Frizzdisc & Hexbolt
Designation: the DISCUS & HEXAGONAL STORM cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & OUTER SPACE
Size: SMALL & LARGE
Interesting Facts: Constructed from ambient electrical energy, Frizzdisc spins and buzzes at high speed through the air. As an adult it becomes much more contemplative, stewing in charged water vapor. When something offends its sense of geometric order, that things gets zapped. No exceptions.
Lug & Fulgrum
Designation: the LIGHTNING SLUG & FULGURITE SNAIL cillimorphs
Group: SPINELESS
Native Biomes: OUTER SPACE & PLANET BOLDERO
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Lug is the fastest sluggish thing to ever exist, streaking everywhere with intense electrical energy. When it strikes the ground of Boldero it fuses soil into a charged shell of glass and matures into Fulgrum.
Don’t Strike the Platform
by
Blaine Arcade
Cupcakes awaited in the break room; the scent was clear as he’d passed by. His coworkers figured he couldn’t smell through the hood, but it was much thinner than people thought. Black as night, yet clear as a bell. All his senses were needed to get his swing right.
And by the reaper he had gotten it right, every time, every year, up to today. His final swing: the 733rd. One strike. If it took two his record was ruined. Retirement would sour. Cupcakes would taste like ash.
The swinger made his way up the five steps to his black platform, sealed slats ready for runoff. Closed audience. Two television cameras. Everyone around the country knew him, but none knew his face, just the expert swing. The block was locked in with the basket. Clean, but not slippery. Good job Phil. Phil was on rags and mops. Good guy, No perfect record though.
Up came the squirmer with his handlers. They marched him up, bent him, and locked him on the block. Squirming couldn’t do any good now, but most kept going like live bait. Continue reading
Blaine Arcade 