“Hey Boss,” Casey’s voice crackled through the speakers in the cargo bay, “you might want to hold on. It’s going to get a bit bumpy. “How bumpy?” Avalon already started scrambling to secure the turtle and herself into one of the chairs that lined the walls. In response, the ship rolled into a cascade of wild maneuvers. Anything that hadn’t been secured now flew around, clattering and crashing into everything else. Outside, she could hear the muffled wump of chaff…
Benjamin yawned as he returned to his seat in front of the dozens of monitors. Taking a bite out of his sandwich, he gave them all a slow scan. Each monitor showed a different enclosure throughout Sanctuary in shaded of beryl. Only a handful of the images had movement in them. He watched the nocturnal animals move about their areas. The night shift was easy and peaceful. No one came here at night. No one could. He couldn’t leave until…
Avalon Rodgers skidded to a stop and nearly collapsed. She shuttered as pain racked in from her ears towards her brain from the alarms first blast as it echoed up and down the barren hallway. The urge to drop the wooden crate to cover her ears overwhelmed her and instantly wished that ear plugs had been included in the gear bag. She reached in the box and rummaged around the Arrau turtle that sat inside, pulling out some of his…
Lets start this year’s A-Z Challenge off right. I am going to try something wildly different. It might be a lot of work, it might not be (it probably will be). Early this year I bought a set of dice in a game shop called Rory’s Story Cubes. I’ve been wanting to try them out and haven’t had a chance yet. A-Z challenge seems like the best place to try them out! This plan is fool proof! Nothing can go…
Now that the A to Z challenge is done, I can actually think about other things. I threw this blog together so that I had somewhere to post stories for this. Also it got me a blog setup to by a writing presence. So that’s two for one right there. That there is a net win for me. If anyone had been wondering why the website looked a bit… under done, that’s why. I thew it together two days before…
Man, this is getting harder and harder to come up with different ideas. It’s certainly a good challenge. But there’s only 6 shorts to go. And I’m starting the week off behind. Yep. This will be the final crazy mad dash run. I can do this! Raw, stories – straight from brain to post.
Only two more weeks to go… 13 more shorts to go… and I’ve only got one of them pre-written. It’s going to be a full on mad dash from here to the end. Please pardon the mostly non-edited stories at this point. This has been quite fun so far. I just wish I had more time to visit other blogs also doing this crazy month long project. At least it’s getting me writing again. And then I can go back…
The noise started off quiet, unheard over the din of the shoppers as they milled in and out of shops, down vast arcade halls with a multitude of stalls, and marveled at the displays. In moments the sound became a low guttural grumble as the massive steam fed engines cranked out of idle. A small handful of people turned their heads towards the growing noise but continued their business. As the engines thundered to life, the rumbling pitched itself into…
This the real reason to be setting up a blog on such short notice. I was going to have this set up earlier, but there simply was no time. The theme I’m doing is about three employees who work in a mall. It’s rather boring stuff. I mean, it’s about a mall, how interesting could it possibly be? I hope I’m doing this all right! http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/