Jacks Tail: Chapter-13 Goofing Off
Chapter 13: Goofing Off Next thing I know, I'm being gently shaken awake by a movement on the bed. In the darkness of early morning I try to find the cause as I let out a yawn. Someone flips the lights on: I let out an involuntary yip and put my hands...
After the Bombs
"Mommy, what was life like before the bombs?" "Don't ask such things, sweetie. It isn't nice to think about that." "But I want to know. What was it like?" "Eat your peas, sweetie." "I don't like peas. I like pudding. I want pudding." "Only good...
Paradigm Shift 2: Ignition
I watched intently as the thick trap door swung open slowly. It finally came to rest at a 90 degree angle, LED lights illuminating the ladder well down into whatever chambers lay beneath. I wondered how Gemm had electric lighting, but I also wondered...
Drone Costume
#2 of space station dystopia not halloween, but a similar festival in this culture. young hrodi makes a costume for the festival and his parents pretend to mistake him for the real thing.
Family Drone
#3 of space station dystopia when i read the theme for blfc this year, i was immediately reminded of my sketch for this story, which i filled in here.
Jack's Tail: Chapter-11 Escape
Chapter 11: Escape The next morning I've got another language lesson like everyday I've been here. Time constraints limit the lesson to a couple more words before we have to get ready for 'work', also like every day I have been here. I put on my...
Chapter 11
After the cannons are formed from the biometal, they go towards the main staging area, to meet with the rest of the group, who are also geared up and ready. All of them, except sera, appear to be present. Liz is also there, with a plasma cannon,...
The Pound-Prologue
**News Report-James C. Callahan reporting, Date: 2019.10.05** **Callahan:**"James Callahan, here with Dr. Aaron Jefferson. We seem to have found a way to adapt to the climate change and thanks to Dr. Jefferson here, we can all rest peacefully...
Jacks-Tail Formally Bio-Morph-One) As of 4-20-2015
I am not in the best of moods as I ride the over used and a little unmaintained elevator to the floor I live on. The metal walls are adorned with scratched on and sprayed on graffiti and any wood trim that remains on the walls are similarly...
Jack's Tail: Chapter-1 It is who you know
Chapter 1: It is who you know. The graffiti laden walls of the building's elevator stare back at me as I ride it to the floor I live on with my mother. They only deepen my sour mood. I had put such high hopes on that interview only for it to...
Jacks Tail: Chapter-12 Safe-House
Chapter 12: Safe House I shift uncomfortably in my seat; I've been stuffed in the back of the car with Twelve and two of Patrick's friends. My human neighbor apologizes: "Sorry, this car was made before Bio-morphs. The seats aren't made with...
Sweets in the Grey
The city itself felt like it had been purposefully modeled after an orwellian dystopia; with its thick blanket of smog that blocked the sun from entrance, the smell of industry or gasoline or some other chemical wafting down every street and into the nose,