David Binelli

                                                                   Paralyzed   By   David Binelli   David Binelli © All Rights Reserved. 2022     Is it over already? That’s weird, mind you, it is the first time I’ve had to have an operation. The surgeon said it wouldn’t take long. They use keyhole surgery to do knee ops now. There was a time when I’d have a huge scar across my knee to have a cartilage operation done. How times have changed. I know I’ve been under anaesthetic but I imagined I would be able to open my eyes and see something by now. Hang on. My eyes are open. All I can see is a blank whiteness. Why does the whiteness move with my every breath? It’s a sheet or something over my face. I can smell something. It’s aftershave. Why can I smell aftershave? ‘Steve. Are you ...

                                     Odyssey Bender   By   David Binelli   David Binelli © All Rights Reserved. 2022   I’ve experienced the most incredible things that you can ever imagine. I’ve traveled across the universe to galaxies that humans don’t even know exist. I’ve surfed the rings of Alpha Dinus in a ship of glowing Delisium with creatures that will suck the soul from your consciousness as soon as drink your blood. I’ve flown through Sintius B, a red dwarf star, with nothing more than a Star Rider ship and an environmental suit made from the skin of a Shartoz Braverox. I’ve been through a black hole into dimensions that shouldn’t exist while having every atom in my body torn apart and reassembled leaving the very essence of my lifeforce itself outside my fragile carcass of a carbon-based lifeform. I’ve had my thoughts dragged kicking and screa...