I've recently been reading "Burning down the haus" by Tim Mohr about punks in East berlin and it inspired me to write this tribute to anyone who chooses to live life on their own terms and to rise aga...
The mountain was laughing at me. A mocking laugh, insulting, and derogatory. I spent more and more of my days staring at it from afar in my home, seething. Somehow in spite of my anger and embarrassme...
The space station was grey. Grey people in grey suits worked away their grey lives away within its grey hulls and walls. They mined grey minerals from grey asteroids. Every aspect of their lives was w...
One morning the sun rose to shine its light on a peculiar sight. A cow was up a tree. It was not resting its front legs on a low hanging branch, nor had it rolled off a cliff to land in the tree as th...
The archaeologist was knackered. He had been awake for twenty-four hours and there was still no end in sight. Exhausted, he fumbled some coins into the hotel's coffee machine. An error message flashed...
Planetary design was my dream job. Cushy, well paid, and plenty of satisfaction. I mean, I sat at a computer designing aesthetically pleasing planets for the super-rich, raking in big money for the pl...
We had been at sea for months. Tensions were running high as we were caught between the great emptiness of the ocean and the confines of being so close to the same few souls all day every day. We were...
The painter painted pictures and watched them move. Painted trees swayed in painted wind. Painted children played in painted streets. A painted sea lapped at a painted beach. Painted stars twinkled...
"Today is the same as yesterday. Yesterday was the same as the day before that, and so on for however long it is that you've had me trapped here. I'm stuck in an endless, repeating loop." "No you aren...
My heart pounded at my chest as I sped up the staircase to get to the roof. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck," I yelled. Not much else to say when there are dozens of undead zombies gnashing at your heels really. I...
She was an actress, he was a mob boss, it could never work. Her spotlight would shine to brightly on his activities, and his activities would affect her career. But he refused to let her go. Instead, ...