The tests continued. The prisoner was sent out on the streets (under surveillance, of course), and ordered to hold up this bank, to rob that store, to pickpocket this man, to throw that plastic cup into the river. Each time, the prisoner tried, he exerted all of the willpower he could muster to just pull … Continue reading The Heart: Part 2
Category: Fiction
The Stranger in a Subjective Land: Pt 1
Adrian soared across the skies as he looked down at the road below. The Consensus Bureau insisted that there be a road down there, but not that it have any particular appearance. In Adrian's reality, that road was paved with the whitest marble on earth. He oftentimes wondered what the crystalline city he saw looked … Continue reading The Stranger in a Subjective Land: Pt 1
The Heart: Pt 1
The Heart made a high, happy sound as the surgeons removed it from its box. Those sounds of sentience amazed Dr Stewart, and he doubted they would cease to. Gently, he removed it from the box and assessed the patient's brain, sizing up exactly where to place it. Then, slowly and steadily, he took the … Continue reading The Heart: Pt 1
A Typical Chat
Stop talking to me. I mean it. No, I'm not going to ruin this. Stop, I worked hard on this painting and you know it. Yes, this is the best I can do, and I'm rather content with it. Stop telling me to cut myself, it's not going to happen. Well, this paint could use … Continue reading A Typical Chat
A Message at Midnight: Part 3
I went to the basketball game, I put the folder under my chair, and I sat there for the rest of the game, just as I was instructed. The folder didn't explode, the folder didn't gas the room, and by the time the game was over, it was gone. In its place was a small … Continue reading A Message at Midnight: Part 3
In-Body Experience
The man watched as he saw the entity walk into the house. He watched as it took the knife and stroked it across its hand, relishing in the blood that resulted. He watched as it came into the bedroom, walked to the sleeper, and methodically stroked the knife across her body. He knew that the … Continue reading In-Body Experience
He Who Steals Time
He Who Steals Time arrived at his next target. He saw a woman, and the infant that she held in her arms. He took a strange device from his belt, one similar to a pocket watch, but with far more hands, and a queer crystal lens at the top. He peered through the lens at … Continue reading He Who Steals Time
Wonder’s Witness 3: Elemental Husbandry
I am glad to say that I often visit in my preferred forms when people see a world inhabited by the Maerrian civilization, for it is truly a sight unlike any other. In a Maerrian city, you'll see people riding on powerful winds to get to their jobs, stone blocks and steel beams that will … Continue reading Wonder’s Witness 3: Elemental Husbandry
A Message at Midnight: Part 2
Last night, I went to the location that was specified, arriving (as I often do) half an hour early. The location had turned out to be a vacant lot in the dead center of the bad part of town. To say it wasn’t an ideal location is quite the understatement, so I brought a pistol … Continue reading A Message at Midnight: Part 2
The Librarian
The librarian crouched behind her desk. The night had finally fallen, and she was finally going to catch whoever was stealing books from the religious section. She listened for footsteps for hours Nothing. The librarian decided she would simply set call it a night. She got up, looked at the bookshelves, and jumped at what … Continue reading The Librarian
Carter's Compendium 