2. Anna and the 'essence'. I had a quick cereal-toast and tea breakfast and left early to deliver the sample to mother. It will be three days until I get results. The rest of the day was taken up with joe-jobs and thoughts of the previous evening. Did I have Peter in my spider's web? Apart from the potential high-titre sample, did I want to have him in my l...
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...
Whose children are they then? Dr. Subramaniam, the director of the Genetics & Fertility Institute, was polite and professional when he broke the bitter news to me. "We are very sorry, Mr. Halsbeth. But I am afraid that your sperm is simply not suitable for our donor program." Not suitable? Based on their brochures, I would have thought that I was the p...
It was time for my annual physical, and like always, I had waited until the last minute. I was afraid this would happen, "I'm sorry, Mr. Mann, but your doctor doesn't have any appointments for physicals available until February. I can try and set you up with someone else if you don't want to wait that long." I figured that was better than nothing, so told h...
She was sitting in her command chair on the bridge of the ship while studying the information that was displayed on the holographic datapad that she held in her hand. The subject she was observing was the ideal candidate for what her species was in need of. He was in his sexual prime, healthily, lived in a rural part of his world and exhibited the traits tha...
Sam awoke that morning to the sound of a jackhammer pounding the pavement outside. He blinked in the inky blackness of his apartment. From his bed he reached to the nightstand and flipped on the lamp. His eyes adjusted to the light as he looked down the rectangle of his room towards the front door. The room was about seven feet wide and fifteen feet long. It...
"I'm getting some weird discharge from my nipples," Kelly said, squirming uncomfortably on the examination table. She hated going to the student health center, but where else was one to go while in college? At least they didn't immediately make her strip and put her feet up in the stirrups. The doctor's manner was kind enough. He looked like a dropout from...
Julie and Stan were lying in bed together, having just finished watching a movie. A rom-com that Julie had picked out to cleanse Stan's choice of a hard sci-fi film that they had watched before. Between and during, they'd fooled around. The first incident happened halfway through the superhero movie. Julie had gotten up for a fresh snack and Stan couldn't re...
Paul followed the two pretty girls through the halls of the school, until they reached a door labelled with a gold plate reading "Nurse Claire Lilly". Jessica slowly opened the door; it led to a small room with a white tiled floor. As they entered, a medical examination table became visible and a beautiful young woman with bright blonde hair dressed in light...
For all its affected luxury, the Hotel Royale offered a merely adequate breakfast. Derek Talbot resolved that he would find a nicer place for lunch. Bow Hill -- the alleged resort town where he was staying - boasted one street, a strip that was a half mile long, burgeoning with all manner of restaurants, taverns and hotels. The place reminded him of Gatlinbu...