by Pat Bove | Jan 21, 2025 | A Short Story
A glass pane covered in runes the Knight did not understand separated him and the corpse of the slain Demon King—runes that Valôr first mistook for the usual glyphs of dark sorcery, yet they glowed with an odd symmetry. The Wyrd Interlude: In a Wyrd Realm of steel and...
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 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 17, 2025 | A Short Story
The alarm sounded throughout the archive facility. Flashing lights of red and white sliced through the sterile corridors of steel. The air hummed faintly, a reminder of the facility’s immense power grid. Inlaid panels displayed cryptic readouts, pulsating dark red as...
by Pat Bove | Jan 17, 2025 | Flash Fiction
There was a jumper that morning. I felt nothing. I usually run the Brooklyn Bridge every morning, but that day, twirling red and blue lights disrupted the routine. A crowd had formed around the police blockade. “He was wearing a suit,” someone said. “Must be some...
