by Pat Bove | Jan 19, 2025 | A Short Story
Since its announcement, the theory had been reduced to the delusions of a once-great man. The data was there, but discredited. Some even accused it of being doctored. Had it not been for the famous man behind it, they’d never have given him the stage. Even the most...
by Pat Bove | Jan 19, 2025 | A Short Story, Fiction
It was winter when Beelzebub and his armies returned. I was a priest in the age of man. I hoped that might matter. Even when the dark armies gathered all holy men across all regions, I thought we had a purpose. It was a foolish hope. Upon his arrival, Beelzebub spoke...
by Pat Bove | Jan 19, 2025 | A Short Story, Fiction
I couldn’t remember if the gun in my hand was loaded. That is where my mind went. Not to the jungle around me. Or the screaming in the distance. Not even to the hazmat suit I was wearing or the fact I was naked under it. No. The first thing I noticed was the MP5...
by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story, Most Popular
The bicentennial celebration was a special day. Two hundred years had passed since Earth was abandoned. The rich, the politicians—anyone with means—fled into the sky, leaving a broken world behind. But centuries later, Earth has been restored. Now the colonists wish...
by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story
Growing up I was told breathing fire did not make me special. I was told nothing lay beyond our walled garden worth seeing, that intruders deserved only death. The firemoon, as my father called it, shone overhead, lighting runes etched into stone walls that he...
by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story
Imagine this: I used to be a normal farm kid until the Darklord took me as his host. For five years, I was a shell for that tyrant who nearly conquered everything. When he fell and I was freed, everyone knew I wasn’t at fault—but having the face of a once-great evil...
