Stories tagged “progress”

  • Towering Inferno

    They stood before the Tower. Once a construct of wonder, the Tower had led them to places unseen and unknown to their kind. Places of beauty and horror, honor and shame, betrayal and redemption. Of the many lives they’d lived there, this last had...

    • Author: Silven
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Progress or Pause

    “I fail to see your point.” Dr. Sauvage, in turn, failed to suppress her sigh, “Keeping your eyes closed is just another way of avoiding reality, isn’t it, Mr. Penz?” No reply came. The small office seemed to pulsate with ...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Editing Process Progress (new words added)

    The projector sits defunct
 Its archaic Haunches fit where the floor is slumped 
A sunken visage punked, 
Clamped together By ties that tether This mosaic 
Of a verklempt attempt to be perfect, Unsure if it’s meant— stumped
 On the s...

  • Making Progress

    “I’m just saying,” Errol hollered over the clangs and hisses, “It’s bloody inefficient.” Denton blinked from behind his goggles and adjusted his grip on the wheel. He made no response but gave a brass outlet valve a ...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted 4 months ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Bleeding Hope

    Some nights… I want to cut out my heart because it sounds so sad beating all by itself. One rhythm of two, echoing only loneliness, again. Then I start to think, maybe i ought to drink… until my tears fall, in to my alcohol. Yet, since I...