The light of an infinite array of stars fell through the moonless atmosphere of a cool planet, finishing its long, lonely voyage across the cosmos to illuminate Brynton’s mountains in silvers for a pair of ancient eyes. Elessi tasted the air, then shifted her gaze to the western horizon, where the expanse was being devoured […]
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Florida: Day zero.
At twenty-two hundred I leave metro Atlanta in my rented pickup, chasing a blood red crescent moon towards my battered homeland. I stop in Columbus, Georgia, at a waffle house, for what I assume might be the last hot meal for a while. The waitress is friendly, curious about my pilot uniform. Sheepishly I explain […]
Epoch
Mister Callais had begun his shift 262,973 hours ago, plus some odd minutes and seconds that he whimsically didn’t bother to count. Hour 262,973.4 found him strolling along the outer deck, as he often did, tail swinging behind him in relaxed counterpoise to his balanced gait. As he passed the twentieth station, bulkhead 24B, he […]
State of the Fox
The tidal forces of time and opportunity are fickle masters, capable of creating opportunity from nothing, and rendering nothing from great possibility. Ten years ago this week, I was with the love of my life in the mountains surrounding the Russian River. We were together, and all the world was ours. 3,648 days ago. 3,607 […]
Flotsam
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