Captain Jefferson
Captain Jefferson smiled as she hoisted the flag, with its skull and crossed bones warning others to keep clear. Yet she hoped that the blue background of the flag would speak to other writers. For blue is the colour of…
Yip’s Story
Yip felt the breath of life ebbing away. She had known sadness, known fear. She had felt the heat of many summers. Seen her young grow into warriors. A story teller she knew all the stories of the tribe. Her…
The Village
Open to the stars, it appeared easy. Dom studied the snow covered scene, wondering where were the footprints. The snow was to pristine, there was even no evidence of wild life tracks. In Dom’s view wild life only stayed away…
Just Like That
Solomon Ward allowed his veranda chair to swing, the gentle moment at least stirred the harsh heat of the desert. Slowly the pieces of an idea where coming together. An idea that would make Solomon and his family fabulously wealthy.…
The News Today
Here lies Mr Acharya baker extraordinaire. He died in the prime of his life. He was found sitting holding a tray of fancies. The work of his two former indentured trainees. The baking tray was missing two fancies. Later today…
A hard life
“The boy must learn mother”. “But he is so young”. “You are never to young mother, you taught me that”. The bakery was in full swing, in the corners, sacks of flour piled high, turned white with with flour dust.…
The hair cut
I was fed up with looking like a shaggy dog, fed up with smelling like a cess pit, fed up with wearing my dirty army uniform. But worst of all I was fed up with seeing my pals blown to…
It could happen
The earth’s 501 AI’s had spoken as one. Christmas was banned. Instead humanity was to be allowed to complete in interactive games against the AI’s. Amber looked at her collection of Christmas items. She wondered about placing them in a…