by shukyou (主教) illustrated by calintz (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/66670.html) Treat it like it’s a movie. Opening scene, some rich kid’s house, parents gone for the weekend, low light, booze and joints, inmates running the asylum. Credits in some trendy font roll while guitars rock out some overplayed pop hit. Zoom in on the kids, who have […]
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16
Oct
Mike Dies At The End
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by sairobi (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/61440.html) Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead. Let’s say a hipster is chatting you up […]
6
Aug
The Passion of Saints Tryphaena and Tryphosa
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by tongari (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/49071.html) Translator’s Notes The author of The Passion of Saints Tryphaena and Tryphosa (part of a larger codex recently unearthed by Dr. Wm. Ford) identifies as ‘Persis,’ the third name listed with Tryphaena and Tryphosa in Romans 16:12. All three women are identified as leaders of the Roman […]
6
Aug
The Only Living Boy In New York
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by amei (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/51860.html) Day #527, 6:20 AM – Wake up, dose #1 Evidencing once more an uncanny ability to beat the alarm clock, Jonah opened his eyes at 6:19 on the dot, reached over, and clicked off the alarm before the morning talk shows could filter their way into the […]
5
May
And That’s the News
by shukyou (主教) and Tsukizubon Saruko (月図凡然る子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/47011.html) [The following is a work half of satire, half of imagination, and entirely of fiction. Any resemblance to actual proper nouns is entirely intentional, though imaginative liberties have been taken with the principal characters to the point of near-unrecognisability. The easily offended, die-hard political junkies of […]
15
Feb
Yellow Fever
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/40199.html) The glass in his hand held a pale imitation of the drug that burned through his system — vodka, straight, the way his father had taught him to drink it, a cold fire in his belly that still couldn’t hold a candle to the flame in his veins. Neither the […]
21
Dec
Pyrophoric
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by amei (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/33309.html) That Saturday night, Kip lay naked on the bed in the room two flights beneath the stage, eyes shut, recalling the week prior that had changed his life. He felt her juices still slick on his loins, his seed drying in his nether regions, and wondered not […]
28
Sep
The Soul of Jonathan
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/28246.html) Stephen stepped forward into the chapel, his bare feet cold against the stone floor, his bare head chilled in the Easter pre-morning. Sunrise would come soon, and with it all the Paschal celebrations – but now it was yet night, the proverbial darkness before the coming dawn, and Stephen stepped […]
8
Aug
Knight
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by luckykitty (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/21575.html) (Lavender’s Blue) To call his feelings for the princess love at first sight would have been to underestimate them by a considerable magnitude. He knew he should be still and keep his eyes focused on the coffin, that the other eyes in the stone-cold church that were […]
