The Pink Crystal — NOTE: This is merely the opening “introduction” section of Chapter Five. The full piece will publish soon, and act as a final part to the ongoing “Maian Tiger Trilogy”. A Decent fortnight lasts — by our current calculations — for a further eight days than its cosmic counterpart. A week…

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Comments from The Immaculate Lab on the nature of rare elemental discoveries. — 01. Beveron (Bv) Atomic Number: 120 Atomic Weight: 300.46 Beveron was first discovered beneath the oceans of Ūdan-III. Hoarded by the mermaids and their kin, this magnificent substance holds a perpetual liquid state; regardless of its temperature. We use it as a solar lubricant, whenever a star is in our proximity. The brutish working classes were responsible for quite…

A piece of new music, and an explanation of absence. — It’s been another one of those times, where I’m absent from Medium for quite a while. I hate it when this happens, and I miss your work as much as posting. It’s always the same reasons that cause it; exhaustion, busyness and mental turmoil. The latter sounds worse than it…

Sally O’Malley (a diamond unpolished, hurled into the ocean) — As Petey stood alone and cold in a bright chamber, awaiting his vision of death, his mind wandered nostalgic paths; winding memory lanes. All roads led to more precious reminiscence, more tragic regrets. He heard a sound from the adjoining room — a kind of klaxon, a kind of scream…

Inspired by a local group of scribes — 365 days, 366 in a leap year. An entire chapter of your life, segmented down to four seasons. Winter starts the crawl, a single mitten in the snow. A sled across the car park sludge. A dinner with a stranger. The scraper on a frosty car windshield cracks the ice. …

Written in Stone (typed in microsoft word) — Push button. His dusted, dated desktop Dell chugged into gear as if governed by churning teams of cogs. Force slow legs stand, shimmy into kitchen. He always avoided the creaking floorboard, but — as his health began to reflect his age — he couldn’t help the strained sinew in his…

An Explanation (let me take you by the hand) — The ACME Company was everything to everyone around it. As fundamental as water to our survival, there were utterly no revolutionaries against the peculiar establishment. …

Comments from The Immaculate Lab on the nature of rare elemental discoveries. — This is part of a spinoff, based on a larger work; A Decent Land. For more, see this full list, or start from the very beginning! 10. Hugon Nightclubs in the richest districts fill the sky with vivid lights, dancing ‘pon the films of skin that shelter us from space. …