Scrambled Earths

Category: Fiction

  • Hex Support

    I’m just a junior in college with a work-study job. Hey, when a scholarship comes along for a school with this reputation, most try to figure it out. I started out as part of the help desk team for the main student computer lab in the Waffle Phase Science building. Most shifts were chill. Password…

  • This Aggression Will Not Stand

    From this viewpoint at the top of white cliffs, the sea far below is calm. Very close, lightning flashes in the smoke billowing out of the volcano across the bay, filling the sky and approaching rapidly. You try to concentrate. Guarding the subject is easy today, until it will not be. You feel yourself losing…

  • Krampus Release Authorization 122525 Exhibit A (transcript)

    Friends, you may have seen this play out before on one of your screens. It is after eleven on Christmas Eve, and Mom and Dad are wrapping presents. They would have dealt with this already, but it has been an exhausting time lately, right? Dad says it’s worse than last year. But, their children deserve…

  • The Puncher

    A quick tale in the vicinity of Mother’s Light but, I dunno, the multi-verse is a big place. Dearest Arthur, I send you many good wishes and joyous holiday cheer. I remain employed and thriving in that frigid faraway kingdom to the north, the one where I once sought a proper education many years ago.…

  • The Voice Of Mother

    If I count stories and not posts, this is number 50. To celebrate, here is a prequel character study visit with a major antagonist in Mother’s Light. He would say he is the main villian. He is wrong. He slowly regained consciousness and, as always, he remembered his name first. Carroll was wrapped in something…

  • MotD: The Fighter (1)

    Still the beginning of a longer story, Master of the Dungeon. This concludes Chapter 2, preceded by The Ranger (2) The farmland surrounding the road on both sides turned from small plots of pasture to larger crop fields, now empty post-harvest. Colorful and ornate signs still periodically beckoned welcoming locals and tourists alike to visit…

  • MotD: The Ranger (2)

    Still the beginning of a longer story, Master of the Dungeon. This is Chapter 2, preceded by The Archer and the Blacksmith (2), followed by The Fighter (1) Shotani Nao sipped from his third pot of an entirely respectable herbal tea. He had returned to the Angry Goose not long after the sun had risen.…

  • MotD: The Archer and the Blacksmith (2)

    Still the beginning of a longer story, Master of the Dungeon. This is Chapter 2, preceded by The One Best Ignored (1), followed by The Ranger (2) Walda combed her hair, though she had reemerged well rested, and dry. As always, healthier. Feeling the same, Gris admired his beard in the mirror. “How did you…

  • MotD: The One Best Ignored (1)

    Still the beginning of a longer story, Master of the Dungeon. This is early Chapter 2, followed by: The Archer and the Blacksmith (2). Just before dawn, Zon the Nullifier stood at the foot of a shared bed. The occupants of this farmhouse lay still, paralyzed by their own brains as they slowly regained consciousness.…

  • MotD: The Ranger (1)

    We are at the beginning of a longer story, Master of the Dungeon. Preceded in Chapter One by The Archer and the Blacksmith (1) This appears to close Chapter One. There is now a Chapter Two. Shotani Nao sipped from his cup of water, and ate the last of the nuts on the polished wooden…