The Binary Biker

I few years ago I learned that early astronomers, using small telescopes, had discovered what they thought was a moon orbiting Venus. More than one astronomer discovered this moon and documented – only to have it later disappear. What was going on? Was this some new astronomical phenomenon? A moon that could pop in and […]

I submitted this short story to Writer’s Digest for their monthly short story contest. The idea was that you had to write a 750 word story around this idea: “A man received an unmarked package. Inside is a pirate style eye patch and a note.” Unfortunately my entry did not get picked, but now I […]

“You’re a dead human, Sparks.” The alien weapon was pointed menacingly at me. I knew I had only seconds to react; the Sslan were a warrior species hellbent on destroying humans in general and me in particular. Accidentally step on ONE royal larvae and they get all bent out of shape. You’d think they’d have […]

Ernie Gets Mad By Chris Parker “What?” asked the creature, perhaps taking a moment of umbrage at Ernie’s slack-jawed reaction to its presence to breathe. Through nictitating membranes in its eyes. No. No, days of driving over dead bodies… that was weird. Days of making his own food in restaurants filled with the bodies of […]

Another Survivor by Ron Sparks For some reason, Ernie had always expected Texas to be, well, bigger. In every way. The cars he passed on the road were normal cars. The dead people he squished were normal-sized. The buildings looked normal. Of course, they didn’t have Bingo Burger in Texas, apparently. That diminished the Lone […]

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 […]