Ben Hsu

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Flash Fiction · Nonfiction
Night Dreams

We amble into the place just after 2:16 in the morning, like we always did, like we always had.  The florescent lights beam down on us, and a freshly mopped floor waits for us to trample dirt into the pale white linoleum.  Past the linoleum a puce carpet holds a crowded cluster of faux wooden…

Fiction · Flash Fiction · LGBT
Get In Your Box!

"I'm an attack helicopter!" he proclaimed. "I'm a man-cheetah!" his friend declared. "What are you two talking about?" they asked. "You said you're gender fluid," said the attack helicopter, "everyone knows there's only two biological genders." "Yeah!" agreed the man-cheetah, "So if you don't have to be male or female, then I can be a…

Essay · Fiction · Modern Fantasy
Quandry

One morning I woke up and needed eggs, not wanted eggs, or even had to have eggs, needed them.  It was as if eating eggs had suddenly become an integral part of my life; I needed to breath, drink water, sleep, and eat eggs.  I’d call it an addiction, but I’ve never been addicted to…

Fantasy · Fiction · Short Story
The Darkness and The Light

I finally found her nailed to an oak.  It always amazes me what lengths humans will go through to torture one another.  Her blood and tears mixed together as they ran down her bare body, forming and reforming little rivulets, inlets and streams.  Near where the cold iron spikes drove themselves through her ankles and…

Fantasy · Licensed Heroes · Script
Licensed Heroes Scripts 17-20

Comic 17: Panel 1: Tempest is sitting at the order counter for the bakery.  Put an obvious clock/sundial/timer in the corner of the panel so the audience can clearly see the passage of time.  He's trying to be a good son, but clearly very bored.  Tempest's Father(Off panel): Tempest!  I'm heading out to make some…

Fantasy · Licensed Heroes · Script
Licensed Heroes Script 13-16

Comic 13: Panel 1: Tempest at his Landlord's office bargaining for an extra month's rent.  The office is seedy and grimy, the whole thing looks borderline to a slum lord's office.  The Landlord himself is large and dirty, and mostly unsympathetic as Tempest makes his pleas.  Tempest (Trying to convince the Landlord, knowing he sounds…