fiction

  • The Blood River

    200 years into the future, the world had largely become a vast desert. Every last hectare of rainforest had been burned to the ground nearly 40 years prior to make way for the growing demand for meat consumption and a burgeoning herd of hungry mouths to feed. Meat production became increasingly infeasible due to the… Continue reading

  • Mother, May I?

    Penny Lee Babblestone only lived for two things in her life: her cats and the TV program Mother, May I? In many ways, Penny was a self-assured, independent woman who lived off of her late husband’s pocketbook and her monthly retirement checks. She had curly, mousey-brown hair, huge round glasses that made her eyes look like an… Continue reading

  • The Tale of Lesbidit

    Virginia City, Nevada was a mining town that took root during the peak of the gold rush that boomed in the later half of the 19th century. Men from across the country flooded the town’s brass-colored dirt streets in droves, hoping that maybe they would be lucky enough to strike gold.  By 1874, production in Virginia City… Continue reading