lightening storm.
Pulpy pushes himself up from the ice trying to clear the cob webs and electrical obstructions from his head when a big foot steps down on the back of his head driving his face nose first forcefully into the snow and ice. Mallory digs, grinds, and pushes his foot down with more and more pressure until Pulpy reaches back and with all his reach and strength twists and breaks the ankle of the Frost Giant.
He gets to his feet to see Mallory limping back basically on one leg but instead of an anguished look on his face, Mallory was smiling.
That image would unnerve most people but there isn’t many like Pulpy in the universe. This did not unnerve him but set him on a clear path of what he had to do.
‘That’s twice I held back and you got the advantage of me. Now I’m not going to let up until I’m done with you.’
‘I am a scout of the Royal Guard of the Mighty Niflheimr. We have blooded Thor, we have questioned Odin, we are the Frost Giants, and we are of song and legend. Don’t ever hold back warrior, true warriors do not unless they wish to die.’
Pulpy hovers an unnoticed inch above the snowy surface. There are a few minutes of calm as the cold winds blow Pulpy’s cape around him like a shroud.
Then with a sudden speed of fury he flies right at Mallory and grabs him in the mouth by his upper jaw and ascends into the air and begins to faster and faster race around the planet. So many countries defense radars pick him up for only a brief period, not even enough time to identify the sighting as being him.
The whole trip around the planet Mallory was biting, fighting, scratching at Pulpy’s hand and arm trying to free him but when Pulpy stopped at a point and hovered in the air, the time still wasn’t long enough for him to react because Pulpy then jerked his hand braking the Frost Giant’s jaw.
Then he let go of his grip.
Mallory started falling and Pulpy placed his knees to the back of him and rode him down until they impacted with the blackened ice with a contact that split the large iceberg into two still pretty large icebergs.
The shockwaves from the impact was felt at the Russian Floating Stations who reported an earthquake back to their superiors. They truthfully didn’t have any idea what it was but they would make up something to make them sound as smart as they are paid to be.
Pulpy pulled Mallory from the water once again but this time there was more blood, more open wounds, and there was also no life within the body of the Jotun warrior scout.
Through his communication disc, which wasn’t working that great because it was in the middle of self repairs from the kick to the head he took earlier, he was able to contact his handlers to send for a military unit to pick up the body of the Frost Giant.
‘I will wait until the Recover Team arrives but I will need to investigate the area for more of his kind as soon as possible.’
But Pulpy will not find more Frost Giants because the moment when they sent out their first scout the rest of them moved to a new location because the stories of legend forgot to mention one thing about them. They are not stupid creatures who fought with clubs and spears. They are master strategists and knew the sort of thing that could happen when sending out a warrior scout. They have already moved on to another location to plan part two of their entry into the modern world.
Their next moved will not give signs of them coming. They will never scream sounds of war. When they attack humanity will only have time to turn around and see many of their loved ones dead already and the battlefield a hopeless cause.
‘Don’t make me go all Chris Beniot on you. I'll seriously choke you out like a five year old boy.’ Karen
She was standing in line for the mock up control room tour at K.S.C. with Fox, Gail, and Jeff. She was arguing with him because he was saying oubliette and obelisk was the same thing.
‘It’s like his Though slash Although thing.’ Fox
‘Ok, everyone is ganging up on me. Can’t we get back to picking on Gail?’ Jeff
‘Hey!’ Gail
‘Ok, I’m all for that.’ Karen
‘Stop setting up my “Heys”’ Gail
The line moved forward and they moved in time into a large empty room. The lights went down and a film started on the early space program. Jeff nudged Fox to looking to the side of them where he had spotted a woman with a kid on a backpack lease.
‘So that’s how you keep ginger kids in line?’ Fox
A speaker voice came over an intercom, ‘Your control room tour will be delayed a few minutes so please enjoy this film on the fly boys who braved the skies to birth the space program.’
While Jeff, Fox, and Karen talked much to the enounce of an old couple near them about grandma porn and its positives and negatives, Gail over hears a conversation by the two N.A.S.A. officials who were the ones who had been conducting the tour.
‘Their using the control room since its usage can’t be tracked to see what the floating stations up there are doing since the battle went down. They think the Russians might make a move to capture whatever that thing was.’
‘They ant going against our big ass kicker. No way, they don’t have any fire power that even equals Pulpy the same as everyone else.’
Gail was going to keep listening to what the men were saying but Karen punched her in the arm, ‘Why are you zoned out little sister?’
‘I was listening to the tour guides talk.’
Everyone was staring at her.
‘What?’
‘How in the Hell were you doing that, they’re on the other side of the room with a crowd of noisy kids between us and them?’ Karen
‘No the….’ Gail stopped. She thought they were right in front of her but now she saw they were on the other side of the room and the room was really crowded and noisy. She could scarcely hear her sister talk now as her brain was fading out but no matter the noise levels she could see the look from them. She had once again done something really strange.
Another new strange had entered in how she lives.
Notes From The Author
9 QUESTION INTERVIEW:
Q-Why did you choose to do monthly short story series?
a-Deciding to do these series, the terminology I’m using with them, and the stories themselves are greatly influenced by my love for comic books. So the reasons behind deciding on monthly short stories finds itself in that love. Also although I’ve written two books I had always had more of a feel for writing short stories and was planning to release a number of short story collections. People have even committed about the smaller length of my novels compared to other novels, even though I personally think digital books should be shorter than a lot of paper published books. I decided it might be cool to release a monthly digital short story series instead of a collection because I didn’t see anyone else doing it either. When it comes down to making the decision it had as much as anything to do with me wanting each of my projects to be unique and even with these being two monthly short story series I really want each one to stand out from the other from the stories, to the way they are written, and the covers for each issue.
Q-Does this mean you will not be writing any more novels anytime soon? And if you are will your next book be set in one of your already established universes?
a-I won’t be releasing a book this year because I spent this year working on the stories for these series but since I have four plus years of first draft short stories written that gives me a head start on things on the monthly short story front and I will be also writing my third novel next year for Dec. 2012.
On the question of if it will be set in one of my already introduced universes, I really don’t want to say right now.
A little bit on this topic. I do plan to collect these short stories into digital collections a few months after a storyline ends just as comics do with trade paperbacks. These collections will be priced at my normal book pricing model for a book, though the first collection will be really cheap to help draw in readers. Just another way to try and give readers alternatives in ho
w they can read the stories.
Q-How about paper publishing? Any chance on seeing any of the collections of the stories finding their way into print?
a-Yes if demand is there. I’d love to see these stories end up in bookstores and libraries in that way but I’m not slamming down a big amount of money either just to feed my own ego at seeing my books in that way.
Q-Will the two series be available per any sort of subscription?
Q-Why are you doing two bimonthly series instead of one monthly?
a-One series {Tin Universe} focuses on stories through my main universe of writing; while the other series {Chaos Read} will not focus on one specific universe all the time and will be more of a multiverse type of series with the writers having fun playing with styles, forms, and directions in writing.
Q-What do you think a monthly series will offer to readers that a collection wouldn’t do?
a-I love continuing stories such as comics, TV series,
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