Fabulous Modern Fables!

once I became a teenager. She became my confidant, The favourite aunt I could run too when life with my parents was too intense and resulted in screaming matches and door slammings. I would stuff some clothes into a rucksack and storm out of the house vowing that I would never ever cross the... Sign in to see full entry.

She was slender and dark eyed with a heart shaped face, high cheek bones and aristocratic nose. Eva looked Jewish if there is such a thing as looking 'Jewish'. My mother was the fair one with a broad comfortable figure. They saw each other at least twice a week for coffee or shopped together on some... Sign in to see full entry.

She was originally my mother's best friend from Poland. They both fled the country during the mid twentieth century for different reasons, from the same pursuer. My mother was Polish Jew and she, Eva was a Polish Communist. Neither was to prove popular with the Nazis. The point being that the Nazis... Sign in to see full entry.

Handfuls of rose petals fluttered down to rest on the moist soil at the side of the grave, pink and yellow tokens of affection from the few friends gathered there. Her family were long gone. She had no children. The only other people audience to her last journey were two grave diggers, sleeves... Sign in to see full entry.

ALIX –(formerly The Water Spirit) I arrange the tables. Business has picked up. We have served more pepper soup and kebabs in the last two nights than in the previous three weeks since we opened the cafe. Word has gone out to the Africans, living illegally in south Tel Aviv that there is an African... Sign in to see full entry.

Lately there has been some problems with the young of the target species on E51 gorging themselves with fodder at the established outlets. This makes them too fat too quickly. They are going to have to make some adjustments with the telepathic messaging to the corporate heads of the outlets and get... Sign in to see full entry.

Animal rights liberationists have been giving the government some enormous problems of late. Chief among their complaints was that the system of slaughter and processing used by the Dallian Harvest ships was barbaric. How ever nothing could be further from the truth. The animals were anesthetised by... Sign in to see full entry.

He turned the dials up towards maximum input. Really they needed to watch the salt and fat intake on planet E51 as it was detrimental to the end product and spoiled the meat. Balleen sighed and waved his left antennae impatiently tapping the monitor screen as he thought about a solution to the... Sign in to see full entry.

on modern life through sci fi genre.:-( Sign in to see full entry.

He turned the dials up towards maximum input. Really they needed to watch the salt and fat intake on planet E51 as it was detrimental to the end product and spoiled the meat. Balleen sighed and waved his left antennae impatiently tapping the monitor screen as he thought about a solution to the... Sign in to see full entry.