Meg Leader
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The Arrak Marigold
Every so often I wonder what poor, misbegotten soul built my shabby cabin in Arrak’s rolling mountains. Someone must have been here before me. What happened to them? Did they go mad? Or die of loneliness? Or disappear into the wilderness, eaten by a monster or poisoned by the vicious plant life on this world? I don’t know, and the question haunts me when I think about it. So I try not to think much. About anything.
By Meg Leader4 years ago in Fiction
Fezzig's Box
I first encountered the Peculiar Event when I was taking my daily exercise along the river path. This is a pleasant walkway that travels right along the edge of the river, with benches every fifty feet or so, and conveniently placed trash baskets to catch the detritus of those passing by. I like to walk there because trees provide shade and the path is mostly empty in the mid-morning hours. I find it a convenient way of fitting in some healthy exercise.
By Meg Leader5 years ago in Fiction
It Was My Cake That Done It
The day the Alien Ambassador arrived on Earth, I was makin’ my hummingbird cake for the seniors in the old folks home on the edge of town. I had my beat-up television nattering away in the corner and was halfway listening to Dr. Phil ‘splain to some folks why teaching their three-year-old how to jaywalk wasn’t the best in mom-and-dad skills. Sheesh. You’da thought the dimmest bulb woulda waited till the kid was six or seven. Especially in a big city like Greensboro. Some of them city folks ain’t got no sense at all.
By Meg Leader5 years ago in Futurism
The Barn
I placed one foot in front of the other in yet another plodding step. Was this the ten-thousandth step? Or the hundred-thousandth? When I started my journey, I planned to count each forward step as a measure of progress, something positive to outweigh the bleak, lifeless landscape. But I’d lost count hours—days—ago. About the time I’d eaten the last crumbling remnants of the peanut butter crackers pilfered from a gas station mini-mart.
By Meg Leader5 years ago in Horror
