Rini-chan looked at the tiny flash drive in her hand. Then she looked at the USB port someone had installed in the back of one of Ford’s computers. She read the instructions in her other hand, stuck the drive in the port and pushed the tiny jeweled button on the end that wasn’t connected. The entire thing lit up as it did whatever it was programmed to do. “Mom, if…
Time: Somewhere around 1985 and 2302. Place: England He remembered running. Something was behind him, chasing him. He remembered cussing mentally because somewhere in his headlong run, he’d lost his gun. Gun. Why would he carry a gun? Why would he be upset that he had lost one? He lay there in the crisp white room, between crisp white sheets and listened to the beep, beep, beep of the…
Ed reached into his stubborn adherence to who and what he was, fighting the insidious voice in his head. Yes, he would love to have a weapon to use against the aliens, something to chase them away and make them never come back again. But what he saw in this monster’s eyes, in Virginia’s; no. This was not the way, to become more of a monster than he already was….
The aliens took the man out of his wheelchair and dragged him from his modest home. Back through the lawns and into the wooded grassy park nearby where they had landed. Since his maid wouldn’t be in until the morning time, the abduction was successful. The poor crippled old man moaned and slobbered at the mouth, crying in vain against the cold hearted Frankensteins, who were dressed in red and…
Waiting as water trickles trails in shattered splintered silken lies sliding down barriers of sullen rain Separate, I stand hand hidden. Waiting wondering as creation wriggles, rosebud lips suckling seeking unformed unpractised sounds slip across barriers of protection Separate, I stand hand on glass Waiting as empty echoes isolate shattered creation Separated now I stand. My treacherous hand betrayed me with one blow. LtCdr 07.05.2011
“Here, Commander,” the staff nurse pointed at the fine, dotted line, just as the church bells across the road chimed ten times. Distracted he placed his scrawl underneath the official discharge form, waited for his copy and folded it into his breastpocket, while he walked out of the hospital. His stay at Mayland had been perfunctory, making sure he was unharmed by the lack of oxygen during that submarine accident…
It’s a bland room, with walls in an indefinable hue of palest mauve, or perhaps it’s taupe. I was never very good at colours. Either way it fades into the distance, one of those shades that seems to draw back the more you stare at it. They probably paid some psychologist to tell them what colour to use, something restful they would have said; we want something calming and soothing….
WARNINGS: slight sexual innuendos, some violence 16:30 The drive to the docks took longer than expected. Traffic was heavy as they went through town to arrive at the correct area. The SHADO mobile unit was equipped to go overland and was slow by comparison on the road. Davidson, one of Ford’s people, greeted Straker as he joined the mobile crew. “We’re still not triangulated. Ferrales is working on it. Ford’s…
Tags: atheism, religious references Garbage. That was all that was left now. We’d picked over the scraps, sent anything of any useable size back to HQ for analysis, cleared the site, written the interim reports. But there had been very little to retrieve. Disintegrating alien craft tend to be fairly destructive and this was not just one exploding UFO. There were several of them. It was a miracle that…
23:56 pm Ford poked his head into Straker’s office looking worried. Not all that unusual. “Yes?” Ed responded quickly. “Security, sir. Col. Freeman left the premises over an hour ago. His car’s in the lot still, along with his gun sitting on the bonnet.” Galvanized Ed was on the phone to security for a full report. Within minutes he was at the scene and was as baffled as his security…