Miguel A. Rivera Jr

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”, It was the stupid, cryptic, dime-store piece of wisdom provided to us right before Beefus sentenced us. My dad, who’d been a billionaire in our time and had paid for the cryo-pods that had kept us in a dormant state for over two hundred years, was the first to go. In 2230, Beefus was the Warlord King who commanded “The Sand Trap”, or what folks in the old American times called “New Mexico”. But that was generations ago, before the visitor

It was the day before The Battle of The Silarus River, 71 BCE. Festus did not relish the thought of approaching the tent of Spartacus, particularly during the planning phase of the coming battle. Festus looked over his shoulder and the Roman Legions had sent their best in great multitude, Led by the ruthless and clever, General Marcus Licinius Crassus. He could almost smell the blood about to be spilled and then he recalled the reason why he and countless thousands had follow