Tag: Scifi

I’m at a yoga class in down dog, gleefully aware that I’m the only man in a class full of soccer moms and that multiple eyes are ogling my assiduously squat-thickened behind (yep, we all have our preferences; thank God that mine is fairly mainstream).  Suddenly one of them screams, “That’s HIM!  The guy who…

My English professor is talking our ears off about some centuries-old piece of writing that supposedly illustrated man’s plight of continual ignorance within a failed state compounded by greed underscored by the theme of animal vs. human etc. etc. etc. blah blah blah…I’m getting up to leave when suddenly, the professor presses a button beneath his desk.  Giant…

It’s the middle of the night.  I’m driving down a winding country road, when suddenly I hear THUMP on the roof my car.  I open the glove compartment, snatch out a .44 magnum, and blast holes through my roof (I’ve just suffered through a straight week of powerpoint presentations, so I’m a little on edge).  A chitinous, spiny…

I’m typing away at Echo 4 when a pasty, wiry arm starts choking me from behind.  I try to defend the choke but it’s sunk in too deep.  I hear my attacker whisper, “I’ve been sent by the Grammar Nerd Prime to end your miserable existence, writer.”  I stand up and hammer fist this dork-assassin’s…