Tag: fiction

• Bookreviews: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

  By Max Brooks: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [Audiobook] by -Random House Audio- My rating: 3 of 5 stars (contains a section that can be seen as a spoiler: it is at the end and marked as such) I decided to listen to the audiobook version of this book for…

  Merit Coba

  30/04/2014

  book, review

  Audiobook, end of world, fiction, history, Max Brrooks, merit coba, oral history, undead, World War Z, zombies

• Signs of life 4: Fuzz

  “No!”  Meena, the eldest of the two daughters said with an indignant expression on her face  when her parents proposed to go to the market fair. Eve, the youngest, fell into an uncomfortable silence squeezing a plushie against her chest. She did not dare to go against her older sisters opinion, yet she feared her…

  Merit Coba

  27/06/2013

  flash fiction, Signs of life, stories, Uncategorized

  cat, children, dad, family, family stories, father, fiction, flash, mom, mother, parents, short, short story, signs of life, story

• Signs of Life 3: Breach

  Day 7: 13:15 Too many, John Atkins, systems engineer for Pacific Shipping Incorporated thought while he browsed his logs. He was at first intrigued by the large amount of failed logins on one of his monitoring servers. It wasn’t easy to pinpoint the source of the alerts as the logs contained a lot of information,…

  Merit Coba

  24/06/2013

  Signs of life, stories

  fiction, hacker, hacking, short, signs of life, story, tale

• Signs of life 1

  With a long penetrating shriek the double decker train came to an abrupt halt inside the station.  The double doors unlocked with an audible low bang, hesitated for a moment, but then proceeded with opening very slowly. A boy, in his late teens, ran up the stairs that led from the lower part of the…

  Merit Coba

  13/06/2013

  Signs of life, stories

  fiction, real life, short, Short Stories, signs of life, stories, story

• Perfect Isolation

  None of the employees gathered in the conference room had ever seen Lars Sunden in the flesh.  And even in this presentation, displayed on a huge screen, the head of the informational technology department remained a vague figure wearing a white shirt and a tie.  He was only visible in the corner of the huge…

  Merit Coba

  06/06/2013

  stories

  business, employees, fiction, higher management, isolation, kpi, management, performance, short story, story, work

• Masque (voiced)

  Masque is a movie about an exhibition inspired by the story Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. I took the liberty to change some things as I also wanted to give a modern day angle to the story. This is another version of Masque. It was made after Missie said she missed…

  Merit Coba

  11/05/2013

  Uncategorized

  edgar allan poe, fiction, horror, masque, merit coba, red death, story

• Liberation day

  The wall shattered into bricks when it finally toppled over. It caused a cloud of dust to rise up.  Katerine and the other women applauded as they had done for every wall that had fallen. They then entered the cloud,  picked up the bricks and put them in carts. Katerine’s  fingers hurt  because they were…

  Merit Coba

  05/05/2013

  Uncategorized

  conquest, defeat, end of war, fiction, lesbian, liberation day, love, short story