The water in which the Fish of Revolution swim runs red with some regularity. Occasionally, it's with the orderly ranked red cloaks of the Communist Carp, but as they are the Fish of Revolution, not the Fish of Good Management, rarely does any regime survive even one short fishy lifetime. Revolutions are rarely peaceful, and the blood of ( Read more... )

"And with this beam, I shall convert the target entirely into tachyons, particles consisting of PURE TIME ( Read more... )

To the right eyes, he is wizard. He walks in search of enlightenment unknown, carrying a staff of wood from an unknown tree. In a small pouch he carries a pair of demons. One sings to him secrets of the living and the dead, the other waits to reach out and call to others through the air ( Read more... )

The Grand Sultan's harem was nearly inaccessible. You get that a lot in a certain kind of aristocratic society. Of course, because the Grand Sultan was bogarting all the most beautiful women in the Sultanate, there was plenty of motivation for many a would-be Hero or horny teenager to break into the Harem to rescue one of the ladies (or just ( Read more... )

People look at me weird when I break out dancing in the middle of the street. I guess they don't understand why. I can't understand why people aren't breaking into dance all the time, like in musicals. So many snatches of music get carried around on the winds of the city, there's gotta be something you can boogie to. It's not dignified? What ( Read more... )

"How does it feel, doing dirty work for the lords?" she spat at me ( Read more... )

Mad genii sure love to talk. They'll talk to anybody who'll listen, or who'll hold still long enough. Even if they have to tie them into an overly complicated death-trap to do it. Almost all of them are poorly socialized and introverted. They only have two settings. Off and on. No talking or talking about everything. I should start a ( Read more... )

They say that triple six is the number of the Devil, the damned, and y'know, evil. You never hear much about the number of good, though. I guess evil's more fun, or at least more interesting. And you can be glad you're not them ( Read more... )

"So you're dead ( Read more... )

"Dragons? Feh. They're not ancient magical arbiters of eternity. That's just legends. Things people make up to explain why their son got eaten by a big damn flying lizard. Dragons're just beasties. Big flying lizard beasties that eat whole villages. Because they're big flying lizard beasties, not ancient magic. A human fighting a dragon is ( Read more... )