Matues

You have just died and everything is darkness. You have no eyes to see with, no ears to hear with, no body to feel. Even if you could, there is nothing around you, and you are as nothing- a single speck in an endless void. Whatever emotions that reel through your body die unheard. You have been dead for a year. It has been a year of chilling blackness and soul numbing despair. Any hope you had of this being a nightmare has passed. You have raged and sorrowed and screamed voicelessly into the void to no avail. You sink into your memories, clinging to the things you once knew and loved. You have been dead a century. You have hung in this bodi

Nothing is truly simple. Is not talking something easy? You just talk. But.. What do you really do? Deep within the dense neural network that is your brain, a brilliant chemical dance of ions through complex cells begins. Peculiar parts of the brain begin a rapid debate about the exact phrasing of what is to be said. Then,with amazing speed, the message shrieks down nerves. Deep within the chest, the diaphragm begins to move, expanding the lungs. Air molecules suddenly find themselves being jerked apart. Outside, excited air molecules decide to take advantage of the new low-pressure area and flow through the mouth and nose, down the throa

"Wow. Dude I thought you were joking about how it looked." I laughed. It wasn't often a new shop opened up in our puny backwater down, much less one like this. "It look like something decorated for Halloween." My sister Jane said in a jovial voice. Me, my sister and my best friend Mike stood in front of what looked like the freakish hybrid of a haunted house and a costume shop. Dark windows, cobwebs, weird looking merchandise.. The whole nine yards. "Wanna go in?" Mike asked teasingly, "Maybe we'll find some demon-possessed puppet or something like from one of those horror moves you love so much." I tried -and failed- to keep a serious l

One might think that being a Dragon would be an awesome experience. Scales harder than armor, the ability to breath mighty flames and, of course, the practically limitless years to live! Surely being such a regal and magical creature would be nothing less than a succession of wondrous moments. But dragons are living beings, and they must suffer the irritants and annoyances of life with the rest of us. Our tale begins with the particular problems of a young dragon, a distressed damsel and a brave knight. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining in the sky, spreading warm across the lofty trees. Clouds frolicked through the sky with a degr