Stories tagged “Caeloöpticon”

  • Caeloöpticon I

    Sing in me, Muse, the language you require T’relate the tale of soldiers far from now, Who fought in seas of reddish-tinted sands, Under infernal skies, inhuman suns, And blackest of abysses that exist To keep the peace and maintain liberty For t...

  • Caeloöpticon II

    Upon the rise so many years from now Of moons so vast in scope and spher’cal shape And foreign worlds, so inhospitable And megacorporations all about Did humans come to strut about the stage, Who like the eagles with unfurling wings Dared soar ac...

  • Caeloöpticon III

    The triple suns of Perurere F Had ris’n as one in all their glorious light This rare event but happened only once In fifty-seven years and eighty days Of local time, a painful reckoning Of ninety-hour days of Earth, with years About the same as G...

  • Caeloöpticon IV

    One Corporal Fortiss was a man of strength Unmatched by many living in the times In which he lived along with other men, And also one of honor similar. He came to Perurere F because He volunteered to journey to that slum, As no one else would do so wil...

  • Caeloöpticon V

    The men were briefed about the colony That did exist, if one could call it that, On Perurere F, so far from home. A hundred years the light took, and a score, To journey there from gleaming orbs on Earth. The air was hot, the atmosphere was thick And h...

  • Caeloöpticon VI

    The city, called Del Naja by its folk, In twilight dim now found itself immersed, And local men and women ran around As chickens, when decerebated, do Because the banished suns relinquished their Omnipotent and unremitting gaze That kept the city watch...

  • Caeloöpticon VII

    The suns in trine had set, and fading day Transmuted totally into the form Of blackened skies, the darkened vault of gods Who, outlined in the stars, would circle ‘round Precessing poles of human colonies. Goodfellow and good Fortiss both saunter...

  • Caeloöpticon VIII

    At Fortiss’ utterance, Goodfellow broke Into a bout of laughter most intense. His face contorted into a grin so wide The distance of one end to other end Seemed greater than the planet’s second moon. “My friend,” Goodfellow comp...

  • Caeloöpticon IX

    “Get ready, friend,” Goodfellow orderèd As both Colonial Marines did walk Towards Del Naja’s infamous Downtown. ’Twas thought by many to be much worse than The desert that surrounded the city, And certainly it seemed to be the ...

  • Caeloöpticon X

    The much-foreboding cloak of blackest night Had covered Perurere’s hemisphere Completely as it could, as was its way, And forty hours of black would dominate; The forty hours of sun and five between, Arising from the terminator caused By th’...

  • Caeloöpticon XI

    The two Marines rushed headlong to a brawl, An altercation in between ten men, Of whom but six were certainly deceased, Their vicious, wicked lives cut short by slug. Goodfellow asked, “What’s going on in here?” The six gazed icily in...

  • Caeloöpticon XII

    The two Marines had only stepped outside When Fortiss seized Goodfellow bodily, And shook the man in rig’rous righteous rage. “How dare you go against your given vows?!” Demanded Fortiss, staring in his eyes. The other, younger man go...

  • Caeloöpticon XIII

    “I believed you a better man than this!” Spat Fortiss, grave in tone and much repulsed. “Goodfellow, you are cowed by such ingrates, Those vagrants that you pledged you would wipe out?” “I’m sorry that I am but norma...

  • Caeloöpticon XIV

    Thus Fortiss and Goodfellow soon arrived To find a damsel in severe distress At hands of awful thugs of acid blood Who knew no kindness, honor, or respect Save that they showered on their overlords And even then only to serve their means To gain in pow...

  • Caeloöpticon XV

    But Fortiss would have none of this charade. “Unhand her now,” commanded the Marine, “Or face the business end of firearms.” The leader stared, and suddenly guffawed; His men, relaxing, also laughed at him. Goodfellow tugged his...

  • Caeloöpticon XVI

    The shot was done at point-blank range of fire, The gush of blood and brains did epically Throw spatter, bleaching all the walls with red Of violent life which ended violently, Exacted to protect the powerless Recipient of the happenstances as Great Fo...

  • Caeloöpticon XVII

    The four illeg’ly operating men Were flabbergasted by this sudden change Of status quo that Fortiss brought about. They truly feared the repercussions of An action that they now would undertake, Their impetus of will revoked when came Th’ma...

  • Caeloöpticon XVIII

    Then turned brave Fortiss to the woman who From all her malefactors he had saved, Addressing her, saying the following: “Are you all right, ma’am? We’ll get a doctor.” The lady, struck from speech by those brave acts, As never h...

  • Caeloöpticon XIX

    When Fortiss prepped for his next duty shift, Which, though the day had come to change on Earth, Was still the night on Perurere F, A man of greater rank did beckon him And out in open air proceeded to Call Fortiss out on the carpet For “acting o...

  • Caeloöpticon XX

    The officer misliked the stated goals Of Fortiss, so, angry, he stompèd off And made designs to strip great Fortiss of The powers which to him had been invest, But he did not get far, for lo! a bomb, Which, masquerading as a piece of mail Intent on be...

  • Caeloöpticon XXI

    But Fortiss and his efforts still could not Purge the caverns of quite all their ills, And some of the more lecherous cartels Who stopped at nothing and would stoop as low As was required to suit the tasks at hand And therefore had such magnitudes of h...

  • Caeloöpticon XXII

    The agent, serpentine, contacted his Commander, whose authority was vast, Extending over several colonies And even the First Home itself, as well, Relaying him the tale of Fortiss’ life, And of his cherished wife and child. His leader, Hostes, si...