“You’ll grow the best strains of weed all day,” the ad said, and Jay was instantly hooked. What could possibly be better than that? A life of just tending the garden, growing your space weed, relaxing, taking a whiff. Awesomesauce. “Where do I sign?” Jay said, excited. They dropped him Read more…
Sleep and you’re dead. It’s that simple. Or, even worse, you join the ranks of undead. As I never was a sci-fi fan before it all went to shit, I had never considered what I’d do in a zombie apocalypse. I was surprised to find out when it actually came Read more…
“Oh, damn!” my girlfriend texted, along with a string of frowny face and expletive emoticons. “What happened?” I immediately texted back, fearing the worst. No, it wasn’t weird that she texted instead of calling me on the phone, we texted back and forth for days without listening to each other’s Read more…
“My face is all wrong. Ugly,” the woman said. “Why do you say that?” the man said. His voice came at a pastiche of highs and lows, like a distortion on the radio. “Look at it!” the woman cried out, pointing at her face. “It doesn’t matter what I think, Read more…
Bob stood at attention before his epigeous garden. They all did, all the shroom farmers. The inspector walked before them with her clipboard and her sour face. “Hm,” she said, checking out Francine’s garden. She made a note on her clipboard and moved on. “Uh-huh,” she said in an appreciative Read more…
Note: I… uh… was planning to just make a one-off out of this, but it turned out as I was researching it that the story is worth a lot more. So this will become a nanodaemons story at some point. The train arrived at Piraeus station. Blanche had taken the Read more…
Jimmy had arrived to the edge of reality. Eh… Could be better. It was full of jelly. And vines, but mostly jelly. No, really, it was rather hilarious. Jimmy jumped up and down, and the ground, the seemingly stable dirt and rocks, bounced him back up like a bouncy castle. Read more…
“It’s very simple, really,” Father Capponi said. “The robot gets to be the boy’s spiritual father.” “What do you gain out of this arrangement?” the man said, cautiously. “That way it gets to learn about people,” Mario said, arms wide in an honest pose. The man thought about it. “Okay, Read more…
In a world parallel to our own, the rich and powerful had their own zeppelins. They liked to strut around over us mere mortals, and the zeppelin demand suddenly grew bigger. The logical next step in their illogical minds was to make a big zeppelin city. After all, all those Read more…
Herb really liked Dune, so he made a planet just like it. In the beginning it was just an amusement park costing something short of a quadrillion dollars, a rough estimate at that. As the colossal project went into development and years went by, people forgot what it was Read more…