Michael B Puskar
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Palms of Qayin
The river plunged low into a dale, a valley so steep that there was no seeing very far before the horizon, itself decorated with the dance of susu, their song innocuous to the other large beasts resting below as the sun began its consumption of the sky. Chief amongst the stirring giants was the basin's largest denizen, who lay in the two-elephant deep by-waters of the river in the grotto at the end of the aforementioned tract. He was older than the Rivers and keener than their Sire, yet as the first of the wyrmkin, Nod was bound never to venture from his confines of conifers and manor of mangroves and such; and the outlying steppe.
By Michael B Puskar3 years ago in Fiction
Quest for the Tantalum Heart
The fiction of the last age of the old world was spot on. The novels, short stories, movies, radio broadcasts, and comic books knew this new world was coming and – to some degree – what it would be like; but there was absolutely no order. Methane seepages filled the seas with the darkest of ochrophytes, and carbon emissions turned the skies an equally dingy brown; while the soil beneath our feet turned blue and foul from the overly abundant dead matter we walk on every day. All the while, the democracies of yore similarly decayed, with the white-bread agencies in this federal government fronting a faux security #ForThePeople with their beaming white smiles.
By Michael B Puskar5 years ago in Fiction
Ever Hear of the Greek Hero Born Hercules?
Classical and Norse mythology first grabbed my attention when I was in middle school in the early '90s, an interest stemming off comic book characters such as Marvel's Thor and Hercules. The former had some relational differences from its source material, but it had all of the names of the Norse Aesir correct (this, long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe turned them from actual gods into extraterrestrial beings). However, the latter of those two heroes, who was often a thorn in Thor's side – though a fellow Avenger – was part of the Greek characters Marvel had, along with his father Zeus and half-brother Ares. Sounds right.... right?
By Michael B Puskar5 years ago in FYI
The Registry
John Hardt wasn't expecting anyone today when his faulty doorbell sounded. He never had visitors on Sunday mornings. He slipped on his sandals to go check the door, though he didn't want to get up from the couch in the middle of a news report about a local woman who mysteriously vanished and hasn't been seen for a week. Sure, he could've set the VCR to record it, but that would have required putting in a tape and making sure it was blank... more effort than it was worth.
By Michael B Puskar5 years ago in Horror
