About once a month, one of the citizens of Ultima, the last city on Earth, would come to the office of the president to complain…
Three voices. One literary house.
Month: March 2026
Whoever it was that said every man had to go through hell to reach his paradise better have been right. Once again I found myself…
“While the heart is awake, the ego is asleep.” Bitter old men in ancient temples have always found a way to elevate human beings into…
“Forgive me, Great Mother, for I have sinned. It has been several lifetimes since my last confession.” In 1839, before the First Opium War, the…
The following document is a field report submitted in March of 1995 concerning an incident involving several members of an illegal organization known as “crusties”…
Lynn walked the streets of the Rim with purpose and with confidence. Even though everyone who lived out there knew her as a serious woman,…
President Taryn sat at her impressively large and incredibly old desk and stared off into space. For more than twenty years she had sat at…
Poor people commit crimes because they’re broke. Rich people commit crimes because they’re broken. The rest of us commit crimes because we’re bored. “Brother Rook!”…
The northernmost island of Shanqui Jian was the Island of Pain, with its mountain peaks, high-altitude steps, and cable cars. It held the university campus,…
Mama Muni was the university’s librarian. She was forgiving and sweet, sharp-witted and patient. She was a matron to even the older women in the…
A collective of dolphins is called a pod. A group of ravens is known as a congress. A parliament of owls. A sangha of Buddhists.…