Category Archives: Adventure

BOB MCNEIL: A Presaged Day Ago

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Despondent about the Earth’s ecological state, an old, grey scientist named Arthur Quisling entered his six-by-eight, pyramid-shaped Dimensional Flier. In search of better universes, his yellow ship, which was capable of elongating and navigating through celestial holes, left our flawed planet behind.

Acclimated to Armageddon, the Earth awaited its fate.

Bob McNeil is a writer, spoken word artist and illustrator of some modest renown. Influenced by the Beats, he attempts to address the needs of our human mosaic.

ERIC BENSON: Graves

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Ted Henson had just finished up his pitch for his crime thriller masterpiece, Graves, and was waiting to hear the verdict.

A suit walked out and ushered him back in. Another suit started, “We’re sorry, Mr. Henson, but we can’t…”

And then he noticed the gun in Mr. Henson’s hand.

Eric has been writing short stories for around a year.

MICHAEL COOLEN: A Sky Filled With Bats

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In a remote African village I watched in wonder as thousands of fruit bats blotted out the moon as they crossed the river to settle in the mango trees to feed and sleep.

Soon I learned that the villagers ate the bats.

Later I learned that the bats transmit Ebola.

Michael Coolen is a writer, poet, composer, pianist, actor, and performance artist who lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

ERIC VIAL-BONACCI: To Love Books, or Not To Love Books

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I was told not to enter this old library. But I knew It was hidden somewhere.

All was quiet and dark. A little wind blew over the abandoned books.

When I ran away with the cursed Necronomicon, I realized it was too late. So I beg of you, deliver me!

Eric Vial-Bonacci is both a French urban explorer and a librarian. He won the award for the best Barjavel science fiction short story and likes the idea of 50-word stories.

GEORGE HOPKIN: A Final Farewell

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He spat on the grave, giddy with the knowledge she could never touch him again.

It had taken three hours to locate the headstone in the enormous cemetery.

Four hours on, hopelessly lost, he could still see her newly dug plot.

Night fell.

He felt her touch one last time.

George Hopkin puts words and spaces together and hopes like heck they entertain or inform. If they both entertain and inform, he thinks that’d be just fantastic, thank you very much.

MARIAN BROOKS: Rachel’s Resolutions

Adventure, Submissions

Rachel thought her face must be cracking. She hadn’t smiled for over five months and couldn’t recall what it felt like to grin. Now that Jake and Evelyn were dead, the guilt slid right off her shoulders into the pea soup she was stirring along with her first two resolutions.

Marian Brooks has been writing short fiction for the past two years. Her work can be found in Word Riot, The Linnets Wings, River Poets Journal and others.

JIM PURDY: Can it Get Any Worse?

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The car hit hard enough from behind to push them forward twenty feet.  The force of the air bag knocked him senseless.

He shook cobwebs loose as a rumbling sound persisted in one ear.  A sidewise glance and the train’s horn sounded.

He had been sitting at the crossing gate.

Jim Purdy is a retired engineering manager who lives in Oregon and spends his day with his faithful dog who never gives him disparagement.  She wags her tail as he reads her whatever he has just written.

ZION PATTERSON: The Crash

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The faint steady hum of the jet engines soothed me as I looked out the window. But then, complete silence.

I thought we were landing, until I heard the pilot on the radio saying, “All engines are out, repeat, all engines are out!”

We lost altitude, then all went black.

Zion Patterson is a sixth grade boy who likes video games and is amazing.

TOBIN WISE: The $50,000 Dream

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I thought it was all just a dream.

I was standing halfway to the basket. All I had to do was put this basketball into the net: $50,000 was on the line for a scholarship.

I told myself to calm down.

I shot.

And it was a dream

come true.

Tobin Wise is in sixth grade. He is a sports freak.

RUBY RAY: Soldier Blue

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Trapped in a cellar, with little ammunition.

They shouted to him:
he’d heard propaganda,
they weren’t barbarians,
he’d be treated okay,
Geneva Convention.

He was doubtful, but he didn’t want to die. He threw the AK rifle up through the trapdoor.

They beat him senseless.

Some time later, he died.

Ruby Ray has been a Jill of many trades and mistress of some of them. Anyway, she hopes to have mastered (mistressed?) a few more before she takes it easy for good.