Gaslight
Her breathing grew heavy. They had chased the rat into a corner. Mnemos had just fallen down a hole that RNG had opened up under her like a trapdoor. Bringing out her great big pigeon wings to slow her fall, she retracted them after having reached...
Indebted SFW omnibus edition; parts 1-5 of 10
Muscle mike was an atheist. he believed in himself more then any deity, so probably just to himself. “i have a crazy idea. maybe one of us report the plans to management and have them handle it", i replied. “would that not get category v angrier?"
Autopilot
'If work is so good for you, why don't the rich do more of it?' "Who said that?" "Some famous wolf writer I think," Fran's best friend had replied. "The same one who wrote AWOO." "I think that's AROO in fact," the jackal's roommate had chimed...
And I Must Scream
"You go to hell for the company, and to heaven for the peace and quiet." "Sometimes it's more gradual than people talk about," Fran's roommate had tried to explain. "Like, on TV you'll see oh, this person's reacting to this specific crisis, she's...
A Thousand Needles
“You're as cold as ice..." (Cold As Ice, Foreigner) “I could give you some of mine, if you want." Fran's best friend had had a bad history with meds messing her up worse than she'd started out as, and she didn't trust them or the therapists who'd...
The Hand You're Dealt
"Forgetting someone is killing them twice." Fran had kept having a harder and harder time dealing with her best friend's coma alone, while her roommate had kept having a harder and harder time dealing with living in a graveyard full of dead...
The Hand That Feeds You
"Darling when the morning comes And I see the morning sun I wanna be the one with you..." (Grover Washington Jr, Just The Two Of Us) "Do you think..." It'd been hard for them to talk about, but they hadn't had anyone else to talk to. "Do you...
The Spirit of the Law
"We are spirits in a material world." (The Police, Ghost In The Machine) "She was hooked up to one of those machines, you know?" Fran had nodded. "Hardest thing I ever had to do," her best friend had shaken her head. "Well, they're battle...
Dead To Me
"Got a little soul The world is a cold, cold place to be Want a little warmth But who's going to save a little warmth for me...?" (Vampire Weekend, Unbelievers) "Hey, Fran...?" Fran's best friend's voice had sounded shaky on the other end of the...
Kaiju ga Gotoku 9.5 - End of the Year
"and you think an atheist would be accepted?" "if you worked at it, and showed your dedication not to sarasvati, but to the city of kaijurocho, then yes. i'll smooth it over with the gods."
Tears In Rain
'If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll spend its whole life believing it's stupid.' (Albert Einstein) "Ugh, really?" It'd already taken Fran half an hour to get to the bridge. It'd been raining that day, fittingly, she...
27 Ounces: A Story of Eight And One Half Ponies
Actually, i'm pretty much an atheist, if that helps."