The shining orb of burning fire began its slow descent into the earth. The atmosphere slowly filtering out the shorter, much hotter rays of light, gradually bringing the temperature down and shifting the neutral daylight to fiery dusk. The sky turned into tangerines and strawberries, and the clouds into cotton candy. Shadows stretched and contorted, distorting the world into a surreal landscape of...

“Tonight will be our last sunset. You will never see me again.” The strange ethereal inky cloud of smoke said in an echoey underwater voice.

“What? Why do you say that? Why are you always so dramatic?” The small unusual girl sitting next to it asked, almost flippant, trying to hide her concern. Her white hair shone gold in the sunset, her large pupil-less eyes reflected pearlescent. Her desert t...

What world is this? Nothing is familiar. Where is my comforting embrace of heat and sand and dry air? Was I dead? Was hell the opposite of everything ever described? Blinding white, icy demon fingers clawing, a dead hand gripping my lungs, particles of pale sky quickly turning to water on my skin. The stiffness of my fingers slowly extending to my wrists and from my toes up to my ankles, I must be...

He stumbled through the dense underbrush of the emerald green mountain. Cursing under his breath he picked himself up off the ground and trudged ahead. He desperately wished he had a brush-knife. His sword was too long and heavy and his dagger was too short. He cursed again as thorns ripped through his trousers into his thigh. He paused and looked up, trying to determine how much time he had befor...

A crashing downstairs woke me up. “Whatthefuck?!” I yelled, falling out of bed onto a pile of legos. “Fuckfuckfuckfuck!!” I rolled off the danger-zone to safety on the pile of dirty clothes next to it. Peeling the caltrops off my body I got up and looked around. Everything seemed normal. My girlfriend slept soundly on the right side of the bed, pausing her adorable coma with a few grunts and a sno...