Tin Universe Monthly #23, A FIRST SHOT FIRED: Part Five
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FOX: I'm sorry. I don't mean to be such a selfish brat. What happened?
JEFF: didn't say you were being a brat. I just think you don't give yourself enough credit for what you have accomplished and enough room to make mistakes and issues about what you want to do. I love you and I am very proud of you. With me, it was just bullshit about stuff from earlier
FOX: Fuck them. You do everything for them.. You should come home now. And have hot sex with me. Yea.
JEFF: Yea. But then I would screw over the people working tonight. I just hope I don't get pulled over on the way home. I just want to make it until this weekend where I will have money to do stuff to my truck to get it working. It wrecks my nerves so bad driving back and forth now. Wasn't bad enough before getting pulled over.
JEFF: Oh, and I love you COUCH!
#97
Karen, "my search for my chapstick, the eternal struggle"
#98
“Her eyes spitted fire,” a scared bystander
“I knew a woman like that once. She always reminded me of a tank driver when I first met her. Then she met a redheaded friend of mine and she became like jelly,” Record
#99
“Are you a ghost?” an old witch
“Technically? I don’t think so? I can’t walk through walls. I’ve tried,” Record
#100
“Do you drink Record Pain?” demon bartender
“Sometimes in gallon quantities or a pint. Either is just fine with me as long as it’s Guinness,” Record
#101
“Are you a breeder Mr. Pain?” a alien doctor
“I think I’ve almost forgotten how…You know the evolved part of the operation,” Record
“We can skip that,” the alien doctor
“My good fellow I think that’s wrong to even say,” Record
#102
“Is this the road to Hell?” young girl.
“No, but a pace back was a sign that read-‘This Way To Palm Bay,’” Record.
#103
“I’m sort of fickled when it comes to who stabs me in the back. Friends can get away with it, you won’t,” Record.
#104
“You are worthy of remembrance my ally,” an agent of Destiny
“Too bad I’ve forgotten so much then,” Record.
#105
“Have you seen death?” soldier
“Once. She told me to bugger off,” Record
#106
“What happens when Gods forget?” Ares
“People remember to stand,” Record.
#107
“You can die from a heart fall and live on,” Record.
#108
“Nothing moves the lands on high like love,” a nun
“Nothing crumbles like a broken heart either sister,” Record
#109
“Your mind shows great love,” It’s
“I lost what I gave my heart to,” Record
“And now you walk?” It’s
“I wonder,” Record
#110
“You have no idea how small humanity is to existence,” alien
“And you have no idea how large the human spirit is,” Record during an alien invasion
#111
“I am ready to make a war that will rip apart creation like the waste it is,” Lucifer
“I see ego has not leveled with time,” Elsee, prince of Fairies
“I see I should just sit and be stupidly human… well, as human as I can be,” Record
#112
“I’m not a man of valor, glory, or fear. I find myself faced with things in my life just like everyone else. Then I choose where I stand. Maybe others just stay on their knees. I once lived on mine,” Record, when asked how he lives his life during a bloody ancient war.
#113
‘What’s happening with the world?’ Women in crowd freaking out near Record as a man literally melts right in front of her and then reforms into the shape of a woman.
‘What do you expect with all the pollution humans put into her system? Eat green…. Or what the fuck ever,’ Record
#114
‘You’re really happy in your stubborn silence, aren’t you?’ Mad scientist guy
‘Being silent here…. Shush!’ Record
#115
‘I’ve been “not of sound mind” more than once I’m afraid,’ Record
#116
JOURNAL ENTRY:
I decided to walk up into the woods where I live. On the way up into the woods I passed the last houses before I entered the woods. I stopped to tie my shoe and I began to think that I was leaving civilization and I was entering Mother Nature’s turf.
As I walked up an old dirt road and saw that they were weeds growing in the dirt road and there were branches all over the road it hits me.
Not many people ever used this road except me and I haven’t been on it since I was about ten years old.
The deeper I walked into the woods the more alone I felt. I could hear squirrels and see some birds but I was alone. I couldn’t just yell through the house for my parents or call a friend on the phone.
If my parents cared anymore.
As if I had friends.
