A bit of a different post today. I only have two drabbles for you, but they are two counterpoints of an apocalypse. And they are Haibuns, prose with a haiku at the end. So enjoy the experiment. Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Lament I am buried among the cinders, the smoking ruins of singularity... Continue Reading →
Three drabbles of the apocalypse today. Enjoy. Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Fire and Ice We believed the lies, and they burned down the world.Greed was good, for the privileged few. The rest of us went without. Many of us starved. Protests ended in riots. More died. They didn’t mourn; they blamed us for... Continue Reading →
Happy Earth Day, and I have an end-of-the-world themed chant poem for you today to celebrate. Enjoy. Photo by Josh Sorenson on Pexels.com Calibrate Altered process, distorted outputsyncopation grindingagainst your mechanized failureCalibrate Glitching bytes, flashing screensdata corruptedwithin the infinite algorithmCalibrate Insidious damage, logic virussystem collapseinto worldwide disintegrationCalibrate
Three more drabbles this week, and I'm thinking of expanding the idea into a new drabble series. I'd love your feedback on whether you'd like to see more of these stories. The Future World 3212 AW (After Worldfall) The Past Civilization Museum “Welcome, children, to the 2021 BW (Before Worldfall) exhibit. You are now entering... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to Drabble Wednesday. This week we are once again going to the dark side, with three world-ending tales. Enjoy. Image by DangrafArt from Pixabay Desolation The dry dust scattered its grains across the charred plain, swirling, erasing the days-old footprints in the ruined earth. Stragglers had passed this way, not long ago, a band of survivors... Continue Reading →
Be Afraid of the Dark 