02/02/2025
“Mom! I’m home!” I yelled the way I did everyday after school, and usually she was right there to complain about something. My room was always a favorite topic, or how she always did all the work and I didn’t do none of it. Or how tough it was baking cookies all day long and […]
09/24/2024
Dr Zeta Hallsmith was a relatively ordinary looking woman; her dark hair seemed permanently pulled back harshly and knotted at the nape of her neck and she wore thick-rimmed glasses that accentuated her pointed face and thin lips. She had never had the inclination for the finer comforts of other women; her life was her work, which unfortunately left little …
09/24/2024
Barbara is tall, about 5′ 7″, slender and light-boned, so that her 127 pounds are not skinny. She wears her deep brown hair short and curly, and dresses for business in tailored pantsuits, with just a touch of color in her accessories. Although she appears to be in her early thirties, she will celebrate her forty-second birthday this coming November.…
09/11/2024
Some guests were already in the room. Jack sat on the phony log bench and adjusted his tie. A couple of robot park rangers stood inertly. They waited patiently for the showtime to arrive. Could a robot wait patiently? Jack had done this before. Camping was one of the cheaper recreational activities you could do […]
09/11/2024
That there was anything unusual in this fact did not register within his processors immediately. He had received the command over a thousand times in the past without failure and, having registered its efficacy, redundancy checks upon its functioning had long been discarded along with the efficacy record. One reason why any check on the […]