Paul was very unhappy for a majority of his life. In fact he was so accustomed to feeling miserable that any other feeling felt almost alien to him. The only thing in his life that brought relief was doing his job, driving trains. He remembered being a boy and spending his summers on the tracks riding around with his father. He loved the guys his dad worked with, he loved the smell of the engine when he would first get off and he loved the sound of the wheels running along the track. The thin...

Father stood over a lifeless and ruined landscape. The memory of his greatest creation’s ruination brought tears to his eyes. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, not this time. Now the planet floats once again as a shattered life force. Father sat down on a scorched stump and wept. Gaia came over and put her arm around Father attempting to comfort him. “Hey… Father you tried your best” “I know,” he said through his cries. “You knew they were almost certainly a doomed life form...

I am old; I’ve existed for so long I can’t even remember where it all started. I was here long before Father Time wrote the first words in his endless book. I taught Death how to send his first soul through the great loop. I raised Mother Earth from infancy into womanhood. When she bore her daughter Gaia I helped her plant the stream of life. But I’m tired; it’s hard living so long. I know that one day it might end. I’ll be ready long before that day reaches me. I’ll be around lon...

I remember the way it all started almost ten years ago. It seems almost yesterday that I was attending my high school graduation Class of 2012. When the North Pole split in two. That was when the old one escaped from his prison. When nightfall fell over the planet. At first no one knew what had caused the great split in the pole but everything seemed to be fine. No great rises in temperature or the earth’s magnetics. The experts of the world agreed that it was just a fluke and they would pr...

What is it about daylight that quells men’s fears? Do they believe that the sun will actually protect them? Is killing the enemy any different during the day. Do they deal with the possibility of death easier in the day? Well I really don’t give a damn we attack the Germans at midnight tonight. For Christ sakes they’re only lightly armed officers and totally unaware. They seemed to be more concerned with the affections of a waitress. However when I look into the men’s faces you’d th...

Father stood over a lifeless and ruined landscape. The memory of his greatest creation’s ruination brought tears to his eyes. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, not this time. Now the planet floats once again as a shattered life force. Father sat down on a scorched stump and wept. Gaia came over and put her arm around Father attempting to comfort him. “Hey… Father you tried your best” “I know,” he said through his cries. “You knew they were almost certainly a doomed life form...

The Garden By David Nordahl Mike Logan takes a smoke from the pack. He’d bought the house only yesterday. The furniture wouldn’t arrive until tomorrow. He puffs and grimaced at another night in his sleeping bag. Mike knew he couldn’t go to a motel. The thieves would steal from him if he did anything that stupid. Mike drops the cigarette and goes inside. The inside of the house is grand both in scale and needed repairs. Mike knows how to do most of the work himself. Of the few things he...