PRL Serials

  • The Origins of Magic Part 2 of 3

    The technologies of this alien race, that is an unfathomable distance from the Earth, make them appear to be capable of bending reality to beings on other planets, even to the most advanced populations in the universe. It is a society of beings that is not completely dissimilar to societies of people on Earth, but…

  • Made in America – Issue 5 – Wendy, the IBF Receptionist One Shot Part 2

    Maria trashes her phone and goes inside of a Walmart to buy another for cheap. Maria doesn’t trust the CIA or the NSA, any government organization really, not since it came to light that they were listening to average people like soap operas. The last thing she wanted was for some government drone to find…

  • Made in America – Issue 4 – Wendy, the IBF Receptionist One Shot Part 1

    The view from the front desk is excellent for people watchers. The Institute for Brain Function, a little know lab and research center in rural GA, is a fairly busy building with three floors of mostly scientists, and some patients, a few lab rats, and Wendy, who is the receptionist who sits at the front…

  • Let the Beat Build Part 4: Permanence

    All of that preamble leads me to the most important reason that music matters so much to me. Permanence. In a fickle world where things are constantly changing, music seems to be a constant. Even though genres may evolve with each new generation, the old stuff still exists unadulterated, in the same form from its…

  • Made in America – Issue 3 – Eakran and the Interstellar Panel One-Shot

    This is a transcript of an Interstellar Panel meeting that took place about 100 Earth years ago. Only one member of the Panel is named in the original recording that produced the transcript (it has been roughly translated here into the Earth language known as English):  [“Earth is sentient, that alone is enough to warrant…

  • Let the Beat Build Part 3: Instruction

    I have said it many times before, and I don’t mind saying it again, I love and respect my uncle Thomas. His aesthetic more than anyone else’s has had the greatest impact on my own sensibilities, though I must admit ignorance when it comes to his favorite musical genre, jazz. He will spend an evening…

  • Made in America – Issue 2 – Nebuchad One-Shot

    World music is loud and it makes listeners dance, they have little say in the matter. It exists in abundance, that steady, pulsating baseline, the electronica accents that make it sound metallic, robotic, futurist. World music is default club and party music. Nebuchad knows it well, he is always in a club dancing his way…

  • Let the Beat Build Part 2: Ambiance

    When my mother’s mother died, I was in my early teens. She lived in Florida before she died and my family flew from Norfolk to Ft. Lauderdale to attend her funeral. She wanted to be buried in Florida even though she had been born in Ladoga, NC and most of her family was born and…

  • Let the Beat Build Part 1: Time Travel

    I like music for a lot of different reasons. Music is the bridge to my past and it’s one of the ways that I bond with loved ones. It seems that I inherited my love of music from my family; the music that they played when I was too young to have any musical tastes…

  • Made in America – Issue 1 – Maria One-Shot

    Maria is a fairly tall woman. She is 5’9” and has excellent posture, so she seems to be 5’10”. Her complexion in not dark brown, but she is definitely not white, and she has a mole on her cheek that is small but noticeable. Her hair is long past her shoulders and she loves to…