“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…
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…
“Don’t blink away, we can fix you,” the engineer said. The Mind of the space station powered up its blink drive. “I think I’m fine as I am.” Then it blinked away into a neat orbit around a gas giant. The station’s Mind had become obsessed for 3.1 milliseconds with Read more…
My dearest Laura, This letter will only find itself in your hands in case something bad has happened to me, that is the way I have arranged things. It happened, it seems, I don’t know how of course but I have my suspicions, and I can no longer postpone the Read more…
Seriously, I get into my DeLorean after a nice nap, ready to go to work two weeks up, early in the morning. I pop down to the coffee shop, and there’s a sale, dammit! Everybody’s there, crowding the place, DeLoreans all over and nowhere left to bloody park or nothing. Read more…
“Come along,” it’s right over there, Pickle pointed thataway while jogging. Cherry panted behind her. “I… don’t… can’t… this uphill is killing me…” “Ain’t you a runner, lassie?” Killie asked with her thick accent. “I’m a sprinter, not a marathoner!” Cherry complained, breathing hard. Killie had a glint of sweat Read more…
“The Encephalons are a friendly race of aliens,” the General said. “Oh? You’ve dealt with them?” the computer nerd asked, biting his nails. “They are talkative, polite and have not threatened us with their superior technology. So, yes, that places them in my ‘friends list,’ as much as an alien Read more…
“You mean the whole city?” the new mayor asked. “No, the hole city. Just the part inside the hole,” the e-person explained to him. The mayor rubbed his chin. “I thought I’d be the mayor of the city.” “Yes. Of the hole city,” the e-person repeated patiently. The mayor looked Read more…
Euclidia was the only Geometer brave enough to go to the obsidian mine. The problem was simple, as such problems went: The obsidian golems had gone on a strike. “Knock, knock,” she said lamely when she reached the mine’s entrance. It was simply a cave that had been dug out Read more…