Things between you and I haven’t been the same since that lovely fall of 2004. We’ve traveled since; we’ve made love since, and we’ve shared hundreds of quality meals. None of it as sweet as our honeymoon.

I can’t begin to count the number of times we’ve either watched films or television or one of us has read a novel that dealt directly with what we are going through.

Still, we stubbornly don...

It’s the middle of November and I’m trudging through three feet of snow because, much to my dismay, bodies don’t just bury themselves.

My feet are cold, but my toes are colder, and that is just too fucking much. It was the straw that broke my figurative back. I dropped to my knees, releasing my grip on the carcass behind me. I let out an exasperated yelp that I didn’t realize I’d actually done u...

When I finally spoke it was with a quiver, an apparent unsteadiness in my voice. Seeing you standing at the doorway even with a screen door between us, made me freeze.

My jaw locked up and my heart began racing. I didn’t know what to say. I felt like my mouth wouldn’t comply even if I tried. Then I gave myself a few seconds to think about it; and to feel how I felt. Then what to say to you came ...

The wind slipped almost quietly between the buildings that remained in the plaza, whispering tales of death and decay on its passage. The largest of the skyscrapers, the ones that formed the Exchange, showed no signs of doing any business, if anything it appeared as though these old buildings had cashed out many years ago.

If you were wise, you wanted no business with them.

Trash still covered...

In that moment last Friday night, we didn’t care about our clean new tennis shoes. We didn’t care about the years of hearing stories of people taking their life and being haunted at the old Avery Gorge Bridge. We didn’t care that it hadn’t been crossed by train in at least 20 years, and probably had missing or failing members.

We didn’t care whether that dark thing with deep burning orange eyes ...

As God watched, millennia tumbled by aimlessly, much like a stone chipped free from a cliff and bouncing down a rock covered face. It splashed when it hit the water. The plume left in it’s wake resembled the bombs which ended the previous species.

The sun looked on daily, exhaustedly.

Revolution then revolution then reformation and back to reactions again.

The sun grew weary of seeing men sq...

In the mid afternoon sun, Daphne walked, shoulders obviously sulking, though the mostly empty field behind Potter’s Ranch. She was flanked by several trees which were scattered throughout the valley and appeared to be standing guard for intruders like herself. The field sloped up relatively gently on both sides to a hill, meeting in the middle to form a small drainage channel, which she now walked...

There really wasn’t enough time to hang around after the job was done. Cheyenne had just rounded the corner before the first siren sounded, and her black sweats were making a swishing noise as the sheen pant legs rubbed together at a much faster than usual, faster than on her morning walks. The noise was lost on her, she didn’t hear much of anything, only focused on what she could see ahead of her...

“I’ll be Chuck E, you can be Mickey” said Evan, the loud crack of a 12oz can following his comment. “You can be Minnie, the cops would get a good laugh at least”. Darrel quipped back without hesitation.

The recliner cried out for help as Evan briefly leaned back even further before getting up to do his best Minnie Mouse routine. “Heyo folks get your hiney’s down on the ground or you’ll make like...

Thrusters eased their force as the ship approached the surface of Varion-3. Captain June cast her gaze down upon the desolate surface which was littered with dark brown stones and sand kicking up around the landing site, an old air traffic facility.

A voice came from across the glass-walked room. “The landing ramp has been deployed ma’am, you can now head for the exit if you would like.” She mut...