Clare stared out the window, gazing at the neon-colored city when she heard the door slam open, the nightly dose of misery (the evening news) droning on in the back of her mind as her on-again, off-again boyfriend (sort of) charged in. All other functions and internet browsing came to a halt; she could see it in his eyes. Well, she could see eyes that weren’t his. She turned the news back on, paid...

“Magic comes with a price, are you willing to pay?” Manny still remembered these words, though they felt distant now, having lost some of their weight perhaps. There was a time when the words screamed through his ears with each price paid, with each loved one given—only when necessary, of course. Most magic was free, but not the good stuff; the good stuff was never free. He thought back to when he...

Here I fight, here I fall

I killed a medicine man

I’ll probably do it again, fuck them all

I killed a medicine man

No way now I’ll ever be with you

I killed a medicine man

I miss drinking with you, long until the moon stood tall

So I killed another medicine man

I still smell your drunk ghost sleeping there on the bar wall

You loved all the medicine men

You hoped they could put an end to our sad dr...

There, the incredibly talented man sat atop his well-made, organized floating tower, looking down on the chaos he had caused. The unmanned, automatic plasma-shooting arachnids seemed to be working wonderfully on their first field test. The people on this gross, dead, over-polluted dwarf planet seemed to be taking the eradication well. Their blue beams of destructive energy were pointlessly trained...