Summer came the same very year in the north. Started out slow, in tiny bursts. Flowers and trees seemed to shoot up from the earth when you had your back turned. Every time you scrutinized, they froze. Then, the bursts got longer and longer, the flora less and less shy, until finally the whole of [...]
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It’s live! The first issue of the interactive magazine: Aviator! Featuring (among others) my short story, Space Whales. Check it out, read it. Tell the Aviator people you loved it and want to see more of me! (flash based)
Anyhow, here it is…Space Whales via Aviator interactive magazine!
Tell them how much you loved my story here!
flash fiction: nutroll
Posted: 28th December 2009 by Eric in Fiction, Uncategorized, free fictionTags: Fiction, flash fiction, writing
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The moon was spying on me, watching me through my little window. The sky was blue and the winter moon was a clear three-quarter full. The only other thing visible from my high window was a massive pine. It was like and angry watcher, its branches fracturing the afternoon blue of the sky.
The moon watched [...]
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They were exhausted. Their once fine shirts, silk and golden traceries, were shredded and dirty, filthy with sweat and blood. They sat on the cold, worn stone steps, now slick with blood. Steam rose from the gore, tainting the fall morning air. At the base of the wide and winding stair lay a scrum of [...]
Excerpt from Simon’s Symphony (a novel in progress)
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Eric in free fiction, writingTags: free fiction, science fiction, writing
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It was perhaps, because she was so cold, that he found her charming. He surely suspected that to her, he was just another sub-routine. A program, she would start up and run, when her other programs told her central processor that it was appropriate to do so. He glanced at her eyes.
She smiled, demurely and [...]
Flash Fiction: The Darkness precedes the Outsiders
Posted: 6th February 2009 by Eric in free fictionTags: flash fiction, outsiders
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She wells up from beneath, a leviathan of old, hungry and elemental, witnesses feel the disturbance, but their rolling minds cannot make sense of what occurs about them. It’s a storm, swirling motions of thought and insight and anger, such raw, intense anger.
Plants wither and the ground blackens, turns cold, frosted and crackles. The sky [...]
Kryptonite, A Girl’s Smile
Posted: 15th January 2009 by Eric in free fiction, writingTags: flash fiction, free fiction
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The slew of the country roads made him smile every time. He lost himself in these outside places, lost hamlets and villages dotted the American landscape, and at times he felt as if it were his sole responsibility to rediscover them. A loose receipt flittered around the car’s cabin and he played with the windows, [...]
Fiction: A car the color of a dying sun
Posted: 13th January 2009 by Eric in free fiction, writingTags: cyberpunk, Fiction, free fiction, science fiction
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A poisoned oasis that served only gold water that burned.
Wrecked cars and dust on my boots, me with nowhere to know, knowing everyplace I could go. I just sat there, in the heat, a lizard on a rock. Dust in the distance and divine chemistry, making things to put in my body, feeling hurtful [...]
Free fiction: Gloom
Posted: 23rd December 2008 by Eric in free fictionTags: flash fiction, free fiction, science fiction
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by Eric Staggs, 2007
He was an agent of change. Real, tangible change. Where he passed, ripples shook society and ground alike. Nothing could be the same after an agent of changed passed this way. He’d been sitting motionless for hours or years, now. Timed-release narcotics saturating his blood. He blinked once a minute, and then [...]