Harvest Day
"You just try to get 'em in the head. Neck'll work too. Wanna preserve the innards, understand?"
The Lynx and the Sparrow
The robins know they were once sparrows, distant cousins to those that exist alongside them today. This was before the Great Flood, when the ice sheet still pushed down from the north, blanketing the land.
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.
Political Pie
No, I do not fear pies. My fear is of what the robot will do to reach me. Its programming is cold, inflexible, and its calculations cruel. If people stand in its way, if they act to impede its progress - or, God forbid, attack it...
Forget-Me-Not
My arms are leaves. My heart is a severed stem. My eyes are yellow fornices. I am the Forget-Me-Not god.