Adam had forgotten one of the most important lessons that the bees teach: only sting when necessary, for it can do more damage to you than your target. His bees were gone. He had been imprisoned for years. All because of his rage. Now he was free, but still alone. He could go home. They […]

I liked ants when I was a kid. I remember I did a project on them in the fourth grade and for a year or so after I was full of ant facts that I would share with any adult willing to listen. They seemed like neat, industrious little insects. These days I’m more terrified […]

“Behold Akrathaz!” It was the voices that first roused me, but it was the stench that kept me from just rolling over and going back to sleep. “Behold Akrathaz!” I coughed and gagged. After a moment I used a pillow to cover my mouth and nose, then reluctantly stood and stumbled to my window. The […]

“Which is worse, do you think? To be dead, or to be forgotten and absorbed into the memory of someone else?” “I keep telling you, Chris, you’re already dead. I don’t care about being forgotten. Let me sleep!” In what should have been pitch darkness, Devin cursed every bit of streetlight that leaked into the […]

This one time, two alien spaceships met each other in the void of space between star systems. Neither species had ever encountered a different species before, so it was a momentous event. The scientifically-minded crews of the two ships stopped and tried to communicate. Eventually, they worked out a coded system of light flashes through […]