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: Science 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
Prometheus’ Example
Micheal couldn't bear the pain. He screamed out from the agony of every convulsing muscle, every singed hair, every bruise, cut, crack, and tear. He cried out to the people on the streets to help him. He begged them to entreat Prometheus, hoping that it would show him mercy. Nobody stopped. Like the dutiful citizens … Continue reading Prometheus’ Example
Wonder’s Witness: Introduction
The cosmos has lived longer than any mortal could understand. It has billions of years in its lifetime thus far, and so does sentient life, let alone life as a whole. The universe is made of incomprehensibly large numbers, and unfathomably minuscule numbers too. It is made of numbers and complexities and marvels and magics that no mortal being can truly … Continue reading Wonder’s Witness: Introduction
The Minosoa Case
In the small town of Minosoa, the people prided themselves on their cattle. Their cattle were the fattest and most profitable around. Minosoa always came first in county fairs, and the towns people were some of the wealthiest in the state. So, when the cattle began to disappear, the … Continue reading The Minosoa Case
AnDiva
Hisako glared at the Holovision as the next ad played. Yet another AnDiva whose name Hisako neither remembered nor cared to remember was advertising her new album, renting software of her voice to songwriters, and advertising a concert in the area. Hisako turned the ad off and walked to the bathroom. She looked in the … Continue reading AnDiva
Carter's Compendium 