Chase had to stop for breath at the mouth of the subway exit, sucking in air as though he had forgotten how to do it automatically. Breathe in. Breathe out. His heart felt like some untameable thing in his chest, struggling for its own freedom, but he knew it wasn’t because he had very nearly… [Read more…]
December 29, 2011
III. Now that you’re gone you’re safe in my head again And I can hold you, a pure and pretty idea, untainted by fear. I can let you die in my arms, an apology on your lips Whispering about the things that should have been done While I cradle your head and curse circumstance. In… [Read more…]
November 24, 2011
This snippet comes from the same story as this one. The main character, Adrian (although he is never named), is the same between them. “I need a smoke,” he groaned. She didn’t look up from the papers she was reading. “That’s a vestigial response,” she said. “Ignore it. Eventually your soul will forget the body’s… [Read more…]
November 24, 2011
“Bells”, Howie said in exasperation, “These printed plates are full of nonsense.” “They are not,” the captain replied, not even looking up from the starchart he was annotating. “I beg to differ!” The first mate stormed towards his captain’s table, and dropped half a dozen printouts onto it with a clatter. “Have a look: ‘MUCH… [Read more…]
June 25, 2011
I figured I’d better update this thing, since I realised this week, to my horror, that I actually linked the blog in the bio I sent in to Ceriph several months back. And its been published. So, if you’re here because you followed a link from the back of Ceriph, hello and welcome. This blog… [Read more…]
February 16, 2011
“Call a cab,” the woman said. He looked. It was a number on a scrap of paper. “That’s it? You’re not going to help me?” The witch patiently rubbed her papery fingers together. “Taxis are my eyes and ears. They prowl the streets everywhere, all the time, even in the night when the buses are… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
He kept a black box on his desk, a small cube hooked to a large beeping monitor like an ECG, as though it were keeping alive a tiny and fragile animal. “What’s that?” she had asked, a visiting niece from another faculty, gesturing at the box and its attendant jumble of machinery. “It’s a micro… [Read more…]
January 21, 2011
They had dinner dates in fast food restaurants at opposite ends of the world. It was his idea. He’d call the day before, or at some point during what passed for her morning, and make arrangements. It was a cute conceit, shared gastronomic experience separated by the miles and li between them. The easy availability… [Read more…]
January 21, 2011
I don’t usually do fanfiction, not any more. But this one is my half of a fanfic-swap I arranged with Sarah Coldheart to help her fulfill her New Years’ resolution to write some fanfic this year. She’d write me some Angry Birds fic, and I’d write her Tron:Legacy fic in return. In my original review of T:L,… [Read more…]
January 11, 2011
“It’s weird,” she said, carefully walking the grid on the triple-S. “But there’s someone else here. Is that supposed to happen?” “Who is it?” asked the voice over her earpiece. “It’s that guy, the Ninth Doctor. No, wait, not the ninth– the guy who came after him. The tenth one, he was really popular. What… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
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