What Price For Progress
The hover taxi lurched along the low streets of Sector 12. The driver’s eyes glanced at the camera display monitor showing a grainy image of the back of the…
(Day 11) My Rambling Mind
And now for something... completely true for a change. I have a problem. It’s a genetic one (I think) and I’ve crawled all over the internet for a solution…
Waiting
It’s not that she felt hopeless. She wasn’t even scared. Not really, anyway. It was the waiting that made this so hard. Brad came back in. He wasn’t smiling…
Freak Show
I hung my legs over the edge of the abandoned landing platform. It was noon, the sun was bright and the sky was a light blue. The wispy clouds drifted by as I…
204,214 + 2
Sirius told me I should write. “It’ll be a good exercise. Someday this thing could be a veritable bible for the ones who come after us.” That’s what he said…
What Man Hath Wrought
Humans have terrible issues with identity. From the moment of your birth and to the point of death, you desperately pursue some lasting sense of identification…
Humanity's Flame
The flame danced along his fingertips as he stared into the crowd. Looking for her. They showed up by the droves to watch him perform, but never that one…
Cluck
Their genes were bent so they didn’t grow feathers, but this was small beans; it was their nervous system that took the real engineering. They were also raised…
A Monster
A tall, masculine looking woman approached the podium before the amassed biologists and geneticists. There were murmurs in the crowd they had expected Hans…
The Future Is Past
Wendell Beeks arrived on stegosaurus. The second he dismounted Hanna began to make a scene, starting an animal rights tirade which proved to be her narration…
Carbon Copy
I awoke. It was dark, but somewhere a dull green light throbbed gently. I was submerged, floating, in some sort of tank. I could breathe, there was a mask…
Genetic Drift
After Faerie returned, the mundane corporations, naturally, scrambled to figure out how to capitalize on new revenue streams, how to maximize profits beyond…