This is an entry into my Adventures of Dar'goth Series. An ongoing episodic series about the titular Old God of Madness after he has returned to take over the world, only to be beaten down by cultural norms he does not understand, incompetent followers, and government bureaucracy. For the first time in my life I … Continue reading A Sacrifice with a Purpose
Category: Flash Fiction
New Changes to Corporate Structure
Originally submitted to this writing prompt. Thanks for reading! Spreadsheets, proprietary software invented by higher spirits far above my level of enlightenment, and the skimming of emails made up most of my day. For the past millennia or so my job had been slowly siphoned off to the ethereal machines that somehow surpassed even the … Continue reading New Changes to Corporate Structure
An Endless Abyss of Cyan
Originally submitted to this writing prompt. An Endless Abyss of Cyan In my many years both as a cave diver and volunteer rescuer, I had never seen anything like this before. I had separated from my crew about half an hour ago, diverting into the older portion of the mines. Guided this time not by … Continue reading An Endless Abyss of Cyan
Lack of Belief
Originally submitted to this writing prompt. Lack of Belief When I died I thought that would be it. Blackness. Nil. A complete cessation of experiencing the universe. I did not believe in the afterlife having renounced my religious ties years ago. But instead, I woke up to the smell of rotting flesh and the rising … Continue reading Lack of Belief
After the Adventure
This story was originally submitted to this prompt. The first few weeks back in our world were the hardest. I mean, imagine what you’d be like in our situation. Two identical twin boys, age fourteen, both lanky nerds who’d spent more time indoors playing video games and putting off our homework than socializing and getting … Continue reading After the Adventure
The Mark & The Drone
Inspired by this prompt. This is a part of my Adventures of Dar'goth Series, an ongoing series about the Old God of Madness, Dar'goth, as he tries to navigate the modern world. You saw her on the street corner of Applemath Avenue and Obsidian Drive. Middle aged. Caucasian. Slim stature. Donning a Karen like haircut, … Continue reading The Mark & The Drone
Ninth & General Way
Originally submitted here. On the corner of South Ninth and General Way, just behind the SmartMart in the deep corner of the alley untouched by the city’s sanitation probes you can find me. Dressed in withering clothes that have long outstayed their lifespan, down to nothing but a patchwork of fabrics old and new. An … Continue reading Ninth & General Way
A Completely Reasonable Solution to Testing Human Spaceflight
Originally submitted to this prompt. Silence filled the board room. And not the silence of shock and disgust one would have expected when the CEO just dropped her “brilliant” idea of offering free trips to the downtrodden members of society inside the company’s new economic personal low Earth orbit shuttle like human crash test dummies. … Continue reading A Completely Reasonable Solution to Testing Human Spaceflight
Within a Single Breath
Originally submitted here. Locked away in the safe confines of her apartment where the noise and activity of the outside world had become muted behind the well insulated walls Monica, sitting in a lotus position upon her yoga mat closed her eyes an inhaled with her whole diaphragm. The sun had long set and only … Continue reading Within a Single Breath
Heart Stoppers
Originally submitted to this prompt. The moment his blade slipped through the air and into my rib-cage my heart stopped. I mean not literally. Well not just literally, figuratively it stopped too. Much like his had as he fell on top of me and into the edge of my wrist mounted blade. Not long afterwards … Continue reading Heart Stoppers