PRL Serials

  • Diode Issue 2 – Crude (One-Shots)

    Following the shooting at the apartment complex where Ivan lived with his family, the landlord, a lady with a very short temper, stood in the doorway looking at the apartment where one of the tenets had been shot. There was viscera staining the carpet and though the crime scene cleanup crew would eventually make their…

  • Issue 4, Vol. II – June 27, 2016

    Did you watch the season finale of Game of Thrones? Holy crap I’m excited about next season. If you haven’t seen it, you don’t have to worry about spoilers from me, but watch it immediately. Now that the season is over, there’s nothing worth watching and we can all turn off the TV until the…

  • The Magician 4. Tied Down and Bound 

    When he comes to again, Kevin is strapped to a bed and looking up into lights that make him feel like he has woken up during surgery. He can’t move anything because of the straps on his wrists and ankles, at his knees and elbows, around his pelvis, torso, neck and head. And there is…

  • Diode Issue 1 (Part 2) – Anode (One-Shots)

    As Clay was giving the punching bag his all, in a different part of town, a young man named Ivan was preparing to leave the local hospital where he gave his time as a volunteer. He’d been there all night with an old man who’d suffered a heart attack and had no family to comfort…

  • The Black Side of Paradise 3. Bradford (conclusion)

    Bradford knew one thing, he would not live another day in his mother’s house and he would find a place to live that suited his sensibilities. Maybe there was a nice mansion in a forest of well groomed trees and a garden maze that he could find to live. But when he tried to run…

  • The Magician 3. Old Haunts

    Throwing knives at targets that he’d created out of thin air seems to have sharpened Kevin’s reflexes (the word play is very much intended). The section of the street he’d created to divert a car speeding on a street where he found himself while trying to avoid a conversation with a statuesque woman named Anish,…

  • Issue 3, Vol. II – June 20, 2016

    It’s me, the mercurial editor of the PRL Serials here to present the continuation, and eventual conclusion, of Volume II. I won’t bore you all with apologies, they’re so 2015 anyway, and we’re just going to forge ahead. It’s been an interesting time for me, and here at the PRL, and I hope we can…

  • Staring into the Sun

    I wanted to listen. When I was six, everything my teacher said was law. I would cry just watching other people break the rules. But during that solar eclipse in 1992, after we had made our viewers out of cardboard and sat in the correct position outside in the school yard next to a big…

  • Guns and Shit, starring Jeff

    Jeff bought a gun and posed with it in his bathroom mirror. It felt good in his hand, like a hand gun is designed to, and it felt better than other guns he had held before. The one he rented at the local range was heavy and had a significant kick when he fired it.…

  • The Blind Leading The Blind

    “It’s not a coincidence, people get crazy when the world gets turned upside down.” Brad is an alarmist, and if not for the vision of him shirtless, I would have thrown him away as annoying. “The closer we get to real freedom, the more people will do anything to drag us back, in the name…