fantasy
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Traveler
Chapter 2 They were orange. Bright, virulent orange, with undulating cyan ridges from top to bottom. They were also around eight feet tall, vaguely squidlike, and didn’t seem to ‘ambulate normally.’ Instead of legs or feet, there was a dense column of short, thick tentacles beneath them, constantly wriggling and shifting to almost glide them in one direction or the other. It was a bizarre sight, but I was on an alien planet.
By Taylor Inman5 years ago in Futurism
Eléni & M Move to Athens - Part 6
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 5 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed—you can ask her—to appear as a fictional character in this new series as well. Her full name in this series is Anthi Kanéna, or flowers without stems. I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
Eléni & M Move to Athens - Part 5
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 4 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed—she did—to appear as a fictional character in this new series as well. It would not have been the same without her. Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion. Democritus
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
Sunrise
“Sunrise,” he thought. “It’ll be sunrise, or I don’t know a damn thing about anything.” He knew they could not address the issue till then, when all of the servicemen switched on their phones from being mysteriously turned off from the moment they left work Friday until the moment they clocked in Monday. It’s true nobody likes to be called in on their weekend off. These men had additional aversions to answering that phone. Nobody wanted to work on their weekend off especially since they all knew that answering the phone meant aiding in the killing of yet another few dozen citizens whose only crime had been refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Families, the lot of them. And children. Defenseless children, who at the time had no choice in the matter save for the choice their parents had made.
By Chandee Ramirez5 years ago in Futurism
Eléni & M Move to Athens - Part 4
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 3 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed once more to appear as a fictional character in this new series. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
Eléni & M Move to Athens - Part 3
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 2 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed once again to appear as a fictional character in this new series. The French subtitle means, A Foursome by Two. How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. Alexander the Great
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
The Timeless Locket
I was born after the world ended, not ended as in the world is gone but ended as in what used to be is no longer. I never knew the old world, only tales from the elders who described a world where information was accessible at a touch. A world where metal birds flew in the air and people drove metal boxes on roads. This world that was described to me seemed like a fantasy. Those things do not exist any more, Some say humans were the culprit, others say it was just happenstance. I have no theory on what happened. All I know is the barren dark world that consumes our lives day in and day out. Food is scarce, people are cruel and life is hard. Daily quests into the dark wood to search for foods of any kind claim the lives of many on a daily bases, I am Henry my age is fifteen and this is my life.
By Dalton Rogers5 years ago in Futurism
Eléni & M Move to Athens - Part 2
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 1 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed once again to appear as a fictional character in this new series. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
Eléni & M Move to Athens - Part 1
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 13. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed to appear again as a fictional character in this new series. A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
My Life in Ancient Greece
I wonder whose fault it is that I am in love with Goddess Athena from Ancient Greece. I only mean it in a good way, of course. I love Athena to death. It cannot be because of my ex-muse. She was jealous at times but my poem about jealousy (linked at the bottom) may have put an end to that. She obviously did not inspire the words to that one. Another reason that I am quite suddenly in love with a goddess from over 3,000 years ago is her impeccable character which towered over any man’s or other god’s. The key reason, however, can only be related to my reading of someone’s poems and or stories that simply contained allusions to Ancient Greece and some of its source words, which more and more seems like the only culprit.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Futurism
