The day is bittersweet for Lesha as she stands by the Harlem River near dawn, near the old navy yards. Today’s the day she gets to return “home,” to leave the city which has been her home away from home for many long, almost-human years. By this time, she’s more than “earned her wings.” She’s […]
Click the floating frog to join. The earth has gone quiet and still. The last ambulance siren screamed goodbye over a day ago. It doesn’t matter. The latest news announcement grimly doubted that any of us will survive for long. We sit on plastic lawn chairs, sharing a bottle of tequila. “You always said you […]
“What’s in that box?” Schrodinger’s wife Anna asked him one day. “It smells like something died in there.” “It’s an experiment, Anna. You wouldn’t understand.” Maybe not, but the only thing a man likes more than telling a woman she’s wrong is proving how right he is. Sure enough, he continued talking. “There’s this guy […]
“We really need to find some other place to meet,” Susan says, sniffing distastefully at the air. “But this is the place the Goddess revealed to us in a vision.” Meghan says. “She might not have meant this swamp – or any swamp. It could all be symbolic.” “For crying out loud,” Xavier says. “Let’s […]
Excerpts from a public notice board in the not-so-distant future. Down with undead monsters!!! Ever since the rise of Resurrection Technology, the world has run amok with undead “pets.” Skeletal and zombie predators represent a serious danger to our ecosystem. They must be stopped! Resurrection Technology for all! Skeletons don’t kill people. Bad skeleton trainers […]
Another Sunday post borrowed shamelessly from XKCD. I think this one might actually be scientifically accurate due to being written by an actual scientist doing science stuff. It looks like the kind of thing that would happen in 2021.
It’s against the rules. I’m only here to observe. But, I have to. Running over, I grab the reins and tie them to the edge of the post just in time for the reluctant law officer to jump on the horse and…. He doesn’t really want to chase down the person he’s been tasked to […]
Apparently, I accidentally scheduled my Friday post for Thursday and now I don’t want to take it down because so many people said nice things about it. But, I don’t want to break my WordPress streak. I might be a tad obsessive. Also today (Thursday but scheduling for tomorrow) I got my first Moderna shot […]
For most of the world, it’s just another day, another field to tend, another cow to milk. For one horrified mother, it is the worst day of her life. She knew this day would come, that it had to come, but not now. Not today. He is her child, her only child, a miracle child […]
Click on the Frog to join! We didn’t know when we would reach our new home. There would be a ring of light against the sky, they said. Drifting, drifting for what seems like forever, me and my siblings, floating on an endless river, Finally it starts, the ships in front of me shifting from […]
Anne Higa 