I let impatience get the better of me. It’s what I always did. I slurped the last drop of water as the scorching hot sun burned my already blistered skin. I wasn’t sure how much longer I could last exposed in the never-ending sand dunes. Each one bled together. My eyes had begun to fail […]
Shorts
Literature That Stopped Time When a Time-traveler Meets His Favorite Writers
The Holodeck, a Tardis, a dream, or just my mind. However I got there, it just happened. Back and forth, to and fro. The greatest authors, at least in my mind. There they were, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among them. “My Dear Watson. How do you do?” he asked, pipe in mouth and donning a […]
The Knob
I pushed my bed ‘til it rested against the entrance. These were humid nights, and the only relief from the suffocating shroud of moisture and heat was the bit of breeze that seeped through the cracks of my door.
The Storm
“Dad, what are we going to do?” “What we’ve always done,” Peter replied. The city’s silhouette filtered through the window panes. Narrow glass tunnels joined mega-structures connected into a massive complex accessible from anywhere within the sprawling metropolis. Large, towering, multicolored glass spires glistened upon the bare streets and surrounding buildings. “But we’re going to […]