Month: 2012/06
-
2012 June 16
-
2012 June 15
-
2012 June 12
-
Today is Rush Day
[ ... 215 words ... ]
-
2012 June 09
-
Happy anniversary to me! (oh and for us too)
[ ... 1 words ... ]
-
Homebrew Biotech Club
The homebrew club got real interesting last night. Jerry started dating this girl Maddy, and she was something else: purple hair, piercings, and a load of tattoos. And then there’s Jerry: bearded, balding, and been carrying a spare tire for years now. I can see the appeal for him, but she’s out of his league. [ ... 181 words ... ]
-
On the Market
It had been a busy week: she’d had her teeth whitened, removed four tattoos, dyed her hair back to its natural color, and gotten her optical implants updated. She’d also lost 4 pounds, working furiously over the past month in the fitness center on the ground floor of her apartment building. Her body had never looked more toned. She almost didn’t want to leave it. [ ... 183 words ... ]
-
THIS IS COFFEE.
[ ... 1 words ... ]
-
2012 June 04
-
Lonely Timeless Flight
He kicks back, alone at a corner table in low-g. He nurses a high gravity beer for the alcoholic irony. It’s his fourth, and the faces around him are blurred. Funny thing, though: with his glasses on, the faces would have been blurred even if he’d been sober. [ ... 184 words ... ]
-
Moravec’s Cats
Every ship-morning, I woke up covered in a half-dozen cats. Sometime in the ship-night, they’d wander in from the ducts and find spots to curl up around my sleeping body, virtually pinning me under the sheet and all purring from speaker grilles when I stirred. [ ... 175 words ... ]
-
Stuxnet was awesome, right?
The toaster wouldn’t toast, and the microwave wouldn’t—umm—make tiny heat waves, or whatever it does. The fridge, though, the fridge had slow-cooked everything inside overnight and the apartment stank like delicious death. [ ... 177 words ... ]
-
Bookshelves
The day they moved in together, he remarked upon how heavy and numerous were all her boxes of books. [ ... 182 words ... ]