“I don’t know how you found me,” the dinosaurian hissed, pulling out their unusual gun and leveling it at me, “But I won’t allow you to interfere with my experiment!” “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” I still jumped at the sight of a gun aimed right at me. Habit. “What’s that thing for?” The saurian glanced atContinue reading “Linked”
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Overwhelmed
I sat on the sofa in the main room while I sat at my desk in the office, and she stood in the archway between us, deliberately not looking in the direction of the sofa. “This is just too weird,” she muttered to herself. “You’re telling me?” We spoke in chorus, which brought the heelsContinue reading “Overwhelmed”
Zero Point Emissions
“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”
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”
