Tales of R. L. Culkin: Short Stories of R. L. Culkin

By R.L. Culkin

This is a book of short stories that are mostly based on sci-fi, but it also contains a mix of different views on space, death, and love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524557911

R.L. Culkin

I feel that the readers who will be interested in my book will be people who want to get right to the point of the story and still get the surprise they want.

Book preview

TALES

OF R.L. CULKIN

Copyright © 2017 by R.L. Culkin.

ISBN:      eBook      978-1-5245-5791-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

Rev. date: 11/04/2016

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

749812

Contents

Tales From R.L.Culkin

The Light of Gia Panta`

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

The Book Of Cloud Walker

The Book Of Jake the Dragon Slayer

The Book Of Sammie

The Path Of the General

Chapter 9

Suspended Animation

Warcom 2280

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Wild West 5280

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Othello 2.0

The Origins Of Man

Tales From R.L.Culkin

Volume 1

The Light of Gia Panta`

In the afterlife there is a world that reaches to the end of the universe. In this world there is every creature being sentient computer, cyborg, demon, and things with life that you have never even imagined. The forces of light have vast civilization the lie in every corner on the of the universe but in between the patches of light there is dark and there is far more dark then light. In the dark there are foe with power unimaginable to that of the common spirit. In the world of dead the world that they call Gia Panta. In this world a person get infinite lives like a cheat code in a video game. The only catch is that your spirit starts form you dwelling or you house witch is in fact like a spiritual spawning point. There are no save points along the way and you have to re-travel that distance to get to where you died. You also have levels like in a video game witch is mostly time based. It is also base on what you did in life so if you had a craft you did all of you life you start out at a high level then someone who did the same job for less time. You can learn new skills in Gia Panta but you will always have the skills you learned in life and you can grow the skills you had in life to potentials unimaginable.

There has been a war in Gia Panta since the light came to be. In this war there are two kinds of solders good and bad unless you count the free souls, people that were granted the ability to travel between the realms of dark and light. For you see that soul from the light can go into the dark whenever they chose. Souls the dwell in the dark are vanquished to the dark for all time unless they can distinguish the light and Bring Gia Panta to the rules of before time when dark was all there was. The force that are free travel back and forth have to follow the laws of both the light and the dark thus living some of the free souls to be barred from the light parts of Gia Panta. In this group of soul there is a small group of warriors that have banned together for protection from the things of the dark. They are usually found in camp on the out skirts of the light but the Angel guard usually pushes them out to just beyond where the reaches of the light show.

The war has taken its toll on the light and the are running low on solder. Eldon the king of the light and the knower of all feels that he has no choice but to call in the leader of the free souls a one general Skull. An x military special force general that became a free soul based on a which granted to him by the celestial council. Him and his solders have lived in the dark for millenniums and have face almost everything the dark has to offer. The have also enchanted weapons that kill creatures of the dark faster that any weapon that the light has. To spread infinite light threw the dark the will need the help of General Skull.

A rider on a white unicorn sits atop with a magenta hooded cloak and armor that shines in the light. In the shadow of the cloak you can see a slight out line of a face and two white glowing eye peering threw the darkness. Soon all you see is the riders two eyes. The rider ventures further into the darkness. He comes across a fire in the distance. The rider approaches the fire with caution. He dismount his unicorn and creep closer to the camp. Soon he is in a hiding place that he can see from. He peers out to the fire and notices that he has walked into a camp of Borlocks pig headed men creatures who feast on the souls of the light.

The rider carefully yet hastily goes back to his unicorn to flee but just as he gets there he is seen by a youngling. The youngling sounds the alarm. fresh meat! Me like Fresh meat! Get them me hungry. Yelled the youngling.

Soon there was three adult Borlocks on steeds of Cerberus hell hounds come riding after the rider with the white glowing eyes. So the rider with the white glowing eyes looks back to see only one Borlock behind him. Then he senses that he is in trouble