Letters from the Desk of the Editor: Letter 1

Andrew Jackson.
I watched a documentary piece today on Andrew Jackson on the History Channel. Some people say he was a great man. Some people called him a devil. I heard one Native American woman call him Hitler and she compared the Trail of Tears to the holocaust.
Why?
Why? Do you realize what [...]

Voice of Rage and Ruin

I could taste blood. It wasn’t mine. At least, not all of it. I could smell blood too. Old, dead, decaying blood that clung in putrid reminder of death and then slowly my eyes opened to blackness. A shiver ran down my spine at the reminder of the cold [...]

The Ballad of Pablo and Consuela

Ch.1
At least they said it was. In truth I guess I never really knew their names. I was a younger man back then, mostly singing Johnny Cash songs for ex-cons and truckers in country bars through out the south and the Midwest all the way into Colorado and I guess that’s where [...]

The Adventures of Leonard and Puffles: Episode 1 The Day Puffles met Leonard

as narrated by Puffley J. Puffington
Chapter 1- The Beginning
And I guess that’s as good a place to start telling a story as any other, isn’t it? I mean, I suppose I could just tell you about the day, but, something tells me you’re not interested in the weather and if you are, I wish [...]

Serenity Gardens

Aw, welcome! Welcome, welcome, welcome one and all. I’m sorry, I didn’t see you come in, I was just finishing up here. Come, come now, no need to stand on ceremony. That’s right, gather around I won’t bite. Well, well, well then, maybe I will bite a little bit don’t mind [...]

Serenity Gardens

Heh heh heh heh heh…. aww, its been a long time now heheh but we are back again
. Yes, yes my friends it is I, you’re trusty old pal Marlowe, your guide to the shadows and alleys, dark secrets and fantasies that this old building here holds. Ahh, and love is in the [...]

the devil should no longer plauge man

i’m nobodies machine
i don’t work for oil to keep
me working, to keep me running
as a part of the machine
all we can tell
is that we all are,
on the same blue ground
caring the same long wish
but how can we be
on the same part
how can we be,
we are all different in our worlds
life struggles as a whole
come make [...]

Serenity Gardens

Well… Hello, hello, hello Marlowe here againto welcome you back boys and ghouls heh heh heh heh. Sorry, a little Halloween humor, heheh I do love a good pun. Come right this way, right this way now. That’s it. Don’t be scared. Don’t mind the smashed pumpkins on the ground there. [...]

How Xander, Me, Mikey and Some Stoners from the Suburbs Saved the World

Ch.9
“Who’s there?” I took a deep breath and watched as Kurt made a motion to someone to go see what the noise was.
There was motion in the darkness and I stood up with my hands in the air. “It’s me. Hap.” I was blinded when all the flashlights converged [...]

Tales Told in a Tavern Part I Ch. 2

And so it was that in the early spring of the year I set off on horseback to the mountain villages and towns of the Travers Mountains (though I was at first met with great difficulty by the dwarfen mining community and was not allowed passage to continue until proof of my authority was given). [...]