Spare Parts and Analog Hearts
Metal shelves brimming with various spare parts, a bookcase filled with repair manuals and technical drawings, the floor was littered with oil stains and discarded papers.
A Spare in the Trunk: Part XIV
#14 of a spare in the trunk jack remembers the packages in the car. lys gets something she's been wanting. life continues to change. the needle tapped up and down in a rhythm that jack remembered from his childhood.
A Spare in the Trunk: Coffee Break
Jack zipped up his coat around his sweater. The gray, wet world outside was a far cry from the sunny day he’d missed yesterday. If he were going to call in sick he should have done it then. The tiniest knife cut into his toe with each step he took. An...
A Spare in the Trunk: Part XVII
Running water and clattering dishes echoed from the kitchen, broken up by the occasional laugh. Cheap wooden half-walls boxed in the booths, but gave no real privacy. Safe and conservative tans wallpaper accented the equally boring brown seats. The...
A Spare in the Trunk: Part XIX
“elders, spare my horns." he glared. “hey, rodil may not be a man, a human man, but he's strong. can lift all kinds of things she can't anymore, just have trouble with getting to high places is all. rodil feels good about it, nice to help someone.
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...
A Spare in the Trunk: Part XVIII
“Yeah, mmmhmm.” “Yeah.” “I’m looking forward to it.” Jack nodded to himself and took a sip from his coffee with his free hand, shuffling side to side waiting for his turn to talk. The living room glowed a pleasant shade of gold making him forget how...
A Spare in the Trunk: Part XX
Jack awoke from black and white dreams of wandering down dimly lit corridors with the uneasy sense that something was chasing him the whole time. Served him right, he’d stayed up well past his bedtime watching corny old horror movies...
A Spare in the Trunk: Cold Realization
Jack went into the living room and the familiar scene played out before him. Lys busy at the computer. Sometimes playing, other times she was studying how to use the machine better or watching some streamer plying their trade. Something about the look...
Spare Change
**spare change** terry was awakened from a sound sleep by the sound of hooves on the floor and snorting in the next room; a moment later, the floors shook as a stampede commenced. "oh no!," bemoaned terry, "the buffalo are at it again!"
A Spare in the Trunk: Sick Day
Jack stepped out of the bathroom with a billowing cloud of steam following him. Another work day, another morning shower. The smell of sports stick gave him pause, he should have smelt breakfast by now. He got his answer to the lack of fresh coffee and...
Spare him
Just spare him," obi wan said with sadness in his voice.