Chapter 4: Family Matters
Zakana woke up in a sweat, knowing that his shoulder and back needed immediate attention. They felt broken and shattered beyond recognition. He couldn’t move. An intense heat burned him all over. There were way too many clothes dressing him, way too many blankets covering him for the current temperature in the room. Where was […]
Chapter 3: Fight or Flight
Zakana lifted himself off the ground and rubbed his back. He tried to breath, but the pain was excruciating. There was no time to wonder if there would be permanent damage. He grimaced, looked out at the two vast creatures. Snow slurries swirled around them in dusty whirlpools, creating some sort of magical effect. “Slowpoke!” […]
Chapter 2: Surprise Visitors
The Pokeball landed square in the pink thing’s face. The ball opened, revealed an amorphous red light, and sucked the Pokemon inside whip-like. Zakana had seen it too many times to count, on TV, when his mother did it, in his dreams. Somehow, throwing a Pokeball and watching it in real time felt different. There […]
Chapter 1: Pokeball, Go!
Zakana was sitting in a familiar place when the first wave of bad news came. On the cliffs near the back of his house, he scanned the deep-blue ocean that stretched across a fire lit horizon. A sprightly mist floated before him as he watched the dumb, pink creatures below. They moved so slowly, so […]