Robert de Mattos
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I'm a freelance writer who likes to write fantasy fiction as well as personal stories and advice for folks in the tech industry or folks navigating in finding a new job.
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The Book of Petch. Content Warning.
In the Andromeda Galaxy on the tip of the fourth spire sits a white star system called Xeros with eight planets. Velga, Orith, Mithra, Kelgus, Cylok, Ruha, Leflos and Besra. Of these planets, five of the eight are inhabited by life. Velga, Mithra, Cylok, Ruha and Besra. Of these planets, the star system is of individual planetary governance with Cylok being the most advanced in spacefaring technology and the largest planet in the system and home to over one hundred different civilizations and a population of nearly one trillion sentients. The radiation from the white sun interacts with the atmosphere to give the sky a purple color only seen in daylight hours. Sitting on the western hemisphere of Cylok is the city of Olna. From the sky, the curved and oddly shaped buildings give off a shiny hematite glow and the city is nearly 2000 miles long in every direction. Olna is part of the continent of Estia. The Estian continent is nearly thirty percent of the planets surface and the largest continent. The city of Olna is one of four cities on the continent to be part of the Sorian order. A governance which ensures that everyone from the any planet in the Xeros system receives everything they need including a good education to serve a purpose in maintaining the cities harmonious civilization. One of the species that lives in Olna are humanoid and derive from ancestry that migrated from the Milky Way galaxy some two million years before, though historians aren't sure where to be exact. The humanoid race known as Alkians are highly evolved. They are generally grey in color with skin that shows transparency to their skeletons. Their eyes are wide and black with tiny nostrils for noses and very small mouths. Their arms and legs are smaller and thinner as they are mostly oblivious to the planets gravitational pull. It is the 8th day of Estias in the twelfth year of Cylo. Two Alkians have just emerged from the wall of Enkus Universerium. A school that specializes in the telekinetic sciences. Jedro is the taller of the two Alkians and is proudly wearing his golden cetra (plated necklace) with a smile on his face. The shorter Alkian is Petch who wears a silver cetra around his neck. Petch beings to speak telepathically.
By Robert de Mattos6 days ago in Fiction
Cold River Stare
He missed them already. His mom, dad and sister. In downtown Omaha he sat in his work van staring at the cold Missouri River. The large parking lot gave refuge to just Ron today. The lot was usually more busy in the summer time for people wanting to take the walking bridge into Council Bluffs but in the winter it was no more than a spot for people like Ron to stop and eat their lunch. Ron was a bit chubby, clean shaven wearing a golf shirt and khaki's with so much in ground dirt in them that no detergent could get them back to their former glory again.
By Robert de Mattos6 days ago in Men
