Sarah was a normal 22 year old girl, living in the not too distant future. Life was good, for the most part. Modern medical science had allowed for the elimination of almost all disease, and with the introduction of nano-robotic technology, human life expectancy was said to be doubling without the signs normally associated with aging. Still, there were crime...
This was my third new city in the last ten years. It seemed like every time I got comfortable in a city I got transferred to a new location to try and sort out the issues at the office in the new location. It was a challenging job to lean the ins and outs of the office and the people there, and learn a new city and culture at the same time. Having just spent...
As he crossed my path, we almost collided and I heard him mumble, "Sorry," in a deep, sexy voice. He didn't look more than 21 years old. He was black, as black as a black man can be. He stood about five foot eight with short cropped hair and eyes that showed an expression of cold indifference. He looked dangerous. I knew he didn't work in the building becau...
Waiting. These long periods of idle waiting really do get on my nerves. There is simply nothing going on then, not a single thing at all. I am just standing around, doing nothing but to wait all the time. And it is not just for a couple of hours, sometimes I have to wait for days, even weeks before something happens. I keep wondering how spiders can cope wit...
A choice of punishments? It had been 15 years since they had started tightening up the littering laws, and for the last 7 years they had been imposing prison sentences. When my bag of shopping broke, I thought I had picked it all up, but it was just my luck that a policeman found the one cybergrape I had missed. So now I was being offered a choice of pun...
Please note that both characters in the article are at least 20 years of age. * "Dang it!" I remark as once again I can't seem to get my Java code to compile. I am feeling frustrated. For the same two hours I have been looking at the same piece of code. I put the computer down when I hear a thunderous noise in the distance. I know that rumbling. It's y...
"Happy Valentine's Day Jack," I cooed as I rolled out of bed, "Time to rise and shine!" Jack, my 5 year old basset hound, lifted his head, yawned at me, without opening his eyes, and laid his head back down on my pillow. I reached over to grab a treat to bribe him out of bed with, as I pulled my dark blonde hair out of its night time ponytail. I shook my ha...
The weather was finally warming, and despite being more of a cool weather person, I was enjoying the skin-tingling kiss of the sun on my arms and face. I had been for the past couple of weeks, taking my workouts more in the afternoon sun than in the morning sunrise. I was no olive blessed goddess, but my swallowed skin had become a little more like toasted b...
It was not as easy as she was hoping. They were just completing the first orbit and nearly ninety minutes after lift off, Merpati was feeling as if she were running a race for her life. Swallowing repeatedly, she willed herself to calm down. “Dionysus…MEDCOM,” Traynor’s voice continued in a trained near-monotone NASA was famous for. “Merpati, your pulse is...
Makena grew up with a single parent, lacking half the parental love has toughened her up. However, no part of her life experiences ever made her ready to face a knife at 17 years of age. Despair wrecked the mind of this bold little girl. She stopped believing in miracles, she never bought into the idea of heroic knights as a child, but just this once she ho...