Jeff Mach Writes

May 20, 2020 / caffeine

of course caffeine is fatal

Once, in an undreaming vision through a fuzzy weave of drug-fumes, I glimpsed a past…

May 19, 2020 / fantasy

Sure, he lacks the taste of sin, But you should eat the Paladin. His sacred…

May 18, 2020 / alternative history

Hello! I’d like to take a moment to address Fermi’s Paradox (the idea that sentient…

May 17, 2020 / Bards

The little ditty below is not meant to cast aspersions upon the noble and ancient…

May 16, 2020 / Apocalypse

Let us, for a moment, put aside the question of whether or not a particular…

May 15, 2020 / dark lord

It wasn’t fair for the Chosen Ones. Why would anyone expect it to be? If…

May 14, 2020 / alternative history

I used to stay up all night playing ‘Resident Evil 2,’ and it wouldn’t stop…

May 13, 2020 / fantasy

Once, there was an apprentice magician who was very curious. This is often a good…

May 12, 2020 / I assert reality

Sixteen spiders of burnished gold; sixteen spiders, live and real. Two hundred fifty-six scurry-legs, thirty-two…

May 11, 2020 / dark lord

(This is a wholly standalone piece from my upcoming book, “I Despise Your Prophecy“. If…