As I walked I saw no signs of civilization until I stepped on a Coke can. My heart rate slowed, even though I hadn’t even noticed it was racing. Seeing this can, this modern convention had reminded me that I’m a modern cowboy of TV, trucks, and food at my feet.
But for the little while that I walked through the woods I was in another time.
For that little while I wasn’t a freak scared they were going to come take me away at any moment when someone makes the call and reports me.
#117
JOURNAL ENTRY:
Here I sit trying to think about a short topic to write about. Well, I could write about how many days my teachers miss but that wouldn’t be very nice but then again I ant very nice.
Or I could write about how strange the first time I changed was.
The first time my own mother called me a monster.
#118
JOURNAL ENTRY:
Tonight I sit looking at a painting of Tom Baker on my room wall hanging over my desk and for some reason I’m writing my thoughts down in my English journal. In part this is because I need all the points my journal will give me toward my final grade and in part because…I don’t know…chaos! I can’t remember where I got it and that’s unusual for me. Tom Baker is an actor and a great one if you ask me who was on my favorite TV show Doctor Who. Wonder if even The Doctor would have a companion that did the strange things I do.
#119
JOURNAL ENTRY:
I’m so bored that I’m actually doing something I’m supposed to, writing something in my journal. I’m writing about my plans to put out a monthly comic book starting in June. Now all I have to do is find an artist to work with. Best of luck with that considering most of the families in this town tell their kids not to even talk to me.
#120
JOURNAL ENTRY:
I’m sitting in my truck in the student parking lot. I have five minutes before I have to go to work so I decided to write something in my journal……..Let’s see two minutes has passed. I think I’ll tell you about my truck. It’s a small size 1985 Ford Ranger with a lot of miles and a few dents, kind of like me. But also like me it might start out slow but once it gets going its…..I’m the best.
But unlike me it doesn’t change.
It’s not feared by its family either.
BREAKING NEWS: Greeks strike over media closure to shut down coverage of countries economy…
BREAKING NEWS: Someone, somehow broke into NSA offices and painted WHAT PRICE FREEDOM over all the walls…
Notes From The Author
What I learned While Writing This: Lesson learned while writing this: That even if something doesn’t work out the way you like, doesn’t mean you can’t rip it to bloody shreds to find something you love about it.
An
d sort of along those lines of thinking…
The comic book script for Paranormal Harms Way was a project that fell away by no ones fault except that life happens; which was meant to be a comic book series set within the Tin Universe. The page count and formatting of the script was on request by the artist who was to work on the project with me. He wanted minimal description and only bits of dialogue. The project ended before I could even deliver this fist script. It didn’t pan out because of issues but I like the characters. They will turn up in future Tin Universe stories. I promise. In time. I hope I live a long time because I gots lots of plans.
Thanks for reading,
Brian C. Williams
https://twitter.com/hangofwednesday
https://underthetrainingbook.blogspot.com/
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Tin Universe Monthly #21 A First Shot Fire, Part Three
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Tin Universe Monthly #1
Tin Universe Middle Grade Series #1
Tin Universe Monthly #2
Tin Universe Middle Grade Series #2
Tin Universe Monthly #3
Tin Universe Middle Grade Series #3
Tin Universe Monthly #4
Tin Universe Monthly #5
Tin Universe Monthly #6
Tin Universe Monthly #7
Tin Universe Monthly #8
Tin Universe Monthly #9
Tin Universe Monthly #10
Tin Universe Monthly #11
Tin Universe Monthly #12
Tin Universe Monthly #13
Tin Universe Monthly #14
Tin Universe Monthly #14b 2014 April Fool’s Special
Tin Universe Monthly #14c 2014 Easter Special
Tin Universe Monthly #15
Tin Universe Monthly #15b Extra Stuff In April Special
Tin Universe Monthly #16
Tin Universe Monthly #16b Memorial Day Special
Tin Universe Monthly #17
Tin Universe Monthly #18
Tin Universe Monthly #19
Tin Universe Monthly #20 A First Shot Fire, Part Two
Tin Universe Monthly #21 A First Shot Fire, Part Three
Tin Universe Monthly #22 A First Shot Fire, Part Four
Tin Universe Monthly #23 A First Shot Fire, Part Five