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The True Start of Everything (15) – Ointite Origin Myth
When the heavens were nothing, they were discontented. So they collected their sentience, their awareness of the emptiness, into a singularity, and a new being was born. The Center is all knowing because it has awareness of everything that came before it, and as the parent of everything in the universe, everything that has existed…
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The True Start of Everything (14) – Krognian Origin Myth
North Mother was first born. She breached the darkness like she always does, boldly, bringing light on her heels. She made the stars. South Mother was second. She followed after her sister and made the planets that her nieces and nephews would shine down upon. Then East Mother, who moved everything around and gave the…
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The True Start of Everything (13) – Theogony continued
The universe is not a static thing. At the start, the universe was smaller, more compact as it was just starting it’s expansion out, and everything was so hot that Space itself was white hot. As it cooled, Space became more transparent, but in the early universe, the lights were always on; a bright white…
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Silas in Hell – Issue 15 – The Father at a Distance
Good and bad are relative terms. That is easy to wrap one’s brain around. But real evil, pure evil, is identifiable by those who value life or an existence unencumbered by pain and tragedy. Evil is associated with a desire to end life for reasons that cannot be justified, or for a justification that is…
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Alia – Issue 24 – A to Z Blues
“We should know one another better before you head off into the stars,” Alia says to Maria. She has been awake for about a day and the two sit outside of the IBF on a bench next to a lake. The back of the IBF is like an enclosed park and the lake has a…
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Alt-Adam (2019 Annual) – Issue 1 –
Adam knows that things will change very soon for him and his partner Manuel. Either he would force the change or it would be thrust upon them, and neither of them want to face what Dr. Worthington had referred to as a scrambling of their minds. But before they get out, brains scrambled or not,…
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Alia – Issue 23 – Ticket Agent Blues
Darker took four bullets to save the life of Dr. Thomas Eakran. Dr. Frederick Cousins had emptied a gun he’d stolen from Giovanni, the man in charge of Eakran’s protection, and Darker had dove to ensure that Eakran was safe, seemingly at the expense of his own life. Maria was sure that he was dead,…
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Universal Family Tree: 140 – Issue 5 – The Larger Aliarum
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: 140 – Issue 5 – The Larger…
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Alia – Issue 22 – Lay Some Flowers on my Grave
When Frederick was a kid, his father called him Freddy. “My daddy was Fred Senior,” his father had told him, “and that’s what they called him, or just Senior.” His father was Fred Jr., and both his parents named him Frederick to honor both their fathers. His father was half black and white, and when…
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POWER (2019 Annual)
10. Anes and Anat When the copulating ball of Anes’s parents crash landed on an asteroid that was moving through space, their daughter Anat lost her grip on her mother and went flying off into space. She had been born at the same time as Anes, but she held on to her parents for as…