"Finally, it's here," you exclaim, your anticipation palpable as you carefully extract a sleek box from the nondescript packaging, all against the backdrop of your modest apartment. With a sense of urgency, you lug the box across the worn-out floor, the gravity of its contents sparking excitement in your eyes. As you reach your destination – the sa...
1 Now that it looked like things were starting to settle down, Mark wanted to get some insight into how everyday life was for most citizens. Angela suggested that everyone come to her home, since it was time she returned anyway. She tapped a couple of icons on her wrist and ordered a lift. Liyana, Gyges and Maren opted to stay at the palace to plan the n...
Everyone has heard about the government cutbacks, everyone it would appear except Alysson. Alysson is a teacher, in fact she is the ICT co-ordinator for a primary school I work with. I'm an IT technician with a bigger school. Alysson had made a massive request for a piece of software to run on the whole network. The software was expensive, complicated to c...
part 3: The Sleeper I'm frozen. My perceptions have slowed, and in turn time seems to have accelerated. Beyond my lidded eyes the days fly by in panoramic flashes of light. Of all this I'm only dimly aware, occasionally drifting off into bizarre frigid dreams. I'm caught in a mental limbo. I haven't died, but in my state I'm neither amongst the living. I'm...
Lois lay curled in a ball on her bed, listening to the beat of her heart. She lay awake like this most nights, playing with the shadows that would slowly climb up her wall, dancing against the light as the hours wore on and the gentle moonlight and humid heat slipped through the open doors of the balcony with the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, som...
At his own request, Frank Wolf was cremated, and Ada and Frank's surviving son, Jess, took the ashes up to the glade of the upper fork of Wolf Creek, where he and Ada had been married and, together, they scattered the ashes. Jess was a perfect gentleman, which Ada found quite surprising. But Frank had told Ada some time earlier that Festus's death had sobere...
This is a story in three parts, all of which are in this post. It starts rather slowly as it follows Donna Reynolds and her decision to be implanted so that she can be successful in the world. It is rather mild sexually, but somewhat upsetting in theme as it sets forth a fictional future world that may be less improbable than some would think. In fact, we ma...
She walks slowly down the busy sidewalk, head held high, eyes straight ahead. She is walking so slowly, in fact, that the morning commuters rush around her like a swiftly running river sluicing around a large boulder set down by the gods at the dawn of time. No one even glances at her, it's as if she is just a part of the landscape, an obstacle to be avoided...
Being the new guy in the office was never fun. I'd been hired on at an accounting firm to do IT support and was given to the main floor where the bulk of the computers were. It also meant I was reporting to the secretaries supervisor, Claire, who thought I should have the same expectations as her team, something we clashed on from the start. She was a stereo...
I am a successful businesswoman. Or at least I was, until he came along. I have always prided myself on my intellect, my attention to detail, and my ability to multi-task. I manage a fairly large landscape company, staffed almost entirely by men, and am generally regarded as being tough as nails. At home, it is much the same, as my husband is content to leav...