Thelmer in “The Land Without Love” First draft sketch Geoff Marshall 2025 This is a story that could have happened to anybody, in a world so far away you can only visit it in your imagination. This world’s name was Fud, and though they were not the only creatures on their planet, the Northern Fudlians liked to think of themselves as the sum total of everything the planet had to offer. With that attitude they came to dominate all their neighbors around them through a system of taking all that was good and free and turning it into a big…

PAW SECOND DRAFT Copyright 2025 Geoff Marshall The light appeared in the night sky of October, 2100. The Martian Fascist Congress were the first to spot it and initial analysis was so surprising they decided to send a probe.  The planetoid was in a horseshoe orbit with the Earth, which meant it was only visible for a few decades every three hundred years, and even then only with a strong lens, if you knew what you were looking for and where to look. Scientists in Napoleon’s time couldn’t be blamed for missing it. ~ Martian Supreme  Chancelor Coke had been…

Set in the heyday of raving in the 1990’s, Dreams is a playful homage to Winsor McKay’s “Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend”, replacing bedtime cheese snacks with bizarre “smart” drinks laced with jolly ranchers.