There I sat, PM on a Friday night on the fifty-seventh floor of the Delta Tower. All I had to do was finish looking over some progress reports and I would be done for the weekend. Taking note of the success rate for my main experiment, I stood up and walked over to the floor-to-ceiling that overlooked the entire city. I could faintly see my reflection in the...
James Haverstein III, research and production director for the Serious Cybernetics Corporation, bit down on his cigar end. The sharp suited woman next to him looked across with mild distaste but said nothing. Amanda Howard from the company's legal team was used to working with board members she didn't much like but Haverstein's cigar habit, even if he didn't...
Dominis came into the control compartment and scanned the console before making his relief and saw that the cybernetics were switched off and the feed to the internal intelligence was bypassed. "What happened, Petruk, did the ship malfunction?" he asked. "You're on deck early," Petruk said. "Trouble sleeping?" "According to my chron it's past my watch," D...
In the near future technology body and mind modification have become reality. Nymph Co. begins the business of nymph modification and services once sex work and indentured service are legalized. A Nymph is one who signs up for modification and sexual servitude in exchange for money, debt forgiveness, penance of wrongdoing, or other compensation. Once Signed...
I remember what started it. I was standing in the kitchen, staring at a pile of dirty dishes, late on a Saturday morning. Little serving plates and wine glasses had been stacked haphazardly in both of the big stainless steel tubs and had spilled over onto the island's countertop, bits of food still clinging to many of them. Every bit of counter space around...
(Should note this is my first story, so progress might be slow and changes will be constant :'D) Cerberus is the largest colony built on Pluto to date. With a population bordering 5 million people all shoved into one, outdated colonization bubble, resources have been limited, and those who hold the most, hold the most power. The police do exist, and even a...
The mass world of Ameleon, a world of fantasy. Please note there can be technology from medieval to futuristic, and for the sake of mmo even. Weapons beyond musket are very very rare and often cosmetic. But cybernetics and such are allowed. Recently Ameleon's development brought in a flux of people as the betas ended and the game launched players flooded the...
"The future is dark and dazzling with no means of escape from reality." Neon Shroud is a city of clustered cultures and crowded spaces. Where mega blocks and living areas are crammed to make crude quarters for the living, the skies are perpetually cloaked with a dark haze, and the bustle never ends. Here, towering skyscrapers pierce the havens a...
Sorry it took me so long to write this chapter. I was a busy with my other books. ***** I saw blaster fire shot over the barricade from both sides. I had only been here a week and now I was part of some futuristic uprising. "Give me back my daughter." Hellena said from the other side of the barricade. "Not until you give us our freedom." Rex shouted back...
Imagine for a second that you're in a restaurant-of those poncy deals where they won't even consider hiring a maitre'd without a british accent-and you "accidentally" drop your glass of obnoxiously overpriced wine to stall for time. Before it can ruin the exquisite Persian rug, however, it needs to reach the point halfway between there and your hand-and befo...