The Binary Biker

The Great Western Exodus by Chris Parker You wouldn’t call Ernie’s Great Western Exodus hard, exactly. You might call it a pain in the ass. If you were alive. But you’re not. Only Ernie is alive. He definitely found it a pain in the ass, especially after having driven over several thousand people (he’d lost […]

Bingo Burger by Ron Sparks I’m hungry. This is a thought Ernie had quite often. It was such a frequent and welcome thought that it had it’s own room reserved right at the front of his brain, near the occipital lobe. Great views there, but everything was upside down. Still, as rooms for thoughts went, […]

Britney’s Nipples by Chris Parker “Oh.” Not ohm. Oh. Ernie never fancied himself the metaphysical sort. However, he did spend this moment enlightening himself to a few of the inner mysteries of the scene before him. For instance: no one was sleeping, they all happened to be dead. They were dead. Their dogs were dead. […]

Mexican Chili Standoff by Ron Sparks The world ended while Ernie was on the toilet. Literally ended. Life ceased to exist. All around the world billions of humans, trillions on insects, multitudes of mammals, avian, reptiles and all other forms of life just stopped what they were doing, looked around in mild confusion, and then […]

When Douglas Adams died I was devastated. He wrote some of the most loved and read science-fictions stories of all time: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. For a long time I wanted to write a comedic science-fiction story, not to emulate him, but to honor one of my favorite authors. Of course, there’s […]

Author: Chris Parker God bless modern medical technology, of course. The EMT, level-headed and a credit to his profession, had defib paddles on Eric’s chest just as soon as the dramatic monotone of the EKG shattered the initial calm of the ambulance’s interior. All Sarah could do was watch, dully aware that the last conversation […]

Author: Ron Sparks Sarah looked at the clock impatiently. American Postmodernism Poetry was an interesting class, but there was only so much whiny poet she could handle in a day. All these depressed poets using their poems to confess sins or deep psychological issues; it’s no wonder so many goth chicks like poetry, she mused. […]

Author: Teri Eaton Dr. Sais’s outer office was unreasonably warm, but that did little to lessen the cold knot in the pit of Eric’s stomach. You were only ever summoned to see the big boss when you invented something that would make the Corporation millions, or the opposite. Eric had only met the man once, […]

Author: Ron Sparks “That’s not supposed to be there,” Eric said as he relinquished control of the eyepiece to Sarah. She looked through the lens, “What isn’t?” “You’re looking at Venus. Venus doesn’t have a moon, but if you look right there, on the right, you can clearly see something there.” “Maybe an asteroid?” Eric […]

My good friend Teri over at IrrationalCat and I have been writing together for years. One of the things we like to do is write very short chapters, just a couple of hundred words, and fire it back to the the other. We write back and forth this way – creating a story organically. We […]