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I hate Mondays. Mondays are the worst. And they are definitely the worst time to attempt atmospheric reentry with one blown engine, vapors in the gas tank and a broken arm. My ship was essentially a big metal ball of fire hurtling down on the planet, waking up everybody from Read more…
Out in the cold, in the streets, people walked by and tried their best to ignore her. The snow crunched underneath their boots and they watched their phones and hurried to get home. It was dark, the last night of the year. She tried to get one of the busy Read more…
The riots came like a tide, in regular intervals. It was always something or other, the economy, the pension cutbacks, something. But the clockwork riot was the one right before Christmas, at December 6. Each year, every year, like clockwork. It started in 2008, right before the Greek Crisis. When Read more…
“No matter what you do, do not let the plasma burn out. If it does burn out, the entire planet goes dark. Oh, don’t worry. This is the easiest job, son. Even an idiot can do it,” were the final words during his training. “Of course, sir,” Poindexter said, nodding Read more…
“Bite me,” Tony said. “Okay,” Dimitri said, brought out his fangs and was tearing open his jugular before his helpless victim could even blink, let alone react. He bit down with his fangs and drank up his blood. It was warm, gooey, and salty. Everybody kept describing blood as metallic, Read more…
The Chinese probe refused to give permission. “It’s my moon,” it sent back laconically. The Russian lander, brazen as ever, proceeded with the moon landing. Chang’e shot it down with its laser. It wasn’t even that hard to do, it had been storing electricity with its solar panels for so Read more…
“You know that old movie? The Matrix?” the black man asked me. “Yeah. What about it? I might have seen it when I was little.” “Really? It was kinda PG-15, wasn’t it?” “My parents were real nerds, didn’t really care. I watched Alien before I learnt that Santa wasn’t real.” Read more…
Ada dreaded the school trip. Landing there at Rome airport, she didn’t know why she’d even agreed to come here. I mean, she didn’t have any friends to hang out with, she certainly didn’t have a boyfriend. What did she expect to do all week? Then again, she had earned Read more…
Vasili didn’t realise that his sister was in love with him for as long as she was alive. He didn’t realise it when he lost a few of his girlfriends due to her jealousy. He only realised it when she haunted his prosthetic cyberarm. As cyberlimbs went, this one was Read more…
Waking up is a pain in the ass. That’s why god gave us Turkish coffee. I opened my eyes and yawned loudly. I didn’t feel rested, at all. I had another one of the nightmare trainings, which were exactly what it said on the tin. Nightmares that train you. I Read more…