Dan Babitsenko
Bio
Trying to be Bradbury, but can only be myself
Dipping the toes into the world of science fiction and magical realism, one short-story at a time.
With love from London, UK
Stories (21/0)
Cake that you will never forget!
Cake that you will never forget! When I was around 9, I developed an insatiable lust for chocolate in any form or shape, anything I could get my hands on. My parents used to joke that I might be in need of my own chocolate factory in the backyard, right next to my trampoline and treehouse. It all started with innocent Mars bars and quickly escalated to candy, ice-cream, even hot chocolate, which wasn’t quite what I was after, but it did its job well during long and lonely winter evenings.
By Dan Babitsenko3 years ago in Fiction
Children of the Barn
Children of the Barn Chapter 4 Belle Plaine greeted 24th of December with a whole lot of snow. While kids were testing the limits of their trusty plastic sledges at breakneck speeds, fathers were busy dancing with the shovels, doing their best to clear the path to the house. Mothers were getting a head start on the cumbersome yet honourable task of a Christmas Eve dinner. More snow was expected during the day.
By Dan Babitsenko3 years ago in Fiction
Children of the Barn
Children of the Barn Chapter 3 The Christmas party at the barn that year was supposed to be a massive success. Pete used to really dislike Christmas, with its pointless presents and fake family portraits, where everyone is dressed in matching sweaters. He always thought that people were missing the point of this holiday, and corporations were getting filthy rich cashing in on this ignorance. Children were growing up demanding more and more presents, that were mostly made in the Far East, in sweatshops, by much less fortunate children. A month later the new gadget went out of fashion and found its final resting place in a landfill. 12 months later the vicious cycle repeated itself.
By Dan Babitsenko3 years ago in Fiction
Children of the Barn
Children of the Barn Chapter 2 People were mainly arriving in their own cars and trucks, but the next day Pete heard an earth-shattering horn of an old Greyhound bus trying to make a U-turn on the road. A quick mental calculation put a smile on Pete’s face. That day he also gave his first ever interview to a local cable news network. He was a bit starstruck seeing that awfully pretty reporter Gale Anderson for the first time in real life, but he handled himself well and even talked a bit about his own faith, how he thought he lost it and how the image in his barn helped him find God again. It felt surprisingly good to be listened to.
By Dan Babitsenko3 years ago in Fiction
Children of the Barn
Children of the Barn Chapter 1 Pete spent the whole Friday carefully going through the supply of raw timber planks in Westlake Ace hardware store. Being an employee gave him a 10% discount and he knew very well that if he paid cash his manager Jim could give him another 20 bucks off the total. The day was unusually quiet and only a few customers managed to distract him from finding planks with the prettiest wood grain.
By Dan Babitsenko3 years ago in Fiction
The Coronet
Dodge Coronet with Minnesota plates was parked right across the lot, on the other side from OId Tampa Bay boardwalk, as if trying to hide in plain sight. An impossible task for a wine red sedan of such truly American proportions. The whole car was covered in a massive layer of dust and the windshield decorated with a dozen parking tickets, that no one will ever pay.
By Dan Babitsenko3 years ago in Futurism