by Jim Stitzel | Jan 4, 2013 | Stories
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series The Clockwork DesolationThe book lies on a table. Its pages are torn, tattered. The ink is faded, in places almost nonexistent. What ink remains, however, tells a chilling story. On the left-hand page is a diagram, the chemical...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 16, 2012 | Stories
This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series The Clockwork DesolationThe weapons bay is a shambles. Steamer trunks are strewn about the floor. Many are broken, lids gaping wide. Most of the trunks are empty, the ordnance they once carried having long been delivered to...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 16, 2012 | Stories
This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series The Clockwork DesolationThe dirigible floats a hundred fifty metres above red dust and twisted metal. Engines that haven’t fired in a dog’s age are corroded and quiet, and the craft wanders the sky aimlessly, the shifting air...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 18, 2012 | General
This is a very nicely done short sci-fi/horror flick that capitalizes on the psychological factor of the genre and avoids unnecessary gore. VESSEL – A short film by Clark Baker from Clark Baker on Vimeo. VESSEL is a very ambitious scifi / horror short in the...
by Jim Stitzel | May 23, 2012 | Stories
The tiny craft’s re-emergence into real space was unremarkable in every way. No flash of light to mark the rift it tore in the black, no radio or gravity waves, and even the EM radiation typical to subspace travel was dampened so as to be indistinguishable from the...