Harvest Day
"You just try to get 'em in the head. Neck'll work too. Wanna preserve the innards, understand?"
The House That Jack Built
Jack Bearing, the biochemist who discovered Xylem-28, was televised aboard the inaugural flight, watching proudly as the faint red dust of promised renewal was released over the ashen scar that had been the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
The Seraph
Miguel is my greatest challenge yet, and I am determined to win his mind back to reality, at least enough to make him once again functional and cognizant of his true self. He terrifies me more, I admit, than any other patient I've had.
Halifax Haunt
I waited there, speaking aloud to the room a bit, asking for any presences to make themselves known--telling them, even, that I searched only for company. Connection. A simple chat.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
When the craft did arrive a few days later, their first act was a show of force, in which they vaporized 80% of the Siberian forests in a matter of minutes, having determined that there were no bananas being cultivated there. Earth's military option was quickly dropped.
Free Will
As though our visitor had tailored its request based on some vision of all those possible futures, exactly one million, just as it had asked for, volunteered with this same act of free will, the same commitment of spirit, to be exchanged for the healing of our blasted and dying home world.