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Marek’s Zone (iii)
Vangie combated the eerie silence of the street, the neighborhood, and the moon by remembering as many of D.I. Collins’ zingers back in boot. If they were out of step while marching, Collins would...
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Marek’s Zone Finale (iv)
While it stood watching her, Vangie lay down on a pile of rubble, carefully framing the amorphous blob in her scope. She was almost wooed into believing that the shape froze, no more motion to be had,...
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Advert Friday: Look Away if You Must
Isabel: The Portals of Hellion, a return to old school pulp fiction, was written chiefly to get Isabel out of my head finally (and into this world). However, there are other characters who deserve...
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Andrei’s House (i)
Forward: This short series occurs before the narratives of Jane and Evangelina. Yeppers, they are occurring on the same Earth. What I am attempting to do is create various timelines to explore in my...
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Andrei’s House (ii)
Tom took the helm of his Ford Galaxy 500, pridefully smiling as the eight cylinders purred. Andrei had to know how a car from the 70s could be so well-kept, and so Tom began the whole spiel about his...
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Andrei’s House (iii)
The interior of the Robinson’s was much as Tom described. They entered into a large foyer area guarded by two ample tables where guests might receive drinks or victuals. Immediately to the left lurked...
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Andrei’s House: Finale
IV Andrei rolled Tom into the Galaxy’s passenger seat; the young bio-student was pale and unconscious. Bits of vomit hung on to his clothing, and Andrei was careful not to put his hand on the mess....
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The Collective from Kepler-69c
Fragmentary and deep. There is only a reaching.A need to reproduce is tantamount.We are expressed in various shapes.We have no attachment to blooms or caps.That the collective gets the “data” into...
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Oh, no. It’s ad day. Look away, look away :)
Isabel: The Portals of Hellion is a novel where I attempt to resurrect the old pulp-novel concept. Yes, I was heavily influenced by Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories, and also, I was heavily influenced...
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I, Claudia
Foreword: This face of the enemy is an homage to the 1951 novel entitled Day of the Triffids. This series that I am offering today actually is a reaction to the 60s film version of Day of the...
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I, Claudia (ii)
Foreword: Finished half of the Day of the Triffids book, and I am happy to report that the Triffids and Claudia are very different. In the picture above, Claudia spreads by sending out pollen on the...
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I, Claudia (iii-finale)
III. Submergence The final days came, and from the seats in the back of his own head, Bob saw himself eating the brains of his neighbors. He awoke exactly when he found himself lifting a heavy free...
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Carapace & Shadow
Forward: I think this bit of narrative poetry will be the first official document in the whole series that includes Meg, Jane, Vangie, Andrei, Bob, and the Collective and all my non-Ravorian poems. —...
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Prying into Vangie’s World: An Obsession with Sources
When we take a closer look at the world that “Marek’s Zone” occurs within, what we get is a moment when what is left of the U.S. military is attempting to respond to a faceless enemy with very strange...
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To the Shores of Lethe (i)
Forward: The Return. Seen that new movie yet? Odysseus wakes up on the shores of Ithaca, and with the journey behind him, struggles to bring the whole narrative toward an end. By the way… I don’t know...
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Warning!!!!
“To the Shores of Lethe (2)” will be posted on Tuesday–tomorrow!!! On the image: That’s what A.I. thinks Vangie looked like before recruit training
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To the Shores of Lethe (ii)
As it stands, we came out of the base of a tall cliff right down on some beautiful beach property. The waves roll in, the waves roll out. That swish-slap was fucking poetry. But I’m not buying it....
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“That business on Cato Neimoidia…”
Haha! Got ya!! Nope, it’s not a new chapter of Vangie (that’s Friday). Nope, it’s not Star Wars day.It’s yet another Ad day. Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been hard at work at the sequel even as I type...
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To the Shores of Lethe (iii)
Forward: Getting A.I. to make a non-LSD based picture of the tank in this story was an act of patience any saint would be envious of. Ending on a preposition, so what else is next now? Anyway, “I took...
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101
It was bound to happen at some point. 101. My favorite Depeche Mode album, but it’s also the number of subscribers who have subscribed to this unlikely blog as of yesterday. Oh, I do realize other...
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