I awoke sharply from a feverish dream, where I was standing with statuesque stillness and completely naked at a conference…
Future Orientation
“You can not travel back in time. It’s impossible and why would you want to? But time travel is possible,…
Spectres
A home is a place you should feel safe. A place to keep the dangers out. The spectres were dissolving…
Beneath the Canyons
“The difference,” said Detective Shawn Trenton, “between successful people and unsuccessful people is in your definition of success.” The argument…
Strained Servers
“A day is like a pool of water. It looks permanent, it looks still, like it’s always there, but it…
The Day Editors
The perfect world. That is where I lived. Nothing bad ever happened. The news was only good news. The government…
Feeding Frenzy
The warm, acidic sea teased the arctic coastline, just a few feet from the entrance of the seed bank. It…
The Lithium Murders
My phone battery was dead. I was on my own. I heard them sneaking around in the overgrown garden of…
Paranoidia
It was a rude awakening. The holo-link even woke my children, they stirred in the darkness of their bedrooms and…
The Testament Collector
The pile of bodies was fresh, I knew that much from the lack of stench, and the blood was wet.…
The Burning Lands
As Fire Response Marshal, Chuck Seager had a high life insurance. His wife had long left him but his estranged…
All There is to Know about Love
As an artificial human I liked to study the real ones. They would move a little different than I did.…
Karma Cops
The five surly policemen were practiced at being intimidating. They walked like lions, padding through the plains, unafraid of any…
The Update
The tall hallway in my house seemed unreasonably quiet, as if spectres were lurking and judging me from the corners.…
The Cookie Monster
I was normally more careful about idle chatter or looking at things I wanted. When I saw the broad-shouldered guy…
Monsters of Mars
“That…That is a monster.” He was right. He did what anyone would do when faced with a monster. He took…
Countdown to Zero
Like most people, the best part of the day for Harrison was the preparation in the morning. From his pillow…
Boiling Point
When a kettle boils, it’s like a small scream. But in a long day those small screams need to happen.…
Little Feathering
The village hall was as cold as a mountain lair when the local folk edged in to fill its cavernous…
Love and War
I was on the shuttle to the city centre when Bill, my ‘life coach AI’ decided to request a session.…