Roderick Makim
Bio
Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.
I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.
For more: www.roderickmakim.com
Achievements (1)
Stories (45/0)
Modern Life
Once upon a time, there was a boy who kept sheep safe from wolves. A shepherd, if you need to label things. Of course, wolf-protection was the very least part of his job. In fact, no sheep had been killed by a wolf in those parts since the old Mayor had been a boy, and no-one had even seen a wolf in years. Still, that was the way the young shepherd thought of his job.
By Roderick Makim9 months ago in Fiction
- Top Story - June 2023
Advice from the villain
“Love? Love ties us down. Slows us to a crawl. Love satisfies. And when, in all the years of this world, did a satisfied man ever strive for more? Love is a slow-working poison that will kill your dreams, if you let it. Nuture hate instead. Hate will make you work harder than you ever knew possible. Hate will make you strive. Hate will lift you up.”
By Roderick Makim11 months ago in Fiction
One Horse Slain
I can think of no greater humiliation than that which I have endured. Gather ‘round, gather 'round. As the woods fill up with snow in the long, dark evenings of December. As the shopping malls become choked with flashing lights and cheap tinsel and terrible music. As every website you visit starts flashing dubious deals at you, thinking that this time of the year, more than any other, you might be susceptible to advertising.
By Roderick Makimabout a year ago in Fiction
Clean Slate
There were three main problems with time travel, as far as Rebecca was concerned. Or Dr Rebecca Heinen, AO, PhD, DPsych, BBiosc and MAIMS (Research) as was written in the header of her various academic papers. Or Bec, as her ex-husband used to call her (and probably still did, not that Rebecca figured she ever had any reason to find out). Or ‘…a polarising figure’ as The Scientific Method called her, when reviewing her most recent findings in the field of multi-chemical brain-pattern augmentation.
By Roderick Makimabout a year ago in Fiction