Rachel47 couldn’t remember the last time she left the capital. Not because it was so long ago but because the last time she left her…
Three voices. One literary house.
Author: Mel Rook
Mel Rook is a liberal, radical, sex addict who smokes weed, drinks Jack Daniels and likes to yell at his favorite sports teams on television.
He writes short fiction, poetry and essays. The work spans historical, contemporary, and speculative settings, with recurring characters, systems, and questions that echo across stories without requiring sequence or completion because time is an illusion. Read his stories or not, just don't waste his time.
He has a cat named Marvin.
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…
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…
Rachel couldn’t move voluntarily because every muscle in her body was so tense that she shook. “Have you been drinking tonight, ma’am? Do you have…
A young woman entered the office of the president carrying a worn piece of paper. Communication was under constant surveillance, so citizens sent private messages…
President Taryn tapped her well-manicured fingers on her well-worn mahogany desk. It was a beautiful relic, she thought, enjoying the sound of each of the…
The evening’s haze diffused the fading light of the setting sun beautifully as my craft descended and landed safely onto the planet surface. Thank the…
Caroline worked hard for the limited respect her colleagues afforded her. She was a proud woman, an accomplished geneticist and a competent chess player. At…
Lynn, number 108, because that was the number of times she had died, threw her arms wide to the friends, fans and patrons who had…
The sun, relentless and unsettling, slipped slowly behind the horizon beyond the walls of the walled city that had once been Wichita, Kansas, now home…