May 2017 – Something Like Nonsense

Fort Stupid

May 9, 2017 Jason Them

Whatever was calling to him, Zero was certain he liked it. The further he went toward whatever the thing was, the more of them he came across. And the more of them he came across, the more of them he got to burn.

If only he could get a damned vehicle to work. None of them worked. It didn’t matter how much gas they had, or what kind of condition they were in, they simply did not work. Damn all this walking. Walk walk walk walk walk. He wasn’t even sure how many days he had been walking.

But there were more of them to burn in this direction, and so he kept walking.

Fort Hilltop

May 8, 2017 Jason Them

“Twenty-one adults and five children, all present and accounted for, ma’am!” Jasper was always so formal.

“Good, now go get some rest, and please do not call me ma’am.” Alice knew that last part would be ignored, as always, but she said it anyway. She couldn’t help but like Jasper. He was eager to learn, willing to work, and hadn’t yet adopted the doom-and-gloom attitude of most of the rest of the group.

The Bathroom Window

May 8, 2017 Jason Horror

When I was a boy, I shared a room with my brother. We lived in a small square house. I’m not kidding, the house was remarkably square from the outside. I’m pretty sure it was the exact same dimensions on each side, but that’s not important.

My room was across the hall from my parents’ room. They were the only two bedrooms in the house. The hall was tiny, about twice as long as it was wide, and had one of those old-timey floor heaters in it–the kind that’s basically just a huge grate in the floor. I still don’t know how those heaters worked, I just know that I used to stretch my legs across it in the morning to get warm in the winter. Our bedroom was at one end, my parents’ at the other, and in-between them was a bathroom. Imagine a small room about one and a half the width of a doorway, and twice as long. That was the hallway. The bedrooms were on the ends, the bathroom in the middle, and the other doorway opened into the living room. The bathroom was the only one in the house.