Part 1: The Memory
Some things people say, stay with us for a lifetime. Perhaps it's because the ideas or messages they wish to convey in that moment, hold such significant meaning to us, that they actually break through the various inner shields we cover ourselves with, and embed themselves deep into our souls forever. For each and ev...
Is it here to bring devestation?
Peering above, you see it’s rippling, ripe with life
“Hello O Monsoon. What are your intentions “
The monsoon rumbles
“From above, I bring forth the wrath of sea
How much longer I hold it in, I’m not sure
Run forth human, take your family and flee
For I am the Wondeous Monsoon, hear my burr
If I strike you, know I hold no evil
I do what is done, I do not long for ...
That was it. The crew tried to snag him when the cable snapped, but it was hopeless. He started spinning and kept spinning, no friction to stop him.
Spinning back in time. On the swingset in his backyard in Iowa. Higher and higher he went. He would spend hours swinging, trying to touch the sky. One day he tried something new.
It started with a little push of his Buster Browns on the worn dirt ...
My friends and I were half way to the top of the mountain. It only took us about 3 hours with lots of whining Winnie's. It was like a nonstop orchestra of complaints from every single one of them. At hour 2 and a half I snapped, I just couldn't handle the negative Nellie's constantly bringing down the mood. Granted we haven't been on a hike in a long time but still come on.
So it was silent for ...
A postbox appeared overlooking the landscape a portal to another world it’s red light was flashing
It, I approached it cautiously wanting where it would take me or whether what I would do when I entered into it
Red light made me feel that it was some kind of a doomsday device
I went into it. It was cracked and it was hot and horrible.
I saw a phone number old one not a mobile
I dialled any numb...
The looming light of the booth has a sound. It has a smell. The stench of iron, like fresh shed blood, churned my stomach. The feeling of the muscles in my core contracting forced me to turn away, the fear of puking overcoming my curiosity for this strange structure. I couldn't keep myself from looking away for long. With a grimace, I turned back to the booth, looming at the edge of the cliff like...
The clouds opened up and dumped what seemed like months of rain stored up.
Hmm, he thought, A little too on point?
With his stomach in knots, white knuckling the wheel, he drove towards the house of his partner? Lover? Friend? He sighed, guess that would be another conversation they needed to have.
This was the first time he’d even considered telling anyone about his powers, let alone made a ...
August 12, 2026
My name is not important. I work at the GSC office in Raleigh, NC. I’ll explain everything as soon as I can. My PDA is damaged and low on battery. But I don’t know how long I can continue to update on the situation. They’re outside my-
August 13, 2026
I managed to avoid capture, thank God. But they’re still after me. My house is compromised and I’m currently sitting just outside...
Suffocated. Smothered. Strangled by the ever present, ever expanding crowd of people that now inhabit the growing metropolis I call home. I spend my days fenced in by an overburdened infrastructure that was not designed to sustain a populace of this magnitude. Lakeview was a small, some would say sleepy, little town that boasted a population of a little under 10,000 residents. Most recent counts s...
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