Stories and Poems

Apo-cat-lypse

By Mriana • May 17, 2011

While you wait for May 21, 2011, I thought I would provide you some apocalyptic entertainment.  Although my satirical story borrows some characters from LOLCats, it

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God's Country–Chapter 2–The Tunnel People

By Dakota O'Leary • February 15, 2011

Queen slipped into the underground chamber, a grin on her face. “The rumors of my capture have been greatly exaggerated, Travis,” she said with a wink. Travis, smiled, and led her down a darkened cement corridor, into a large pump room filled with people. Men, women and children sat around fire barrels talking, eating, sleeping. Those who saw Queen greeted her with a wave or low hellos. These people were Queen’s family. These were the people who had no government IDs; they couldn’t afford them [...]

God's Country–a novel by Dakota O'Leary

By Dakota O'Leary • November 6, 2010

Queen moved silently through the streets. It was after curfew, and she could not afford to be caught. As she moved down an alley, she passed a store raided long ago, whose glass had been knocked out; spray painted on the plywood nailed over the space was “Godless liberals are our misfortune.” Queen paid it no attention; graffiti like this was all over the city. The city had, one hundred years ago, been called New York; when the Sect took over the government and declared martial law in 2012, they had renamed the city New Jerusalem. Some of the more daring opponents of the Sect spray-painted crosses upside down in the alleys but this happened rarely; cameras were everywhere, even hidden in the walls of buildings. Punishment was death for such anti-Sect protests. Better go to church if you live in THIS city…or you could die. Literally.