In all directions there was nothing but desolation. The last bits of light were not giving way to much detail. A weathered two lane road ran through the middle of the desert. An unmaintained wire and post fence bracketed the road. Some old farmer may have ran cattle in the area long ago. The road seemed to lead nowhere in either direction. An ominous mountain range that could only be distinguished...

While digging through a box in the attic he found it. The book almost seemed to call to him. He even forgot what he had been looking for. Holding the book in his hands all he wanted was to read it. The desire was insatiable. The book had to be thousands of years old. The cover was in some ancient and dead language. Still knowing he wouldn’t understand the contents he could curb the desire to read ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein had been before her time. She could dream it but no one at that time could create it. But now in 2023 an ambitious but reckless young doctor was going to make it happen.

At a young’s age he had received the nickname Frankenstein. This loved the nickname and even more he couldn’t get enough of that original story. He could practically recite Mary Shelley’s book by the ...

Tanner opened his eyes couldn’t make out much. It was dark, his eyes needed time to adjust. Out of instinct he reached up to rub his eyes but his hands didn’t raise higher than his shoulders. They were stopped abruptly by hard metal around each wrist. Out of fear he stood but his wrist pulled him down this time. He was trapped. He sat back down and tried to get a better picture of his situation. N...

He’d taken to the sea 2 years ago after trying to make it on land hadn’t worked. Those that survived had become ruthless. When you imagine an apocalypse you don’t think about the ocean and apparently when an apocalypse happens nobody thinks of the ocean as a refuge. Others barriers had become his haven. While he was able to escape the cruelty of those that had survived he ran right into loneliness...

“Read this.”

“Babe are you ok?”

“Just read this, please.”

After his insistence she read the the short story but was puzzled by it. She read it again. This was his story but he had revised it? But at the same time parts didn’t feel like him and she knew his writing well.

Not being able to contain his frustration any longer and registering his wife’s confusion he started to cry. He paced away ...

The 2 couples were hiking back to thier cars at dusk. They had started this hike knowing they’d be cutting it close on daylight. Nor were they far from the car when they saw the flashing lights at the top of the hill. It looked as though someone was flashing a light at them to provide direction back. There had been a few hikers that were concerned about their timing in the trail. The 2 couples jus...

3 cowboys sat around a campfire under the stars. They were all anxiously involved the conversation, it was clear they weren’t just shooting the shit. The biggest cowboy held his hands up and the other 2 stopped talking, “Alright boys the plan is clear, we could beat this horse to death all night. Let’s get some sleep before this job tomorrow.”

The scrappiest of the cowboys stood to walk away but...

All she said when he answered the door was, “please help me.” She then collapsed into his house. He kinda just stood there for a moment in shock, he wasn’t sure but he thought this might be the missing girl from the news. Realizing that her captor might be following her, he quickly drug her inside and slammed the door shut.

Panicked he paced in front of her, he couldn’t figure out what to do nex...

In a stereotypical manner he looked out his window through a crack in the blinds, one hand on the hip, the other spreading the blinds a part. He called over his shoulder to his wife in the kitchen, “Dave’s at it again!”

Rolling her eyes she marched into the front room chastising him, “Would you just leave him alone, give him the privacy you would want!”

He didn’t even care to look back at her to...