“Thesis,” “Antithesis,” and “Synthesis”

Thesis Hey girl, You have a pretty face. I mean your face is beautiful. I mean you are beautiful. I’m looking at you ‘cause it makes me happy, You’ve…


The Lord’s Work

His car comes to a stop and he sits with eyes forward, hands at ten and two. The speakers blast some kind of chaotic synth music created by an insane…


Reclamation

I. 144 pods plummeted from the sky. One man was secured in each ten-foot metal cylinder. Twelve squads, every squad with three fire teams, in every…


Progress, Part 3

VI. You wake up in a cold sweat. You’ve been having strange, vivid dreams for weeks now, always in some kind of forest, always involving a…


Progress, Part 2

IV. You are 17 years old. You are just under six feet tall, well-muscled from years of exertion, not as heavyset as the older men but lean, with…


Progress, Part 1

I. It is the Current Year. You live in a three-bedroom apartment with five other thirty-year-old programmers, provided to you by your generous…