"The Israelis don't mess around, do they?" Tyler said. "It's better to be respected and feared than admired and revered," Bobby said. Within eighteen hours of the President of the United States speaking with the Prime Minister of Israel, Emily Fredette had been apprehended by agents of the Mossad. Three hours after that all members of the Sororibus had bee...
Only Marcella and Richard know PLATO's true powers, but the outside world is rapidly closing in. Others have found out about the PLATO project and are trying to steal PLATO... or at least enough of him to grow their own neural network computer. This story stands-- more or less-- on its own but might make more sense if you have read the previous chapters. P...
I am a good soldier but even good soldiers get captured. I did not see her and there really is no excuse for that. My only consolation is that I am not alone. Before I realized she was in front of me I felt the collar slip around my throat. I'd been told what to expect in training but nothing can prepare you for the complete loss of power. My muscles all rel...
Jess had always loved technology. For as long as she could remember she had not felt comfortable without a spanner in her hand or a keyboard under her fingertips. She had obsessed with artificial intelligence, of being able to talk with machines, and for them to communicate back. She worked at what she loved, in a lab surrounded by high-functioning but soc...
Here it was, our anniversary, and my wife was away on business. "What a bummer!" I thought, as I went to answer the door, yawning and stretching myself awake. I was giving myself a lazy morning, with nothing much else to do. The messenger on my doorstep was delivering a large packet to me, Jay Sutton, at our home on this, a Saturday. Mysteriously, the retur...
Photographer Greg & Teacher Greg Johnson was arguably the best junior photographer of all times. When he was in Junior High School he started photographing all the senior high games in every sport. His eight grade class had a show where any student could display his or her art. He made a display of his action shots for his entry. He not only won the blue ri...
Chapter 25: Complete Desire The next few days, news quickly made its rounds among the techs, scientists, and researchers on the small island that Ezenia had a new pet, and was using her to completely humiliate the workers. Carrie's ordeal and the subsequent release of a certain tape to her family had made all of the women fear for themselves. Even though th...
We lost one of our best men to this rather skilled matriarchy patrol. I was really pissed imagining Carl collared and controlled. That was no life for a male warrior. We decided to extract a little revenge. To an outsider it looked like we had gotten sloppy. It didn't hurt that most matriarchy military commanders held dim views at to our intellectual capacit...
Ambitious Melisand wants to get out of her dead-end job with a move to the Marketing Department. Office Politics chapter 2 told how she made sure her lecherous boss Mr Jones would not try to stop her. Now she has to impress Mr Edwards, the Head of Marketing, and without sharing too much of the credit. === I finished the report for Mr Edwards in the morning...
I am a lucky, lucky man. I met Brenda twenty-seven years ago when she was just a cute girl in high school. Honestly, I really didn't pay any attention because I thought she was really a couple years younger than she looked. A couple of months later, I discovered that in fact she was 18 and graduating high school. Being that I was in my twenties, I thought sh...