In this dystopian world, the people are the dystopia. They walk around with hand sanitizer, tissues and full face masks so they never feel the sun. They remind me of vampires. When I first arrived here from the 1980s this all made sense. In my time, vanity was everything, especially if you were rich. This has become something else. You don’t have to be rich, the government insists the people stay ...

Silence as pride grows to a poisonous peak and arms ego with destructive power. Inaction as greed surpasses one’s empathy. Self control failing as lust eclipses actual love for others. Quiet as envy rises to choke the humanity out of the jealous. Doing nothing as glutton overwhelms rational thinking. Preaching peace to the innocent as the wrath of others takes over their minds. Succumbing to sloth...

The clock struck five

And we were off to the start

I ran all I could

Then the pain in my heart

I fell over the finish line

Won my first place

I marveled at my medal

The blood left my face

As my wife held my hand

All thoughts left my head

I saw the angels weeping

I’d won, but I’m dead...

I heard the scraping from the other side of the wall

I turned away and I hoped to flee

I heard the scraping from the wall I realize, too late, it was from inside of me...

Damn! Oliver jumped over that red Porsche while that other dude, Jim, maybe I heard him shout over the horns of impatient traffic, shot at him. It was an exhilarating morning and it wasn't even eight. The gunshots were still ringing in ears as I turned the corner into the office. Jim was running after Oliver, jumping over other really expensive seeming cars. They exchanged gunfire as they hid behi...

It was, well I’m not a poet, it was beautiful. Beauty beyond description. I approached it, slowly, being cautious as we were trained to be. The air was thick but according to my sensors, it was breathable, a little tough on the lungs but had the right mixture to do the job right. I slowly removed my helmet and after a few moments of trepidation I took some deep breaths.

The air smelled like a n...

We were swimming outside in Cleveland

On a warm muggy Christmas day

We were skiing in Hawaii, snorkeling in Maine

Oh how we did play

Surf was up in New York, we went sledding in Arizona

On that muggy, and hot Christmas day

The dolphins cried to warn us, we did not listen

We were too busy having fun to hear what they had to say

As the storms came crashing down, we w...

As the tree fades and the leaves begin to fall

They start to degrade on the lawn

The worms eat the leaves

The birds eat the worms, all before a quarter to dawn...

My journey from the abyss was filled with fear and dread. Tired, driven to madness, and the hunger pains my insides. I pull myself into the pale moonlight, looking for the witch who summoned me. I see her, at the opening of my former prison. She seems lovely but I am ravenous, I am wary from the long road back, and the thirst has driven me mad. I must feed....

By the time the UFOs landed Lara knew it was over. Thousands of years of human civilization down the drain. The president gave up without so much as a whimper. No nukes fired, not even a surface to air missile. Nothing! He just turned it all over. This followed all over the world, as if all the leaders in the world already had a retirement plan ready. She knew this would happen, she knew five year...