Echoes of the Multiverse

A pang of horror hits him when she turns her face to him, and all he sees are empty sockets, her remains hardly a shadow of what she might have been before this. A twinge of anger mixed with the sorrow of such injustice shown now two of these creations. Not that he could convey any sort of sympathi...

The open air combined with the silence left the unsettling feeling of being exposed. Normally, for them, quiet meant safety, but there was always an ambience that went with silence - the hum of the air conditioner, the static of the radio, the run of the faucet as the dishes were cleaned. Ever didn...

The door had opened at the behest of a fairly tall young man, head still turned in conversation with his pair. He had an angular face and smooth black hair that was long enough to be held back in a short ponytail. His eyes were the color of citrine, and they were sharp when they cut towards the gru...

The road from Shepherd's Glenn didn't branch off anywhere between the town and the next one over on Toluca Lake, at least not enough to suggest they'd gone elsewhere. That was why they didn't take the road, instead squeezing through the trees along deer paths in the brush. It wasn't as much of a st...

It was with shaky, tentative relief that he realized the horrid sound had finally faded into the distance, and its source was no longer in direct pursuit of him. Maybe it would try to find him, but for the time being he could avoid it and try to find a different way out of the complex. He couldn't ...

He couldn't see anything in the dark. He trusted his ears more, head tilting as he listened. A pitch of static and a stuttering mechanical noise warned him that something was there. Then a noise tore at his ears, rending across the room and echoing a painful dissonance. He recoiled, pressing his ha...

https://i.imgur.com/rDmBuSU.png It was unbelievably convenient that the coordinates were actually in range of his navigation unit. Considering the utter size of this planet, he expected it to be further. Maybe the universe was giving him a break. Or maybe his luck was a few portal jumps back, tryin...