Briane Pagel
Bio
Author of "Codes" and the upcoming "Translated from the original Shark: A Year Of Stories", both from Golden Fleece Press.
"Life With Unicorns" is about my two youngest children, who have autism.
Find my serial story "Super/Heroic" on Vella.
Stories (24/0)
The Thing About Evolution
The thing about evolution is, it only works when it has to, and once people realized that, really realized it, that shut up the Creationists for once and for all because people realized that if slowly needing to alter one’s physiology meant slowly doing so, then quickly, etc etc, and so people began forcing themselves to quickly evolve by putting themselves into extreme danger.
By Briane Pagel5 months ago in Fiction
This Week They Found A Rock On Mars
This week they found a rock on Mars, which itself isn’t so unlikely Buzz supposed, the entire planet is rocks, really but it was what the rock did that was so amazing to everyone, or maybe it was not so much what the rock did that was amazing but it was what everyone else did, or did not do, that made the rock seem so amazing.
By Briane Pagel9 months ago in Fiction
Where You Are
Where we are is never where we are, which is obvious when you think about all the different ways we are moving. Right now, for example, is no longer right now. It is right then, and we whipped past it at a breakneck speed that would boggle your mind if your mind wasn't already moving faster than that.
By Briane Pagel11 months ago in Fiction
Had I But Just Three Wishes, or The Tale of the Aardvark and the Dragon.
Had I But Just Three Wishes, or The Tale of the Aardvark and the Dragon. An aardvark and a komodo dragon ran into each other one day, an unlikely prospect as one of them lives in its region, and the other lives in its region, and it does not seem as though those regions would overlap. Do not expect more specifics than that about which region each lived in, for what good would it do to tell you that the aardvark roams the savannahs of the southern African continent (if that is what it does, and where it does it, also unlikely, as aardvarks do not seem the type to roam, but more the type to stroll leisurely, or perhaps stand and ruminate for lengthy periods of time)? What good would it do? It is not central to the story, whereas the fact that these two happened to meet, at all, is, in fact, central to the story, as it led to a battle to the death, as so often meetings do.
By Briane Pagel12 months ago in Fiction
A HAPPY STORY ABOUT THE UNIVERSE, AND STUFF.
First there is something, then there is nothing. No wait, that’s reversed. Or is it? So many ways the universe can begin. It can explode into being from nothingalmostnothingImean, or it can be born on the back of a crocodile, the way I think I read once that some cultures believe the universe was born: the crocodile had to carry a frog across a river, I think, and there was a fox too, or maybe a hippo? The details may or may not be unimportant. It is hard to tell, for true stories.
By Briane Pagel2 years ago in Fiction
It Turns Out This Town Is Exactly The Right Size For The Two Of Us.
“Well, well! Black Bart, just coming out of the 5th National Bank, hands full of bags of money and your trusty old revolver! Isn’t it lucky that I just arrived here in time, on this dusty old street, ready to have a shootout with you after first talking a bit.”
By Briane Pagel2 years ago in Fiction
