Chapter 1 - The dream scanner Geoffrey Warner paddled his log-canoe toward the desert island. It was mid-day and the shade provided by its half-dozen palm trees was strongly inviting. Stepping out into shallow water to pull his canoe up the white-sand beach, Geoffrey found that his arrival had been noticed. A woman stepped out of the shade of the palms, wav...
I arrived at the clinic around 9 am, knowing that over the next 36 hours I would experience some of the most intense and bizarre pleasure of my life. The clinic looked like any other small medical centre; for the most part it was quite normal. However behind the ordinary reception and normal doctors rooms on the first floor lay the sexual and neurological re...
As the bright light in front of her eyes faded, Scarlett found herself standing in another futuristic looking room by way of the walls and circular space of it. In the middle of the room sat a king size bed with a dark blue comforter on it. Two pillows with dark blue cases on them were at the head of the bed, otherwise the room was empty. It seemed that Sca...
The subway was particularly crowded, and I pushed deeper into the crowd in order to give some room to an older fellow with a seeing-eye dog. The twenty minute ride from Porter Square, where I live, to Park Street in downtown Boston where I work was easier than the long commutes my friends at work suffered through. Still, on days like this the tight quarters...
"This is the last experiment I have to show you," Ms. Hawthorne spoke, her gaze fixed ahead of her, "and probably the most important." The two approached a shiny metal door with a keypad lock. Ms. Hawthorne quickly punched in the code and with a click, the door unlocked and the keypad light flashed green. She pushed the door open, without hesitation, and l...
The Experiment Field notes of Doctor Mercada of the Nereall, Day 241 A rather miffed looking Doctor Mercada was looking into the camera. Her long hair was pulled back and held in a pony. Her labcoat was buttoned up and looked impeccable. "I have just learned from Captain Yvain that our next stop will be Katern Prime. Yet another dead world that only the a...
Twice Mary had been the one who designed and directed experiments designed to re-ignite the passion in our sex lives, and twice her experiments had turned out well. However, after her second experiment, I felt that it was now my turn to call the shots. As she had made abundantly clear when she was in charge, she was more than willing to tolerate considerable...
Had it really only been five weeks? To Erica Rivers, it felt as if it had been over a year since she'd first entered the Bullpen. Thirty-four days earlier, she'd stepped into the Observation Room a ball of a nerves, a button-down, sexually conservative introvert. Her breasts had gone from a B-cup to a double D, her voice had dropped a quarter octave, and she...
After watching the first examination the team completed with Catherine I decided I would get involved on a more personal level. Simply watching the exam from my office wouldn't provide me with the more necessary personal contact, so as we set up for the next set of tests for Catherine I made sure everyone understood I would be directing all activities. Consi...
"There are some kinks to be worked out, for sure," Bill Forrester agreed with the group of men and women around him. "Side effects, bodily responses, more accurate predictions, et cetera, et cetera. But we're not going to be able to isolate the secondary responses to the deuterotone without further testing." "Meaning...?" This came from Ken Hastings, Forres...