a wee bit different than my normal fare. A fella gets shat on by lady luck and pulls his head out. Twice. More philosophical than I've ever done before.
An ordinary man gets hit so often by whimsy's slap that nothing seems real or accountable any more. Great wealth is had for the asking and many changes occur in the character's doom. Tony, the protagonist, nearly goes mad as his viewpoint is whipsawed between viewpoints and abilities. I fear that only a reader of the old testament will be able to follow this, but here we go...
with a knuckle to the forehead to CMSIX, I give you a story of a man rescued by aliens from a collapsed building, rebuilt and left with little more than his skin on a primitive planet to live or die. He has a haversack and that's all.
A little profile written for a superhero universe. It hangs together so nicely that I thought I'd publish it on its own. Gamers, make free to use it for a character.
Many authors have envisioned a device to cause spontaneous orgasms. Woody Allen's "Sleeper" is an example. This is my take on a famous Sci-Fi author's story.
An orphaned boy is adopted by an old rancher and his retired schoolteacher wife, deep in the Utah wilderness. Nearly self-educated thanks to a huge book collection he discovers an abandoned platinum mine. Nobody ever told him there were no such things as ghosts.
Vic buys an old rebuilt monastery up in the California mountains that nobody seems to want. What secrets remain hidden in the old stone building? What has been driving people away? Reposted to add texture
...impersonal, judging, murderous. When judged by their own strict codex, they failed as well. Before culling themselves they left what remained of mankind with a gift.
Imagine a life form traveling between worlds as a parasite, changing the host to something grossly different. Imagine being a wealthy man that bathed in an isolated warm pool and his loss of control as he is consumed from within...