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 | Absurd Flash Fiction
In the near future, Santa has changed industries due to the high request rates for peace on earth. During the year he has a modified military grade sleigh and goes on guerilla missions to take down oppressive regimes. Sleigh bells ring. Are you listenin’? The words...
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...
by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story
Across countless worlds, there are forty-two originators of existence. The deity who watches over our world is like a quiet mentor who never enforces curfew, allowing us to roam free, to make our own choices without stern retribution. The others view this leniency as...
