Roy Stevens

Joined February 2023

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Runner-Up in Sky's the Limit Challenge

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From the Dark Deep
Leaping into the cobalt blue, the cool Coral Sea surrounds me. I dump the last bit of air from my B.C. and sink to the bright reef below. The friendly reef sharks join me hoping for a handout I won't provide.
By Roy Stevens20 days ago in Fiction
Bahnhof
The toddler climbed off the bench, waddling toward the edge of the station platform just as the Passau bound train rounded the last curve. Occupied with the ticket agent his mother didn't notice.
By Roy Stevens20 days ago in Fiction
No Mow May
Mike Singleton wrote a piece on the subject of "No Mow May' about two weeks earlier than this was published. I wasn't aware of Mike's piece or I certainly would have chosen an at least slightly different name; sorry about that Mike. Here's a link to Mr. Singleton's work, just in case you haven't seen it already: https://vocal.media/earth/no-mow-may
By Roy Stevens21 days ago in Fiction
He Finally Understood
****Warning, This Story Deals with Traumatic Personal Loss**** First, they saw its shining eyes in the headlights. She slowed to a stop and pushed the 'Hazard" button. He got out; walked forward through the rainy mist. It was still alive, a possum badly injured. "We'll call for help, " he told her as she came close and sighed.
By Roy Stevens22 days ago in Fiction
Heroes?
"What if I reject Atticus Finch's definition of a hero, then?" "What... why? A hero is someone who knows he can't win but tries to help against the odds."
By Roy Stevens22 days ago in Fiction
Under New Management
We'd spent four days in the dark under the Arctic ice pack tracking a Chinese ballistic missile sub. That's when the Chief of the Boat came to me ashen faced.
By Roy Stevens22 days ago in Fiction
A Place I'd Like to Be Right Now
I wish it was time and I could be there right now, With salt of the sea and brimstone of guano, Deep in my throat and tasting somehow,
By Roy Stevens26 days ago in Poets
The New Olympians
And lo, through the veiled haze the people finally remembered the old ways of worship. Apollo awoke first before rousing Hera then Zeus. When mighty Zeus saw how humans had defiled his Earth, he angrily swept away the foulness, telling his people to befoul no longer.
By Roy Stevens27 days ago in Fiction
When the World Doesn't Want You
*** Trigger Warning*** Isolated Death and Neglect Discussed “When the world doesn’t want you It will never tell you why.
By Roy Stevens28 days ago in Humans
What Kind of Monsters
“But why a Pizza shop?” “This again? Every time we do the bills you bring this up, honey. It’s just a small shop; it’s more basement than anything!”
By Roy Stevensabout a month ago in Fiction
The Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall
Burnt and torn clothing, a mangled rusted tricycle, a person’s shadow burnt into concrete, a broken watch displaying 8:15. Now the young couple stood before a shattered, domed building propped up on a modern steel skeleton.
By Roy Stevensabout a month ago in Fiction
Suleiman
He finally escaped the crater. For months Suleiman the Black rhino had been climbing the caldera at Ngorongoro to escape to the outside. Suleiman was one of only seven Black rhinoceros, all males, still living there.
By Roy Stevensabout a month ago in Fiction