“It used to be the other way around, you know,” Jacob said, taking a swig of his beer of his beer from the bottle and keeping the liquid in his mouth. It looked cool, drinking that way. Connor did the same and almost chocked, coughing up the beer. “How’s so?” Read more…
How did the sphere work? Frank Shelley didn’t know. All he did know, was that he put it on the corpse of a postman, and he was now following him like a puppy. Obedient. Frank turned back to look at the dead guy. He wasn’t completely dead, since he was Read more…
“Why, oh why, did I volunteer for this?” Dytis cried out moments before the jump. He looked down at the swirling clouds of the gas giant. The shapes and swirls were mesmerising, like an endless cup of latte and him being the sugar cube ready to dip inside. Hope he Read more…
“What do you mean, ‘you’ll each get a half’?” the boy’s father asked. The judge leaned back on his leather chair. “Half a child each, half goes to you, and half goes to your ex-wife,” he said, pointing towards her. The mother simply stared at him, mouth slightly open. “Let Read more…
“Once you’d created your population of realistically reacting and – in a necessary sense – cogitating individuals, you had – also in a sense – created life. The particular parts of whatever computational substrate you’d devoted to the problem now held beings; virtual beings capable of reacting so much like Read more…
“Whoops,” the man said and pulled his hands away from the keyboard. She placed her coke on the table. “Whoops? This is not the time for whoopsies, John.” “Um… I may have fried someone’s brain,” the man said panicking. “You what?” She yelped and sat on her workstation across him. Read more…
Pharos woke up from the sounds of screaming. He yawned and slowly rubbed his eyes as the bloodcurdling screams went on and on, reverberating along the metal corridors of the lighthouse. He stood up and washed his face, the screams so loud now that his eyes vibrated and he saw Read more…
I think I’m smart, and then I do dumb things like these and slap myself silly. On a previous post I said I’d be ditching Patreon. The reason was the following: I wanted to challenge myself by writing a short story every day, which I call spitwrite because it’s rude Read more…
“Godex denies your application for a change of god.” “But why?” the believer cried out, dropping on his knees. The temple was enormous, which was fitting since Godex was massive indeed. He had three pairs of arms and two pairs of legs, but he never used them, floating on air. Read more…
The Magenta Caterpillars’ leader gathered everyone up. “We need to wipe out the Greens!” he shouted. “Yeah!” the Magentas cheered from below, rippling their bodies. “They’re a scourge,” another said. “Wipe them out of the face of the earth,” a third said, disgusted by their presence alone. “Great,” the Magenta Read more…