Off Limits
_"Time for bed, sweetie."_ _ Fran looked crestfallen. "Can't I just stay up until the next commercial?"_ _ Her mother grinned, endeared yet still reproachful. "You always say that." The days always seemed so short. Whenever they were at an end, all...
Die A Thousand Deaths
'Everyone has secret words that can save them. Everyone has secret words that can kill them.' (Unknown) "So they weren't slaves?" "Not technically," Fran's best friend had answered. "I'll be gosh-darned," the jackal had shaken her head....
Blood Runs Thicker Than Water
Some dressed as witches, others wolves, but there were a handful who had gone as movie icons like cyborgs and androids, and others were wearing ww2 and ww1 costumes from the allies side.
By A Thousand Cuts
"People get them without thinking." Fran and her roommate were watching her pets chasing each other around their living room. "They get them for their kids." "That's the thing!" she concurred. "They think of animals as lesser lifeforms than people for...
TransPlant
* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...
Let Them Eat Cake
Fran had made it a habit to always make sure that her pets' treats would be kept in a place where her pets couldn't reach them. It'd been a safety precaution, for their own good. One day, somehow, though, she'd made a mistake and left them somewhere...
Only In Dreams
Eli rolled off Mano, lying back in bed to grab and light a cigarette from the nightstand. "That was good," she said simply, drawing in and blowing out smoke as she spoke. The poet had always had a minimalistic streak to her. "I hope you liked that."...
Crosswinds
'Housewives should make $115,000 a year.' \*\*\* "'But there are no pixies!' the housewife protested. 'There's no such thing as pixies!'" Fran's mom had told her this story more times than she could remember when she'd been a child. "'It was...
Spaced Out
When Fran had been a kid, she'd often stare out the window aimlessly while her mom would drive. "Come in, Huston." Every new building and landscape would become a new playground in which to let her mind wander. "Houston, we lost you." She probably...
Conveyor Belt
"See Fran, you put the laundry in first, then you do the dishes while it's in the wash. It's more efficient that way!" \*\*\* "So you also use them to knit." Jackie had looked for the quantum translocator all over the Renegade ship, double-checking...
Spare Parts
"Waste not, want not." [FLICK!] "[-'told me to be careful so the people who take the recycling out of the bags don't cut their hands on them,' the actress on the talk show had said, 'and it just hit me right then - how many of us even think of the...
Manhunt: Inflator Style Season 1 (Complete)
If he wasn't a cyborg, as unnoticeable as it was, he would have merely been left with a hugely bloated belly that would have taken days to digest. in this instance, though, the sheer mass of it was being broken down into pure fat.