The Mars Jacket by Jacob Malewitz Final Draft You can call it what you want—just don’t call it a psych ward. In this ward was a girl whom I hated more than anything. She sat like the devil on her throne. Hell had a place for her, though I was sure she thought she fought on the side of good. This is my story of finding peace in the land of the insane. She will play a part. Evil always does. She will go unnamed, though I can give some details on the devil of my world. She chain-smoked cigarettes, even bummed a few from me before I ran out of money for the bad habit. I knew from watching her that she worked twice as hard as I did on everything. She would never quit. I hated that in other people; I hated her more than anyone else because of it. I liked watching TV, and found a show about the Solar System and religiously watched it with dreams of making it to the colonized planets. The Jupiter magnet stations had revolutionized space travel. Anything to do with science c
Red Athens Chapter 1 by Jacob Malewitz Change is the absolute, for things change often, and do you see them changing, the emprires falling and the warriors standing off? Heroes do what we cannot, one standing against many. The hero of Red Athens breaths in a land set by four empires. Blue Babylon : over the seas a landed people of remarkable intellect, built in a city built over a hell opened by one mage. Green Sparta : a warlike city bent on turning the world with magiks; Spartans walk on water if King Leonidas demands it. Red Athens : a light in the harrowed and known lands of the world, where philosophy rules, but a blade is always kept to each free citizen’s arm, lest a Spartan sneak up. And Sky Rome : a bloody place not long ago, a people who see themselves to be just as civilized as the Red Athenians. A scroll from a secretive poet is built from the documents of wordsmiths, tells of the travels of a young Pericles Knyght, a battle mage of Red Athens, who champion