Tabula Rasa.
We Are All Born Equal In Our Insignificance.
(Science-Fiction, Short Story)
After two years of living homeless, the Grid has lost all interest in me. To them, I’m just another castoff. A blank. Human waste. Another unwanted byproduct of this modern, civilized world. This city is famous for its population of forgotten and unwanted. These rags I wear, this filth on my skin, the cruel hunger that’s so evident in my sunken, boney face—these things grant me untold freedom to walk among the enemy. Poverty has made me a ghost. Invisible. Never once has National Surveillance Grid suspected that I am the culmination of more than half a century of black budget projects and forbidden research. Born of two mothers and twenty-seven fathers, my family tree is a string of recombinant DNA where the chromosomes of soldiers and saints share nucleotides with the genes of criminals and politicians. I am a Brother. A ten-year-old man who was perfected in a lab, born from a whore, and raised to be mankind’s redeemer.
And today I will die.
Tabula Rasa is a terrifyingly poetic dystopian tale about when bio-terrorism becomes the “final solution” to solving the so-called “intersectional problems” of race, class, and gender.
Death Wore Greasepaint.
A clown gazed into the abyss & found it hilarious.
(Horror-Comedy, Short Story)
The Octopus King.
The Old Man in the Sea.
Wilbur had introduced the character three weeks ago and already he was a fan favorite. More popular than Rhonda, more popular than Fishface, he even got more love than Goofy Mister Gugs. The Octopus King dominated the hearts and minds of the kids who watched the Happy Fun Time Show every day after school. Like most of Wilbur’s ideas, the character had come in a dream. One night Wilbur found himself wandering the corridors of a palace beneath the waves, where reality was jumbled, and everything was like an Iron Maiden album cover. This was the domain of The Elder God. He who fell to Earth and was tricked into a deep slumber. One day He would awaken and gift the world with what Wilbur had already found…
Enlightenment.
This is the story of a clown who dared open his mind to the wisdom of the Necronomicon and found it utterly hilarious!
