Lithium

Lithium, Chptr. 17 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Mel leaned back in the lawn chair, on which he had put pillows he had gotten in trade. Andy was tending their new fire. Among the things he and Hope had done while Mel was working was a stone-lined firepit. Mel was surprised that wasn’t […]

Lithium, Chptr. 15 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. It was, by all accounts, a picturesque day. Partly sunny with a gentle breeze that carried the scent of cinnamon through the camp, strong enough to make the odor of garbage an afterthought. The children outside were cheerful, their voices scattering off tree trunks and […]

Lithium, Chptr 15 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Their camp had an awning and a toilet, however makeshift and prone to collapse it might be. And in exploration news, Mel found a row of community water spigots, where people were also lined up, plastic gallon containers in hand. Mel found out that those […]

Lithium, Chptr. 14 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The pale light of dawn slid through the tall pines and slapped daylight across the minivan, doing what it usually did, waking Mel up. Not that he got much sleep to begin with. The cabin was an echo-chamber of snores, with he, Andy, Max and […]

Lithium, Chptr. 13 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The road swallowed tread and spit it out, gravel spitting out in all directions. The pings of stone against the undercarriage made Mel feel like it was raining up hail and they were encased in tin roofing. Mel and Andy were quiet when they left […]

Lithium, Chptr 12 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Mel woke up to something odd. Not ‘aliens were parked and having a barbecue’ odd; just that something wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. He was dog tired, his adrenaline from yesterday long since gone. So it may have taken him extra time […]

Lithium – Chptr 11 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Plywood, two-by-fours and bags of concrete sat in the lot as Mel and Andy pulled up, It wasn’t at all a surprise, as the square acreage of the farm was eclipsed by the square acreage of the plot of land upon which the farm […]

Lithium, Chptr 10 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. It was a dance if Mel thought about it like that. Lifting the sledgehammer, arcing it through the air and giving gravity just a tiny bit of assistance in bringing it down on the post. He realized that he had much more respect both for […]

Lithium, Chptr. 9 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. They drove by the address once before turning around in a driveway and going back. Mel did it on purpose, to get a look at the place before making an entrance. It was a farm like any other he’d seen during a drive out in […]

Lithium, Chptr 8 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The engine could’ve been a cage trapping a hypnotist who wielded RPMs like the swings of a pocket watch. The sun shone off the windshield, shooting off fine scratches in a starburst. Andy shuffled cards around in between yawns. They were a nearing a hundred […]