The first time I saw Kate I thought she was someone's grandmother. Rocking slowly in a hard wooden rocking chair, next to the wood-burning stove some previous tenant had installed in what was left of our living room, she was dressed head to toe in black. She was goth long before goth, minus the hollow emaciation. Black beaded purse, black laced-up 1900's sty...
Position. That was the problem. He was sitting in the cheap apartment he'd rented to save money while he was getting his credit equivalencies, after getting back. He was frustrated and pissed off. The school work bored the shit out of him and he hated the professors at the community college. They were a pack of soft, pudgy, pasty, smirking, condescending ci...
Despite the glare of the sun reflecting directly off the glass, I could make out the portrait in the shop window. Not that the painting itself was remarkable; the subject was a girl in her late twenties, demurely dressed almost to the point of dowdy, hands folded on her lap like La Gioconda. There was no enigmatic smile but there were the eyes. I slowly pace...
Chapter one. Gwen picked up the mail from the mat, closed the front door behind with her foot and flicked the switch, turning on the main light. She dropped her coat over the back of the hall chair, next to the phone and stepped into the living room, kicking off her shoes and wriggling her toes in the pile of the carpet as she went. It had been a long day,...
1. The Thin Man The thin man with the close-cropped hair was already on the park's running track when Delia arrived for her Sunday morning exercise. She'd seen him once or twice before, arriving or leaving as she departed or arrived, but this was the first time that they'd been on the track at the same time, and only now did she realize quite how fast he wa...
"You are such a fucking pig!" Penny screamed at the top of her lungs. She could feel the eyes of every many woman and child in the food court turn towards her and her boyfriend. Taking a deep breath she wound way back and slapped him hard enough to nearly spin him around. "It's not enough that I dress up for you, you still can't keep from checking out every...
Thanks in advance for advance for any comments or suggestions! Chronicles of Danny Chapter 1 It was the first time in days that they finally felt like they belonged. Their overbearing parents had forced them to enroll in an all women college and they did not identify as a woman at all. Nor did they identify as a man, they simply just didn't identify as ei...
Laboratory Journal AV Autorecorded 2022.01.01 "Dr. Dan Cooper here, this cheery New Year's Day. Appropriate. It's time to move to the next and final phase of my experiment: a proof-of-concept of my prosthetic skin systems...with a few extras added. I've added a nano-layer of synthetic muscle underneath my latest skin, and sculpted it into a form I find...w...
Position. That was the problem. He was sitting in the cheap apartment he'd rented to save money while he was getting his credit equivalencies, after getting back. He was frustrated and pissed off. The school work bored the shit out of him and he hated the professors at the community college. They were a pack of soft, pudgy, pasty, smirking, condescending ci...
There is much in this world that the narrow human psyche cannot encompass. From the time they snapped their backs into an upright stance and strode forth from the jungles to the wide plains, humans have been assiduously paring down the world to match their view of it. Those poor mongrels near enough to their own species to be almost-but-not-quite right were...