“It’s called a what, now?” I still didn’t understand what she’d told me despite the entire knowledge of Ship’s memory banks behind me. “A Zero Room,” Interface dutifully replied, but I could tell that I was annoying her. I’d taken way too many opportunities to demonstrate my ignorance. “And no time exists in there?” IContinue reading “Zero Point Emissions”
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Then again…
“I’m sorry to tell you this,” the doctor said, setting my file down on his desk. “But every result is negative. Toxicology. Radiology. CAT. EKG. X-Ray. Everything negative. No signs of physical trauma that would account for it. As far as I can tell, you’re perfectly healthy.” I listened, but all I knew was theContinue reading “Then again…”
Otherwise
I awoke to something warm, soft, and fleshy pressed against my back, with an arm draped over my waist that was not mine. Someone was in bed with me, and they weren’t supposed to be there. I disengaged in alarm and after rolling to what had to be a safe distance given the limits ofContinue reading “Otherwise”
Afterwards
I woke up flat on my back staring at a slew of blue swirlie-cues, which turned out to be the ceiling. After that revelation sank in, I took a look around before doing anything else. Nope. It wasn’t all just a freakish nightmare. The weird furniture was still there, as well as the high-tech mushroom,Continue reading “Afterwards”
The End
“Aha!” I burst into the console room, yelling to grab the dinosaur’s attention. He turned away from the console in surprise, immediately leveling his pistol at me, and I voluntarily stopped dead in my tracks. My plan had worked a little too well. “How did you -?” he spluttered before shaking his head violently andContinue reading “The End”
Escapade
I couldn’t do anything, of course, until I escaped from that closet. I tried the door, but the knob wouldn’t turn. “Locked?” I couldn’t believe it. “Really? Who locks a closet? Who even has a lock on their closet?” I turned my back on the offending door and my eyes toward the ceiling to addressContinue reading “Escapade”
Awareness
What is the moment when we first become self-aware? When we realize that we are individuals with our own thoughts and feelings? Where do our memories even begin? My first memory was when I was four or five, watching Star Trek and waiting for my brother to come home from school. At least, that’s whatContinue reading “Awareness”
Houseplant
The moment she set it on his desk, he looked up from the laptop, glared at it, and said, “Don’t put that there.” She scowled down at him, hand hovering near the plant. “I don’t have anywhere else to put it.” He looked up at her. “You still don’t, now put it somewhere else.” SheContinue reading “Houseplant”
Blocked
He stared at the screen for a long time, deliberately thinking of nothing, and not even its brilliant glow sparked anything good. It wasn’t writer’s block. There were plenty of ideas pouring into his mind, but all of them were dark and morbid and had no place in either his head or in the book.Continue reading “Blocked”
To Our Last Breath
She successfully got around the rioting crowds and the insanity and finally made it! It wasn’t easy, but she was used to slipping past angry liberals and violent protestors, and it was only a matter of time before she reached safety. That’s what she kept telling herself, and she was right, as usual. She madeContinue reading “To Our Last Breath”
