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...
Respawn (re-post, correct)
Respawn is a space noir with an ace trans protagonist about mental health, transhumanism, atheism, video games, anarcho-socialism, and polyamory.
Saved
'Who survived, anyone new, anyone else but you?' (Porter Robinson, Sad Machine) It was on their way back to Rakim's place on that night that they first heard the alarm. "Oh shit!" As their brisk walk turned into a frantic run, they got near...
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."...
This Machine
_'Someone once told me, there's a land of dreams, where our lives are never done... they go on, and on...'_ (Beads of Tears, Mermaid's Scar) "What do you see?" What a loaded question this always was, she thought. He was doing his best, she couldn't...
Surface
Mano wasn't fazed by eli's atheism. she'd lived in a religiously diverse environment for most of her life, mostly around muslims and sikhs, none of which her parents had taught her to think less of because of their beliefs.
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...
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...
Lucifer Economics
"Do angels fall in love, mom?" "Of course not." What silly questions children asked sometimes. "Aw, that's sad." She pouted. Her mother smiled. "Don't worry about them, sweetie. Angels are okay that way. They're used to it." "But why?" She furrowed...
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...