Workshop (Evening Theatre) Submissions (2018)
These posts were from five years ago.
Category: Historical Fiction
(Narrative) Snowslide – (Music) 039
Originally published with Fictional Pairings.
By. Joshua Scully Fresh splotches of rain struck windows on the Pullman coach. The pattering of this new precipitation kept Emily Childress awake for…
(Narrative) Snowslide – (Music) 039
FICTION — The Fountain
I wrote this back in the day.
Image – leftofurban The storm had sunk the Consuelo and the Santa Sara, leaving Francisco Herrera and Rodrigo Ibanez as the only sailors able to …
FICTION — The Fountain
FICTION — Columbus Always Was An Asshole
Columbus Day is less than three months away.
The sailors watched with trepidation as lightning ripped a white streak through an angry sky. The wind beat the sea into a seething, blue hellscape. …
FICTION — Columbus Always Was An Asshole
FICTION — Early American Bankers
An old favorite.
Charles Hobbs reached the top of a final hill. The vast winter darkness of the Atlantic stretched out before him. His eyes searched the expanse of …
FICTION — Early American Bankers
FICTION — Icelandic Fairy Tale
One from 2017.
Once upon a time, there was a farmer in one of the northern districts named Andres. He lived with his wife, Hjordis, and their children at …
FICTION — Icelandic Fairy Tale
“Revenge Postmortem”
A piece for the working man.
Although the family feared trouble and planned a special burial, anarchists got the body of George Pullman before the earth did.
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65 million years allow for more than cloning.
“I didn’t leave Lubumbashi to chase shadows!” the hunter shouted. “Where is mokele-mbembe? Where is this Congolese dinosaur?”
“Our Undead Auxiliaries”
The Romans recycled almost everything.
And anything.
Pinned by Vandal hordes, the Romans sought any advantage.
“Move the undead soldiers to the front lines!”
“The Vampire Hunter’s Apprentice: The Count of Coal Country”
“Railroad passes?”
“Check.”
Although he worried he may lose his nerve, he disembarked at Howesville and walked the last six miles to Kingwood.
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A Visit to the Idea Factory 