It was time. As you walk through your lab, you listen to the machines hum, spin, and whir in the background—their mechanical symphony playing in time to your steps across the polished floor. All the surrounding space seemed to rejoice together as the moment of your retribution grew nigh. For too long, you had stood in the shadows of your peers as they mocked...
Hi All, Blozo here. I'm a fat old retired Registered Nurse who hasn't had an erection in ten years. I write some pretty wild fiction. And I use a lot of descriptions that other authors use too. It never fails that someone in the comments section gets all bent out of shape about the fact, and I hereby stipulate that it is a fact, that what I'm describing...
"We're out of Taq polymerase." "No, we're not," I said. I'd been late getting to work this morning, the car was showing signs of breaking down (not that I would know what's wrong with it—and I hate mechanical issues), and my plates were showing no sign of growth—the agar as smooth as a baby's bottom. The last thing I wanted to see was Vasili Kurakov and his...
It all started with a letter from the hospital, I had had an accident in my car I must have blacked out for a second and hit a tree. The car was written off but I was physically ok, or so I thought. I was taken to hospital by ambulance to be checked out and was kept in for just over a week. It turns out that I had a COPD attack (chronic, obstructive, pulmona...
Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex. ***** When travelling between stars, every gram of matter costs, even using the jump drive. Even on a heavy-haul freighter like the Hippo that lumbers along at a dilation of twelve, making months into years, the energy required to jump a spec of dust to almost the speed of light...
I have been an "A" student since grade school and graduated number one in my high school class. My father is a doctor, and my mother is an attorney. Both of them have always set high standards for me, and it has always been important to me to meet their expectations. Although you might suspect that I am a geek, I have always been popular among my classmates...
We were up at first light and getting ready for the trip home. I was starting to get a little fed up with the way my women were fussing over me, and treating me like I was an invalid. I could take just so much! Finally I went outside, to see about getting things ready to move. That's when the shit really hit the fan. They all came over and started raising he...
Chapter 2 Ann They tell me that I'm through with in-patient therapy, so I get to go home tomorrow. My burns are as good as they're going to get, apparently, and I can finally put some concealer on them, which helps. I have to tell you that I'm thoroughly sick of hospitals, but at the same time, I'm pretty nervous about going home. Here, everybody is focuse...
We roll our last down the halls of the operating room toward recovery long after most of the other surgeries have ended. I drag my feet slightly, tired from operating since twelve hours before. I lay my lazy left hand on the side of the gurney, gently directing it through the few remaining beds waiting for the rest of the other long surgeries to be done. I s...
Ok, it's something one doesn't admit to doing. You, me, us watch the Soaps? NEVER! But it's strange how millions of people around the world are addicted to the Soap Operas. Interesting how you kinda know what's happening in the nightmare, complex world of these serialized dramas because you have a friend or relative who is one of these millions of addicted...