It wasn’t much of a thing, just a fake gem from some piece of costume jewellery, but it was glass and not plastic at least. A lovely domed oval of blue glass with little flecks within. Bov held it up to the weak sun light and imagined that each […]
The myth ran somewhat like this – There was a time when the Master made all the races that filled the earths and the skies and the seas. A great dwelling rose up higher than the tallest mountain and that was were the Masters lived with their chosen, they gave them wings and they would […]
It was there beyond the Sandy Hills; everybody knew it, though no one could now recall where the stories had come from. All the elders were certain that the edge, the barrier to their world was beyond the Sandy Hills. Most were scared of what lay there in the beyond but not Inanu. She had […]
The air was thick making thinking sluggish the sentinial sat wishing for sleep knowing that none would be forth coming. The last 1000 yrs had been the same, sweltering heat and grit storms. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the heat had been dry and dusty but it was thick with humidity – the […]
Written for Bi-Visibility Day. Saving Heaven I’d broken away from all that religious nonsense several years before the incident, and was living estranged from my family for the effort. It was a Thursday when the knock at the door came. I pulled it open and an older man in a fine but dated suit stood […]
The pack of unlikely primates were bright but not the best equipped animals, it was amazing they had survived this far, their leader was the most intelligent amongst them. He’d killed all the other males but now as his group all began to be heavily pregnant or nursing small babes he wondered if that had […]
There’s a cat that appears at the back door sometimes, it has markings that make it look like a skull in reverse. It stares at me but wont come in. My own cats ignore it and if we attempt to put food outside for it, it pointedly ignores it until the slugs come – then […]
The liquid was cool and clear and had many many little bubble floating up and popping on the surface, pop and fizz and sugary smell, it drew her forward. Kimmy stared at the offered beverage her eyes wide with wonder, dark brown hair curled around her face but she did not move to take the […]
With the death rate nearly non-existent the population went exponential. It was an explosion, a rapid climb towards oblivion but we found a solution – sleep tanks glistened full of those who chose a way out, for now. Stacked high they formed walls and the walls grew. Citadels of the sleeping arose. Most left the […]