The Evening Universe

At the end of my journey,

I meet the dying form of a man,

an old musician past his prime,

with a face as gray…

I want to go to Heaven when I die

but something tells me I won’t like it

as much as I do life on Earth and for

that matter Eternity in Hell…

In this tall, sturdy house

Lay an old, wrinkled sleeper;

A lonely old man,

Whom we call the lighthouse keeper…

There are places the worlds are held together

tatted in fine lace of subtle connections.

The silver birch born astride the crumbling

trunk of a decaying ancestor…

The Luminous Emperor brought great wealth and power to the city. He quelled rebellions in the heart of the empire which had threatened the capital city…

Joan drove her car along the winding mountain road. Her thoughts were far away. She has had a hard day in the laboratory where she worked…

If you cut him open you’ll find only a husk. He looks like a person – more or less – on the outside, but that’s where the similarities end…

Jules labored effortlessly at his workstation. He glanced at the customer's specifications intermittently as lines of code poured out of him…

When my parents died, mourners were shocked at their opulent adieu. Few suspected the impressive inheritance they would bequeath to their only child…

I’ve been studying for 2 hours straight. I have an exam on Thursday. I’ve done the math. I’ll need at least an 85% on this exam...

I was on the cusp of greatness, as the first person ever to be fitted with a telepathic communication chip…

I told my son if he held the shell up to his ear he could hear the ocean…

For most Westerners, witches exist only in fiction or in medieval history. But in the Soviet Union in 1980s and in Russia till the middle of 2000s, many people believed…

If you leave hydrogen alone for long enough, it’ll oversimplify and possibly misinterpret complicated science for the sake of a short story…