• The War in Heaven (Story)

    ‘Welcome to the presence of God,’ the voice boomed, and the scientist trembled quietly to himself. He hated these visits.

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  • Common Decency

    "I had to kill for it," he said, affecting a look of understated malevolence. The middle-man’s heavy head swung around like an old piece of machinery. The jewel had already disappeared down one…

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  • I hear bullets.

    The sound of gunfire does not sound like it does in the movies. No matter how surround sound it gets, nothing is like this.

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  • Bad Dreams

    Barb had trouble sleeping. She closed her eyes and opened them again to check how much time had gone by since the last time she checked. The clock glowed greenly, ‘2:15am’, into the dark. It…

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  • 'Our modern times'

    Voluminous red drapery slowly peeled apart to reveal a massive, flyspecked screen. All the eyes of the expectant audience looked up, as a sepia-tinged newsreel flickered to life.

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  • Light-years Away

    Light-years away are unknown places;
    the truth just can’t be seen from here…

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  • Amazing Race

    Janet wandered down the deserted halls of the museum – floors of exhibits dedicated to an amazing race. Its capacity for innovation in the face of such limited knowledge never failed to impres…

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  • Going home

    (Human Calicivirus Disease (HCD) is a newly emergent, highly infectious viral disease of humans. There is no effective treatment for this disease at the time of writing …)

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  • The gift

    How noble this creature’s ambition that it bestow this gift upon the the galaxy

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  • SteamPunk Visual Art - where can I find some?

    Hi Folks,

    Can anyone give me some blog/web site addresses where I might view some SteamPunk visual art…paintings, drawings, photo set-ups etc…I’ve been browsing the web and though there …

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  • Fractal Net

    The mapping of the genomes of every living creature on earth has been completed down to the level of micro-organisms. Shortly thereafter, the trend of inter-connective technology reaches it’s p…

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  • Download illusion, Upload Life and Universe.....

    The pen was mightier than the sword, but silicon chips
    can, and will, upload all
    Megabyte, Kilobyte, Gigabyte…..
    Minute, Second, Hour…..

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  • In a darkened room III

    When I enter the room she’s still sitting in the corner. Her skin’s perfection highlighted by envious night light, desirous of the ardent touch of we mere mortals. Porcelain cool. Some say t…

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  • High society

    The ocean is down there, somewhere.
    I can hear it, but I can’t see it, in this most solitary of places. The concrete pylons are ghostly pale in the reflected light from the gas giant. I’m alon…

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  • Solaris

    I have photographs of a series of planets. I look forward to sharing some remarkable stories with you. Please view this in the larger format to appreciate the imagery of this macro/bark photogr…

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  • Going Green

    And he was the straight man because he pulled a long, straight razor out of the tuxedo’s pocket and walked up to the first comedian and slashed the man’s throat.

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  • constriction

    a constricted vision of the world
    when the sun reclines
    the night consumes light
    geological epochs
    epochs fly
    the time blinded by a thousand dying suns

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