Dark Knight
June 3, 2022“Where is it?“ Lightning illuminated his face. Harsh light revealed first wrinkles and greasy hair. Wind blew the window open and knocked his trophy from the sill. He picked it up, cleaned a bit of dust from it, and placed the cup on a higher shelf. He cursed. How come he, the Dragon Slayer, the Unchallenged Champion of the Three Kingdoms, could not find a thing in his study? It was not the first time he browsed the drawers. They contained many treasures just pushed there from the desk, or hidden in a hurry, like random nails and screws, rubber…
Escape
She sped up. Water splashed under her heavy boots. Rain and sweat damaged her makeup and now her cheeks glittered in green and black. She pulled the strings off the hood to conceal her skin. They were gaining on her.…
Misfire
Electric guitar solo echoed through lower decks of the ship, losing more and more notes until it turned into high pitch screeching. ‘Shouldn’t he be listening to something smoother by now?’ ‘Never ask him that,’ the Chief Engineer said to…
Complimenting Irish
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Make love, not war
Sex! If that’s not an attention grabber, I don’t know what it. I believe that we don’t have enough of it in our lives. You’d think I don’t need to do much convincing, yet there is still a lot of…
Writers in a group
I imagined the a writers’ group would consist of big egos, introverted geniuses, eccentric apparel, wild hairstyles, strong alcohol, rims of crumpled paper and heated arguments till early hours in the morning. Instead we meet at a reasonable 7 pm…
Is there anybody out there?
Irish SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) HQ Today 9:07 Kate clocks-in a bit late. Her supervisor will notice. As if those few minutes make any difference. If there is an intelligent life out there, obviously they wouldn’t transmit the message…
The perfect sound
‘How does it sound?’ ‘I don’t know, Trish.’ ‘I’m telling you, the plan is perfect. They will never suspect it.’ Tim wasn’t convinced. She always had crazy ideas and at least once a month came up with a scheme to…
Five a day
‘They never knock.’ ‘They are the masters after all.’ ‘It doesn’t excuse the lack of manners,’ said Carrot. ‘Opening and closing the fridge any time they feel like it. I hate this hot draft.’ She went on and on about…
Grandpa’s Scrabbled Eggs with Butter and Petrarca
My grandpa Zygmunt had never dropped us. He was always there to catch us when we jumped of a rock into his arms. The rocks were first just a foot high, then we climbed higher and higher and he was…
Commute
Seizing a day, living a dream, all sound nice and well, but the reality is that so much time we have to spend doing things that are not really our favourites. Exchanging our freedom for food and shelter, and sun…
