Scepter of Nowhere, part 7: My Last Day of Light is now posted.
I aimed at the golden satellite more carefully this time, picking which whorls in the design I thought might be the electromagnetic accelerators. I fired again, and again. The unseen ray sliced neatly through the golden sphere, and the release of energies were causing blue incandescence — maybe this was what fires looked like in zero gravity.
Scepter of Nowhere, part 6: Wormwood, is now posted.
I was standing on the white diamond roof of a tower above the edge of the stratosphere. In the same way I could, by an act of will, eliminate the sensation of cold, I made it so the near-vacuum did not disturb me. My skin gleamed with some strange, luminous coating.
Scepter of Nowhere, part 5: The Dancers of Utopia, is now posted.
In the center was a vast open space, paved with crystal clear as air. Underfoot was a ballroom on whose roof I stood. Here an endless congregation of nude figures, male and female, all of perfect form and physique, all adorned with crowns and rings and countless winking gems, were dancing in a long and sinuous line.
Scepter of Nowhere, part 4: The Spiral Tower, is now posted.
It was the work of titans. It was a spiral tower of bronze and black metal, bright as a looking glass, easily half a mile across at its base, twisted like the horn of a unicorn, rising course upon course. Like an aqueduct, there reared arch after black arch, holding gates wide enough that an army eager to storm heaven could have emerged.
Scepter of Nowhere, part 3: I Could Not Catch Her, is now posted.
Fast as I trotted, I somehow could not catch her. She always was just out of reach, and in the blustery wind, just out of earshot.
Scepter of Nowhere, part 2: I Opened my Eyes with Joy, is now posted.
I opened my eyes, overwhelmed with a sense of joy. Eyesight had been restored to me. Light was mine. I was afraid that if I blinked, surely the sight would turn out to be delirium, and unending darkness would return.
Eventually I turned my head. I was lying, naked, in a bright chamber larger than a ballroom.
Scepter of Nowhere, part 1: It Happened So Quickly, is now posted.
It happened so quickly. We used to be human beings, you see. When I heard the bomb go off, I ran to the door at the end of the corridor.
