Blas de Lezo had one eye, three legs, and a chunk missing from his left ear, and he was the best zombie protection a girl could ask for. A scraggly poodle with no tolerance for nonsense, he exuded an aura that kept not only zombies, but other dogs and other people away, and that’s how…… Continue reading Man’s Best Friend, Zombie’s Worst Enemy Part 1
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Mellow Winter: the larvae of the black soldier fly
The larvae of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) has many uses for human beings, and unlike other insects in the natural world around us, almost never causes horrifying death.
Bumraidyss
Hinkypunk was a will-o-wisp, known for glowing in the dark and leading wayward travelers to their doom, but more importantly, she was a human resources representative. A pair of thin black spectacles hung in the air above a petite black business suit. They pointed towards a clipboard as a disembodied voice struggled to pronounce a…… Continue reading Bumraidyss
Math class taught me that rules are to be broken
Math is all about rules, right? Immutable axioms come together to prove still more complex phenomena. Truth does not change with the times or with popular opinion, or even with new scientific insights. Some might find that comforting, others boring, but it wasn’t how I learned math. Let me tell you one of the first…… Continue reading Math class taught me that rules are to be broken
The Truth about Spirit Lifter (Revision 2)
The Ability of Gary Cudgel Revision 5: Added hints of Evamae’s fishing line trick (ten minutes) Trimmed down to 2484 words (2 hours) The Truth about Spirit Lifter From the desk of Lance Corporal Philip Silver, USMC, Retired You have no reason to trust me, but finally the relevant parties have passed, and I am…… Continue reading The Truth about Spirit Lifter (Revision 2)
The Truth about Spirit Lifter
This is the fourth revision of “The Ability of Gary Cudgel”, and the big deal here is that I had my official reviewers group look at it. They identified directly what my friend may have been intuiting when he suggested I add more political commentary. There was really hardly anything at all in the previous…… Continue reading The Truth about Spirit Lifter
The End of Infinity Part 4
“Boys,” Sarah-Maybeline said with a knowing look on her delicate features. She sat on Vanessa’s bed, her long dress bunched up beneath her. Vanessa sat at her desk and kept her head down on her math homework. “You know,” Sarah-Maybeline said, “you should really go for this football thing.” “Why on Earth would I do…… Continue reading The End of Infinity Part 4
The End of Infinity Part 3
Vanessa’s panic attack, as Dr. Saunder explained it, turned out to be an isolated occurrence. In five years, she had not had another case of feeling like time had stopped and the air was no longer responding to attempts to breathe or move it, and this was so much for the better. Boys didn’t tend…… Continue reading The End of Infinity Part 3
The End of Infinity Part 2
Vanessa Koltrane lived a routine life with her family in a little town near the Adirondack mountains. When her school changed its dress code to allow girls to wear pants, she asked her mother to buy her a pair of blue jeans, but was sternly rebuked and sent to her room. She stared out of…… Continue reading The End of Infinity Part 2
The Sympathetic Universe Part 25
Eloy remembered. Hesitantly, he sloughed off his decrepit old body. He reached out to Gabriel, who at this point it was needless to say was not in Hell. “That was a terrible game,” they agreed. Gabriel’s god chimed in, “Eloy, it was fine until your god wrecked it.” “That game was WRECKED from the START,”…… Continue reading The Sympathetic Universe Part 25
Samuel Munk 