Stories tagged “Odyssey”

  • What Fools

    It is for Odysseus that my heart bleeds. How long ago did I say those words? I thought my father uncaring for them, but he was right. He always was, it seems, save when the Fates spoke against him. Different names. Different faces. Still they blame us ...

  • A Modern Odyssey

    The sand surrounding became cold like the night sky around him. Walking out of the building that kept him safe, he found himself alone. Men around him dead. He thought of the children slaughtered. The innocent men dead. But this was not his fault. He ...

  • Space Odyssey

    “Capt. Williams to portside command post STAT” The automatic door to command post 5 opened briskly as a tall, well-built man entered the room. “This better be important if you are taking me away from my anniversary dinner.” Capt...

    • Author: flybynight
    • Posted about 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Space Odyssey pt. 2

    “Well done men. Now if you’ll excuse me I will return to my dinner.” Capt. Williams said. With the Falcon destroyed and nothing else on the radar, the crew of USS Starscream relaxed. Having arrived back at his quaters, Capt. Williams ...

  • LARP Character - Mesupet 1

    The message had arrived at dusk, on the fleeing remnants of his fleet. Alexander was dead, smashed by the gods at Babylon. Mesupet had been in her study ever since. The fire devoured the sheets of papyrus so eagerly, curling and charring hours of writi...