Michael Mayr
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Asteroid of Horror
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But that’s not true, I am proof of that. I have heard the screams in space. Oh I know physics says that it's impossible, I know god-damn science. But I’ve heard the screams, maybe not with my ears, but I’ve heard them in my mind, in my heart, in my very soul! In fact, everytime I close my eyes I hear them still…the screams. I dream of screams…
By Michael Mayr7 months ago in Fiction
Horrible Events on a Bullet Train
He awoke in pain. He opened his eyes and reached up to the left side of his face, and it was swollen and hurt like hell to the touch, something had clocked him good. Where the hell was he? He was stretched across three seats. Was he on a plane? He sat up abruptly and his head swam. He closed his eyes for a moment until he felt better. He looked around and he was alone, the landscape passed by in the windows at an incredible speed. Not a plane then, but a train? He looked around and saw blood splattered across the walls - arterial spray, someone did not survive this - and the seats, and the floor. He stood up and saw a snack cart turned over in the aisle.
By Michael Mayr8 months ago in Fiction
The Debt of the Summoner
Most people remember Doctor Gordon Chen as a Chinese expatriate, a well respected expert on geo-politics, an author, but mostly as a bitter critic of the communist regime in Beijing. However, I remember him as my mentor, my friend, and a master occultist. Almost no one remembers his mysterious disappearance, but as it took place the day the whole world changed that is to be expected...
By Michael Mayr9 months ago in Fiction
Mariziguant and the Assault on the Tower of the Blessed Lady
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. In fact, as near as Mariziguant could tell there had never been any before, despite the valley's name, the Vale of the Silver Wyrm, there were no legends or myths of dragons had ever dwelt there. Mariziguant had consulted with spirits and dark forces and had confirmed this simple fact. That his foes, the damnable Silver Sisterhood, had somehow summoned the pair of mighty silver-scaled drakes from somewhere, or possibly somewhen else was a certainty. These damned dragons had turned the tide, and Mariziguant ground his needle sharp teeth in frustration as he recalled the dragonfire consuming his hordes of walking dead and his legion of ghoul warriors as they besieged the sisterhood in their temple, the so-called Tower of the Blessed Lady.
By Michael Mayr10 months ago in Fiction
Rufus
Today. Somewhere in Appalachia. Memories of an Old Woman: "No matter what the other folks say, I want you to know that Rufus was never a bad boy. Never. In fact he was the kindest, most gentle soul I have ever known. And I have known many. You see, during the troubles, that thing wasn't really Rufus. Oh maybe at the end, the very end when he had come back. But he was back for just a second. Because when the Big Man scared the thing out of him, when he sent it back to the void where it came from. Well, Rufus came back to us to say goodbye, right before he died."
By Michael Mayr11 months ago in Fiction
Prelude - Part IV
Prelude - Part IV: Skarrigg and Annaquette rode upon the black horse. They headed north into the cold lands. It had been a rough three months, the journey to Irrisen, commonly called the land of eternal winter. Irrisen was exactly that, a land in the grip of a magical winter over the last 1,400 years and ruled by a dynasty of albino witches. Their destination was the far north-western part of the ice-shrouded nation where it bordered the fabled land of the Linnorm Kings.
By Michael Mayrabout a year ago in Fiction
Prelude - Part II
Skarrigg rode and brooded – which he often did. He brooded and…he remembered…he remembered the time after he avenged his sister. He stalked through the caves killing any of his former tribesfolk that he came across…most of the male ogres were already dead, killed by the unnamed group of invaders, but Skarrigg cut down any female ogre he came across. After all, he had suffered more from their cruelties than almost any male.
By Michael Mayrabout a year ago in Fiction
Prelude - Part III
The undersea grotto was warm and humid. Skarrigg still felt the pressure of being this far underwater and it gave him a low grade, yet still very unpleasant, headache. He stood there surrounded by a dozen piscine-like humanoids, they had stood at least a half foot taller than the average human male, but were far heavier, with thick muscular frames, That were covered in blue-green scales. They had come at him with claws outstretched and jagged fangs bared. However, they had come at him as a mob, a fatal mistake on their part, as he had torn through them like a hot knife through butter.
By Michael Mayrabout a year ago in Fiction
The Regrets of a Fallen Warrior
The Regrets of the Fallen Warrior There was a warrior, but not just any warrior. Not a sellsword, or a mercenary or a mere soldier, no, this warrior was a champion of the Light, a paragon of Order. A hero. This warrior came home one day to find that everything that mattered to him was gone. Everyone that he ever loved, taken from him - his children? Murdered. His parents? Murdered. His wife? His wife…she was found in such a state, that murder…mere murder would have been a mercy.
By Michael Mayrabout a year ago in Fiction
Prelude - Act I
The house and barn were ablaze, she could hear the animals, screaming as they died. She could see her father dead on the ground. His skull was crushed by their leader’s hammer. However none of the field hands were to be seen, they had either fled or more likely been butchered. Her sisters were crouched behind her as she brandished a pitch fork in a vain attempt at defense. Hard, dirty and ugly men surrounded them. Surrounded them and leered. Though the worst by far was their leader – her father’s murderer – a large man in dark armor, which looked smokey gray in the shadows from the fire, wielding a massive hammer, larger than any sledge or maul she had ever seen, her father’s brains and blood still shown wetly on it in the fire light. However, the worst part about him was his face even in the light from the burning buildings she could see the skull paint and filed teeth. His eyes glittered like stars in his black sockets.
By Michael Mayrabout a year ago in Fiction
Coma Dreams
It is blackest night and I am in dark water. But this water, it is not water, it is something else - a viscid, clinging liquid. It is one moment cold, the next warm. I start to sink but there is an island next to me and I grip it’s shore. Island is a generous term, more of a sandbar really. But I am thankful for it nonetheless.
By Michael Mayrabout a year ago in Fiction
