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Weekly Contest #366
“Oh, geez,” I say, peering into the open, empty casket. “So they never found his body?”The grieving parents glare at me reproachfully. The mother is openly weeping and the father isn’t but his eyes are suspiciously misty.“They didn’t,” he says to me politely. I want to laugh in his face but I don’t, because that would be rude.“You sure he’s dead, then?”Now he’s really glaring at me, so I decide it’s high time to beat it. I don’t really want to leave the premises yet, though, so I slink off into the crowd until my ears alight upon a conversat...
Weekly Contest #347
Eve is the name of a spaceship, and Eve lays rotting on the floor. The sleek chrome carapace of her hull is crusted over with vines and roots of trees which have grown in this place for a long, long time, and will continue to grow up and around and through her without regard for how her poor shell contorts to fit them. The light filters green through the canopy above and strikes her body the same as it strikes the grass beneath her. The hull, which contains her navigation complex, is ironically the most preserved part of her. It means that t...
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