Archive for July, 2008
“City of Pillars,” Chapter 4 is Now Live!
July 17th, 2008
Damn. Took me long enough, didn’t it? But you’ll definitely get your money’s worth with this chapter of “City of Pillars,” as it takes you into the North Tower of the World Trade Center after the impact of the first plane, and…well, let’s just say that the impact is the least of the survivors’ worries. Check it out:
There were three men pushing the stairwell door shut but Raj threw himself into the gap shouting, “No, no, not yet—there’s still someone in there!” and the guys started arguing with him, telling him they had to shut the door or they’d all suffocate, and they were pulling him, trying to get pull him back in so they could shut the door but Raj said, “Stop it, goddamnit, I got him! I got him!”
And then Raj just disappeared.
One second he was there, the next…gone.
One of the men at the door went in after him—I guess they thought he’d gone back into the stairwell for Ray. We all heard the man scream, but it was cut off almost instantly. The last two guys on the door were calling him—“Bob! Bob, what happened?!”—and then the…the worms came through the door.
Well, they looked like worms. Like earthworms, but big and purple, big as firehoses. And covered with ash—there was ash all over them, like they’d come out of the fire…and I think I even saw one of them still burning.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Two of them whipped out of the smoke and wrapped around the man closest to the doorway and he didn’t even have time to say anything—he was gone. They’d pulled him into the smoke. “Close the goddamned door! There’s more of them!” somebody shrieked and then I was throwing myself at the door with a bunch of terrified people and the heavy emergency exit door slammed shut. I had my hands on the door and felt something hammering against the other side. Hammering. Hard. The door was jumping beneath our hands and everyone was saying, “Block the door, block the door.”
Oh, it gets a lot worse than that, too.
So take a look, and lemme know what you think!
The Friday Fivehead moves to W♥M
July 12th, 2008
Yeah, yeah—I know. It’s been a while since I posted a Friday Fivehead. Well, since I started writing for W♥M, I haven’t really had the time to gather up a few albums a week to review all in one big chunk.
Well, The Friday Fivehead is coming back on We♥Music this week! I won’t be posting it here anymore, so make sure you’re suscribed to the W♥M RSS feed. This upcoming week, I’ll be reviewing stuff I got from eMusic this week: namely, Otto von I-Am-Fucking-Out-Of-My-Mind von Schirach’s Oozing Bass Spasms, 2562’s Aerial, Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork Special Edition (aka Fancier Footwork), Nebula 3’s Another Way, and Black Devil Disco Club’s Eight Oh Eight.
Be ready to be smacked in the mouth with a fistful of jams!
