Joshua Carter
I write to save my mind from the terrible world that I have to live in.
The bus pulled into the town at close to dusk. I seemed to be the only one that was disembarking on this stop. Not to unusual. Though the people that where left on the bus seemed to stare at m...
I am braced in the door of the engine. My suit reaks of fear and sweat. My first time going out into the high wilderness atleast away from the ramshackle safety that I got inside the old “time ...
My gut said to turn around. Leave it and make money somewhere else, but greed...greed has a way downing out your better voices.
It looked like it would be raining for the advance. The field infront of the walls was already a muddy mess from the engineers plying their trade. The trench works and the mines, that had snaked th...
The company stood in disciplined ranks waiting for the order to move out into the greater city area. They were moving out to the outer wall that surrounded the tower of guard. Once a wide open...
The kid wasn’t sure when he finally passed out. All he could remember was staring at the dying coals of the fire and the sound of the bounty men that were on watch periodically moving to wake ...
The smell. That’s what would stick with them. The devastation was terrible to behold, but the smell. The smell of homes, livestock, and the people that couldn’t get away from the flames. Some ...
I sit on the embarkation deck. The glow globes provided almost no light. That really didn’t matter, because I am alone here. There is nothing but the sound of the engines and my own thoughts. A mo...
The rain streaked down with a steady rumble. The same way it had done all day. The same way it had done all week. The constant drone adding to the back ground of everything else that was life on th...
The ringing woke me like always. Internal time clock said it was to damn early. Hard fluorescent lights cutting on beckoning me away from any chance of more sleep. A long sigh and i pulled my...
The small band of men traced there lineage back to the the rangers and men of beorne that lived in the north in the early ages. They hunt the woods and wild places offering there finds for supp...
He spent the last part of the night back in the wood line well away from the small village. Far enough away that his preparations wouldn’t be heard or disturbed. Honing and stropping the wide t...
The convoy of transport ships fell out of hyperspace in a tight formation that's form was a credit to long training, and many runs of the same route. It was the third formation to come through...