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“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
“So, what? We’re each other’s kryptonite?” “Seems so, yes.” The superhero looked at his girlfriend. They had been together all their lives. Never separated, never more than a hundred meters or so apart. In retrospect, they should have figured it out sooner. It was only when they had their first Read more
“It’s not his fault,” Fatalia said, setting herself up on the bed. She was naked on the satin sheets and the feeling was amazing, she never got bored of it even though she had been working on a similar bedding for the past seventy years. “How can it not be?” Read more
The ground shook. Streets broke in little chasms, pots fell and smashed on the floors, windows cracked. “The mountain is displeased,” the Topmost Faithful said. The other Faithful agreed. It was time for the sacrifice. It wasn’t an annual thing, heck, it wasn’t even a decennial one. The unspoken rule Read more
Evander, it seemed, was looking for love in all the wrong places. The last place he ever expected to find his soulmate was hidden away in a shadow dimension. At first, it wasn’t much to look at. Just a neon-looking, wireframe-like version of the city he’d spent his entire life Read more
