Burr The Dagger: The Shades Of Justice – Part #3
Dune jerked her head after she pulled her naked body as far back as it could go. She was covered in profuse sweat and breathed as if every exhale was her last. Her legs straddled the waist of Burr, as he laid naked on the bed. His arms raised, hands and fingers open as if [...]
When Zombies Rise Again, How Will That Affect Social Security?
With the increase of vampires, werewolves, and zombies in popular culture, it is only logical to expect real people to follow suit. And pursue their own desires to become more like their fictional heroes. So I decided to contact the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C., to see what the explanation it could give in [...]
Guinea Pig
The first time I did it it was for the money. I was 21, in college at The University of Chicago and I saw an ad in the Chicago Maroon asking for volunteer test subjects for a new anti-anxiety drug. I was definitely anxious, what students aren’t when the economy was the way it was. [...]
Man in the Water…
“Below is my meager retelling of how we came upon him, how he earned our trust and fed our lust for gold. And, regretfully, why I now fear that our greed will bring about our damnation.” 16 of April, 1566 A.D. The sun that beat down on us that morning was unnaturally hot, the salt [...]
Slipping – Part 1
It was my first semester at college. I was going to Westminster, a smaller university in the pine encrusted foothills of southeastern Washington state. It was cool and rainy most of the time, as such most of the students there wore their hooded sweatshirts. I preferred to wear my long leather jacket I got as [...]
Rehab Nation Pt 1
The morning sun is well in the bright blue sky as I reach the rooftop of the building that used to be a warehouse or an assembly plant or whatever. The four-story yellow brick building with all the windows broken out is now just the headquarters of my crew, The Blind Pigs. Alcoholics all. It’s [...]
Alien Hunt: VOTE For Who I Blast First!
I have no name and I have no face, at least no face that you would understand. Of course, I wear a human face, attractive to seduce human women…but I am not human. I am here to help save you. But first, I need your help to locate them…to track them down and to kill [...]
Becoming Borg, Beautifully: Part 1
I wake up, check my Blackberry, respond to an email and put it back onto the pillow. Return to sleep. It’s 5:23AM. 8:30AM, the boss calls to inquire if I were already awake when I responded to the email. No, I wasn’t. Knocked out as a matter of fact. Yes, I am completely aware [...]
Prosthetics PT.2
Judy said that I was special. That my arms had been separated from their sockets in such a way that left a high percentage of nerve endings alive and functioning and that that would help with my ‘extensions’. She assured me that prosthetics had come a long way and that these were ‘experimental’ limbs. That [...]
Prosthetics PT.1
The punches didn’t hurt that much, at least not after the first one. And the kicks to the back and ribs, for some reason, only hurt the next day. The pain I felt came from the spitting. Why did they have to spit on me? I blame myself. I am skinny and I wear glasses [...]
Fast Food
It was easier than we thought. To get to you. Most of you were easy to find, easy to seduce and even easier to get to come back for more. There would be no need for us to come to you…you would come to us. One greasy bite at a time. The cow, from our [...]
Help Wanted: Experienced Time Travelers
Established Time Travel Agency is expanding! We need Junior travel executives for our growing tourist trade and Senior executives for our new Business Class Division. Must be friendly, physically fit, customer-focused, and have a proven track record. –Successful excursions to both past and future preferred but we will train enthusiastic beginners. Time Travel Agents/Past: Our [...]
The Uncanny Valley: Part 1
It’s a good thing that humans aren’t logical because if they were, they would not even attempt half the shit they do. Emotion is the culprit—it’s the magnet that pulls them past fear and into the heroic, the passionate, the sublime. They don’t know if a foolish act will result in a great adventure they [...]
The Last Sperm Donor
When I found out that I was the last fertile man on earth it was a huge ego boost. Really, I was the guy that got voted ‘most likely to marry his right hand’ back in high school. And then, after college, I met this lady, Gwen…and Gwen didn’t care that I was short, Gwen [...]
The Silver Dagger – Part Two
I can count the number of times I’ve been out of the village on one hand. Once to visit my grandmother, back when we still had gas for cars. Once with my father, when he taught me how to hunt. Once to look for my brother, after he disappeared. I always packed light, because I [...]
Rose’s Personal Ad
Female Data Processing Unit Searching For a Programably Like Minded Individual Date of Birth: Manufactured 03/21/2232, Activate 03/31/2232 Age: Designed appearance for 20 years of age Sex: Synthetic Female Automation Sexual Preference: Straight Seeking: Males or Synthetic Male Units for online fun, realtime dating, and a relationship. Location: Lake Lucern, NY Country: United States of [...]
Antivirus – Conclusion
Through the doorway that led to Jesse’s room, I could see the blinking red LED on the chamber’s stasis monitor. I had an idea. Hopefully it wouldn’t be my last Barely able to get my footing quickly enough, I tore myself away from the door despite my fear that it wouldn’t hold without my weight [...]
Antivirus – Part 5
Pazuzu again smiled with Jesse’s mouth as the two tangled creatures on either side of him howled at me with pain and fury. My feet were on the fourth and sixth steps of the next flight up before I could break my stare at the horrible creatures and begin watching where I was [...]
Specimen
Duncan Sandoval surveyed the deserted corridor. Once he became confident he was unobserved, he took a deep breath and slipped into the top-secret laboratory. The laboratory was strictly off-limits to unauthorized personnel, but Duncan was never one to abide by restrictions. A science prodigy, he’d studied his way out of the ghetto and into the [...]
Project Space Shuttle Stowaway – Part 3 – A Day of Downs and Ups and Downs”
The owner of the suit got really mad when he saw that it may have been too exciting for me and I spent a little more time back in the cold storage bay.
The Silver Dagger – Part One
People disagree about when the world ended. Some people say it happened when we ran out of water, others when we ran out of oil. When the wackjobs talked about rising wolf populations and suspicious disappearances, we didn’t listen. We focused on God, on religion, on space exploration. We talked about countries and borders and [...]
Antivirus – Part 4
As I slowly regained consciousness, I remember thinking about how I didn’t even know the little girl’s name. Her system teeming with viral nanobots, she could have essentially killed me by turning me into one of the infected. I could just as easily have killed her as I struggled to save her. Ending someone’s life [...]
Burr The Dagger: The Shades Of Justice – Part 2
The desk Sargent was engrossed in his own world of the usual paperwork he filled out day after day, week after week, on the 321 st day of the third year assigned to the central headquarters of Eco Planetary Police Force. Once, at a co-worker’s party, he was asked how he could be satisfied working [...]
Project Space Shuttle Stowaway – Part 2 – Trouble Brews
I have to type and send this one quickly… Things seem to have taken a turn for the worse up here… I’ve learned in the past few hours that there can be REALLY big differences between what one button does compared to another…and it’s pretty tough to aim your finger when you’re floating around trying [...]
