A collection of embarrassments (more likely) and wins (less likely) as I try my hand at gambling with my writing abilities in The Fab Spec Fic Smackdown, a contest that is completely out of my league if it were real person, in which case it would probably be a 10, or maybe even higher.Have fun reading or be disappointed, if you dare.…
a futuristic house with very realistic habitat virtualizations. a different version of the afterlife. a usual day turned unusual in seconds. That's a few. What else can there be?stories. weirdness. immediacy. all in one place (like I hope it should be).…
Gray skies. The red sun. In these tough times, it's enough to describe a day that is ordinary it isn't.…
Flowers used to bloom. They bloomed to great extents; with great yellow fragrance both in color and in their light, they shine. And they shinebecause the kids sing happily to them, all night and all night. Almost without pause.…
The chief says it's right. The men say it's wrong. It's up to the war to decide, and the universe to choose among.He came earlier, so much earlier, than early morning itself.…
Berenstein's a wrong planet. I don't know if they told you, but there's one thing you don't do. You never go there.Accident's no excuse.…
We cannot go back. We've come a long way, but apparentlythis is the only way.Someone will find it. Someone will point at us. And I can't let that happen. And get in the way.…
A story about a sandwich, or maybe making a sandwich, or maybe neither? Ah, nevermind. It's silly. Just read it.…
Desire can't be deadly, unless, of course, it turns the universe into a tiny speck through emptiness, again. The Big Bang. A tiny speck that floated through darkness, exploded and formed the universe as we know it. That was how everything began, they say. But that wasn't the only one. We weren't the only universe that existed. The Big Restore. This was how the first three universes before us ceased to exist billions of years after each had existed because of the Big Bang. What happens then? The universe comes back to being a speck in the darkness again. What causes this? Well that part's tricky. The Sents. They are the only ones that survives these Restores and lives again on the universe that will be born. No one knows how or why they survive. But preventing Restores to happen, they searched for the cause for years and they have it found out. The Reses. A Res exists in each universe in any form, in any kind, in any race of a dominating species. They carry threats, and as universal threats go, this should and must be dealt with. The Restore happens when someone that they once loved who loved them leaves them by will, and knowing that someone that was once theirs isn't theirs anymore, their desire for that someone only grows a lot more, and with it an energy capable of restoring the universe to what it once was. The Sents have decided on how to stop the universe from being Restored again. They'll have someone do the dirty work for them. They kill the desired before the potential Res sees an indicator that their desired isn't theirs anymore, and let it be known just later that their desired is dead. In this case, grief is better than obsession. And the Restore still happens when the Reses are killed. Therefore, this is the only thing to do. One for the many. A killing for a cause, for life to continue on. Entry to BeyondSol's Hide and Seek writing contest. #beyondsol…
Kung buong buhay mo ay minamalas ka na, hindi mo na aasahang pagpapalain ka pa kailanman ng kapalaran. Ngunit hindi mo man asahan,Hindi ka pa rin makasisiguro.…
A man sits in his porch with a cup of coffee on his table. It is raining, and the urge to go to bed and to drink coffee has troubled him.Entry to Coffee on a Porch writing contest.…
Astronauts crash on a foreign planet, with nothing and no one else but them on the terrain.…
I don't know. It's something. I can't get them out of my head, those words. And I don't know why.And then I got the chance. A chance to meet the author. What's more, make a story about his writing.…
