by Jim Stitzel | Jul 28, 2024 | Stories
The boats on the river. Each is adorned with a unique array of finery, showing off the arts and skills of the designers that decorated it. One boat is a forest scene, complete with lifelike woodland animals. Another is a field, with crops growing in rows. Still...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 27, 2024 | Stories
Beware the cornfields. Sinister spirits flock there at night, barely luminous among the stalks and leaves. They have faces of women, eyes bleeding pungent tears, teeth like knives. Their bodies are phantoms, tapering off until there is nothing there. They look out at...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 26, 2024 | Stories
It is an abomination. A creature straight out of nightmare. It has the head and body of a cat, the tail of a scorpion, legs of a spider, and claws like a lobster. It skitters across the ceiling of the ancient, buried temple, seemingly unaware of gravity. There is very...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 25, 2024 | Stories
Awe-inspiring. The nova was a brilliant, glorious phenomenon, all red and blue energy as the white dwarf star suctioned matter from its red supergiant companion. Then it blasted off in a furious explosion, creating a gaseous cloud visible throughout the galaxy....
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 24, 2024 | Stories
And then there was one. For forever, that is, for the entire length of recorded time, the multiverse expanded into trillions of disparate universes. Each was separated from the others by the slimmest barrier of cosmic energy. The universes existed inside their own...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 23, 2024 | Stories
“Full moon tonight.” “Yup.” “You know what that means….” “Yup. Werewolves.” “No, silly. Moon sprites.” “Moon… sprites.” “Yes, moon sprites!” “What are moon...
