Governance

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...

Old Man Jasper

A single man controls the entire world. No decision is made without his say. The thing is, he doesn’t know he’s the ruler. All he knows is these men in suits come to his house every Saturday and ask him strange questions. “Gentlemen, gentlemen. Come on...

Ghost of Alexandria

Historian’s Log: Babylon, June 10th, 323 BC. I move as a ghost. Passing through throngs of merchants and beggars and whores and I see this ancient world in all its unfiltered glory. This was the day that Alexander the Great is to die. The cause of Alexander’s...