She looked like one of those statues of pharaohs you see in the history holos - god kings of old who had the power to shape stone and bend even the great Nile itself to their will...
The Electric Corp. (part 2)
Outskirts Two black boys get on the back of the bus. They beatbox and make up rhymes as the big diesel rumbles through new estates in Broomfield, good-naturedly threatening to shank each other as we arrive at the big hospital where my Dad was a patient 18 months ago and where all of us will …
The Electric Corp. (part 1)
The Day I Left The day I left I had to abandon everything that I needed to do that day and just leave. Didn't go to the office. Didn't take a laptop with me. Didn't even charge my phone. It died on the way somewhere near Eridge. At London Bridge I met a men on …
Skye Warden – part 3
"Ms Warden? I'm Aubyn Sinklare, the president of planet Genesys."
SKYE WARDEN, part two
Chapter One: Scout (continued) The morning didn't go too well. She had to finish the history of the old republic on planet Aria that she had been working on, but for some reason today Scout, who was usually an attentive student, was distracted and restless. Her tutor Katherine hadn't wanted her to write the …
SKYE WARDEN, part one
A long, long time ago, in a different galaxy..... Preamble: An Introduction to the Alderbaran Civil War, also known as THE A.R.E. WARS By Wargin Geoff General Warden, the hero of the Aldebaran Civil War, had two sons. One died in childbirth, but the other was a healthy boy. Skye was …
With Dylan in New York, part 2
Scene: Ray Donovan's Place, New York City, 1961 At Ray Donovan's place an assortment of hipsters are gathered. Some wear smart clothes and are clean cut, some are Rock 'n' Rollers. Some are sailors or n'er do wells crawled in off the street. Some look like they came from the circus. The hippy vogue for …
