This Army

I ignored the loudmouth.  I’ve suffered worse than some schmo yelling at a movie theater screen.  I felt sure he would quiet down once the picture actually started. Down front, however, someone else wasn’t quite so tolerant.  The theater didn’t have handicapped...

Love of Halloween

Halloween is my favorite time of the year.  The nights are cooler and longer, for one thing.  Bugs have mostly packed it in for the winter.  Leaves are changing color if they haven’t gone all autumnal already.  Best of all, I get to leave off the theater makeup, cut...

Christmas is a Long Night

Eric spent Halloween eyeballing some would-be wizards at a Halloween party on one of the mundane Earth-worlds. Whatever happened to that? Well… I, on the other hand, simply stood by, watching and waiting as they worked themselves to exhaustion. I was more than a...

Halloween, 1956

I remember when I was in the late October of 1956.  One of them, anyway.  I was staying in a quiet little neighborhood reminiscent of my old place, when I lived in the Ardent farmhouse.  I was looking to sit quietly and think, maybe recapture a little of the...

Christiana

The Debriefing Three figures stood in darkness, the points of a triangle, above the circle of light.  The subject of their scrutiny looked up and spun slowly, regarding each in turn.  She paused when one of the figures spoke, voice reverberating slightly in the...

Ants

Ants everywhere. The crawling little bastards bite and sting.  I suspect they also have a type of ultrasonic communication—I think I can almost hear some sort of high-pitched tone.  It’s more of a feeling around my inner ear, rather than something I can actually hear....

Hobbies: Pre and Post “Mortem”

As a junior professor of physics and computer science, Eric used to enjoy going to parties with grad students so he could watch them drink too much, with the usual levels of mirth associated with that.  Afterward, he drove people home and poured them into their...

Vladimir’s BattleChess

All the normal rules of chess apply, except where altered below.  Pieces move the same ways, capturing pieces involves entering their square, and so on. Every piece should be represented by an individual combatant. When a piece attempts to move into the square of an...

ECM

Elven Creation Myth Terrible First Draft (a.k.a. “Word Vomit”) Version Rendu was one of the Heru, and widely accepted as the master of all craftsmen.  There were others of the Heru who possessed greater strength, or speed, or skill at arms; but none could match the...

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