Posted in Stories on Oct 5th, 2005 No Comments »
She drew herself to her full height, grasping the ground with her toes, clutching at the fabric of the universe with her fingertips, palming entire galaxies in each hand. Somehow, a glass was filled and placed between her waiting fingers. There she stood, redolent in the copper sheen of a thousand million brown dwarves, face [...]
Posted in Stories on Mar 5th, 2005 No Comments »
“Don’t test me,” Munta said, struggling with the controls. The whole ship shuddered and coughed in the silence of space, a sound that only he could hear. Stars blazed in their solid pinpoints all about him, no longer the smears of light that danced along the corridors of the wormhole. A blue and yellow globe [...]
Posted in Stories on Dec 21st, 2004 No Comments »
The venerable physics Professor Christina Kringle, greying more from standing in a perpetual cloud of chalk dust than from decades of teaching and research, stood before her class of dumbfounded undergraduates on the last day of fall quarter.
“There will be no final exam,” she announced, for the second time. “Merry Christmas. Happy Hannukkah, Blessed Kwanzaa, [...]
Posted in Stories on Dec 13th, 2004 No Comments »
Deep beneath the rubble of centuries past lay a pebble. It was all that remained of the stone that had been spattered with a drop of the sweat of the Buddha as he had passed by on his way to some greater destination. The stone had attained sentience at that very instant. It had lain [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Thought, Inspiration, and Mastery loomed over the square, each firmly cemented to their pedestals atop the three arches in the grand entrance of the cathedral of Knowledge. Beneath them flowed the constant stream of the prodigal and the pious, the lay and the clergy, and, with each passage in and out, the massive figures bestowed [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
For what seemed like millennia, we hung in the superposition of right and wrong, life and death, light and darkness. We simultaneously longed for and dreaded the hammer’s fall. The conclusion of this quantum state would determine the fate of us all, and every mote in that soup of yes and no wavered (some more [...]
Posted in Stories on Oct 14th, 2004 No Comments »
Once there was a hollow log that wanted nothing more than to frolic in the hills with its pet snail Sedgwick and drink mead and play darts. Then one day, the lords of the land, whose heads were mostly bald and hair was mostly white, asked the hollow log to be the master of a [...]
Posted in Stories on Oct 4th, 2004 No Comments »
Every day he stood in front of the bathroom mirror, alone, and looked into his eyes looking into his eyes and thought, “This man in front of me, on the other side of the glass, is me.” Then he would immediately think, “If I were someone else, would I see me as someone of import? [...]
Posted in Stories on Sep 24th, 2004 No Comments »
From deep in her belly, she felt an awareness of light growing. It glowed, like a radioactive alien-human hybrid fetus, attached to her coccyx with a placenta of wires and sockets, and fed off her nervous system’s potential energy with the voracious appetite of a tapeworm.
Moera ran her hand over the scar three inches below [...]
Posted in Stories on Sep 20th, 2004 No Comments »
She cradles me in arms of aluminum and silicon, and, though I know she is mute and unfeeling and not even female, I feel loved by her. The hum of gears and fans beneath her hard, sculpted shell and gentle hiss and tick of memory access are as the gentle whisperings of a lover. Her [...]