majoki

Joined August 2025

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simpler than you thought
You gave them the names. All of them. Jelenik, Szmania, Guar, Imhotep, Salasi, Yun, Indrasutthan, Holt. Faisel knows it. HIs broken face, his darkened eyes tell you the brief moments he lifts from the stupor of a visit. You cover his lacerations, damp his fever, moisten his battered lips, force morsels past his chipped teeth. His pulse barely registers, but his fury, his contempt, is more alive than you will ever feel again.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
crush-kill-destroy
It’s crushing to be thought of this way. It kills me that I engender such fear. I’m destroyed by your trepidation that I could ever do harm.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
already forgotten
Of course I lured you in. Tempted you with Pleasure, dazzled you with Beauty, disarmed you with Peace. It’s Nature’s way. At least on my planet.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
The Shady
It wasn’t long after I’d begun my USGS project near a little southern town that I began hearing threats and warnings about The Shady.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
the play's the thing
“Director Prime, we’re so pleased you have a few moments to chat with us before the premiere of your latest production. We hear it’s a new type of performance piece.”
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
Coming to Terms
The black hole formed quickly. The paper browning, crisping, then aflame as he held the match under the letter. He blew out the flame and stared into the smoky void it’d made. She’d written the letter, he’d read it, then burned it. So, what was left? What was lost?
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
the fetch of space
Iowa. It didn’t take me long to figure out. That all of us selected for this mission were from the heart of the Midwest. But I didn’t really get it until we came out of cryo-fugue beyond Eris.
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
Migration
He hadn’t planned on becoming a ghost hunter, but that’s what Mordem Letac felt like now. A trained naturalist, he’d come to the northern reaches of the Yukon Territory earlier in the summer to study migration patterns in the face of ecosystem collapse related to rapidly accelerating climate change.
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
the last year of confusion
Pioneering computer scientist, Alan Kay, once said, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” I have to disagree. I’ve found the best way to predict the future is to control it. And the easiest way to control the future is to be in charge of time. In my case that means establishing the calendar and setting the clocks.
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
providential
When the founders of Providence made planetfall, they had but one credo to establish their new civilization on the uninhabited world: Blind ignorance is unfortunate. Willful ignorance is shameful. Manufactured ignorance is unforgivable.
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
Angel
When you’ve seen what flashbeams can do to infantry, even with shielding, it’s easy to lose your faith in humanity. When your commander outfits one of your few remaining tactical boostsuits with a golden cape and wings, and then orders you to fly among your maimed and dying comrades trumpeting on a silver horn as if you were the Angel Gabriel, you tend to lose your faith in God, too.
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction
Click. Split. The metal gleams
Click. Split. The metal gleams. That was all. Decades of research. Years of development. For this. Click. Split. The metal gleams.
By majoki5 months ago in Fiction