by Jim Stitzel | Jun 3, 2024 | Stories
The rain started today. Again. And it wasn’t just a little sprinkle, either. It was a positive deluge, as is normal on this planet. We have 240 days in our yearly cycle, and it rains here for 239 of those days. We get one day of dry and sunny every year, and I...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 2, 2024 | Stories
“The next 30 minutes will change everything!” I shouted, as the vortex whirled and swirled in front of us. We’d created the thing using archaic technology that somehow came together to form a whirlpool of light — purple and pink and orange. We...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 1, 2024 | General
I have loved speculative fiction ever since I can remember. As a kid I was reading on a grown-up level by the time I was in fifth grade, so I was reading novels by Dean Koontz and Stephen King, Nelson DeMille, and a whole host of others. Not everything I read at that...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 27, 2019 | Stories
He sat before his workbench, looking at his heart lying on the workspace before him. The steel mechanism that sustained his life lay open like a book, hinge at the back, clasp at the front (currently undone), gears and other clockwork mechanisms turning and clicking...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 22, 2018 | Stories
Klaxons. Klaxons everywhere. Truly this was it. It was the dead of night, of course. They never attacked during the day. That was too obvious, and we’d see them coming a mile away — on a cloudless day. (And even on overcast days, they always mysteriously...
