PRL Serials

  • The Black Dream Cycle 3. To the Moon

    There were black horns protruding from the turban that came to ornamental points. He had the appearance of a devil, cloven hooves and furry legs that gave the impression that he wore shaggy brown pants, and his smile felt so sinister to me. I remembered what the white cloak had said on the ship, that…

  • The Baby Nightmares 1 – Selections from Wes E. L.’s Dream Journal 

    My daughter, Octavia, is a young teenager and she enjoys the beach more than everything. I was there with her on the sand, we both moved like an impressionistic painting, the world around us was smeared and beautiful.  Where is your mother, I said without words. The water is so nice, she replied, and then…

  • The Black Dream Cycle 2. The White Ship

    I was submerged in the water and for a moment I was resigned to death. I felt swaddled in sure doom, surrounded by the cold, violet wet, and my lungs begged to be opened and filled with air. Just as I opened my mouth to inhale the violet wet, I was jerked up and out…

  • Valeria hates me – Selections from Wes E. L.’s Dream Journal 

    Valeria hates me. Or I assume she does. She used to like it when I wrote about her. She knows how much writing means to me, how much a part of myself writing is. But she won’t like this if she ever reads it. She won’t like this while she hates me.  I love Valeria.…

  • The Black Dream Cycle 1. The Fall

    Leeland, the Epic Hero There was a story in the University newspaper; “Black freshman assaulted at local bar.” Leeland would never read it, but it would be used as evidence in the university’s investigation into the incident. Local police also conducted an investigation, and the incident led to charges of a hostile environment for minority…

  • The D- of Rhasdwiis – Issue 2 – Sundown continued 

    Many preparations were made on Wiis for the coming Triple Night, when no light from the two suns of Wiis would reach the planet’s surface during a standard daylight cycle. The last one occured fifteen trounts, or about twenty eight years RET, ago and the military imposed a strict curfew, barring civilians from leaving their…

  • The D- of Rhasdwiis – Issue 1 – Sundown

    The Rhasdwiis, the dominant sentient species of the planet Wiis, have a very long history. They have existed for almost a million years and they have always lived on the planet Wiis. The femina cogitandi, or the Rhasdwiis species as identified by Earthling scientists, are an extremely similar species to homo sapiens of Earth. The…

  • Universal Family Tree: Druinte Social Society (Series 2) – Issue 11 – Sad Reality 

    All sentient life is connected. The appendages may be different, we may eat different things, and live in different solar systems, but at the end of the day, we’re all one big family. It’s time to explore the branches of the universal family tree, and today, we present: Druinte Social Society (Series 2) E, Eris,…

  • Further Ascension – Issue 16 – The Fhetat War Part 3 of 3

    Maria is happy to hear that the negotiations between King Sao-Reyne and the IP Security Forces go well and the IP Forces begin their retreat from Fhetat space. The entire conflict has taught her something; spending time with the Earthlings has made her eager to return to her home planet. Growing up on Druont wasn’t…

  • The Hyperion – Issue 36 – BLACK PARADE

     “I will do what you ask,” AEther, the light form says to Alia.  Alia is humbled and very happy, relieved to have completed everything as it was supposed to be done.  “Is this really it?” Alia asks. They stand in a very dark space that is like the space she and Kazi Fandral had arrived…