Stories


When the Man Schemes

Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking rice in Charleston, S.C. Best of all I like to hear him tell of his earlier days when he sold liniments and cough cures on street corners, living hand to mouth, heart to heart with the people, [...]

The Golden Graft

It was almost the same with James Magedevitch Tiptree. He worked from morning till night, was always in a hurry, was irritable, and flew into rages, but all of this was in a sort of spellbound dream. It seemed as though there were two men in him: one was the real Jeff Peters, who was [...]

Bitten by the Golden Bant

Love in discovered in Yalta IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Andy Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney’s pavilion, he [...]

Transmissions from Chumley

entry 53-t Chumley sat munching on a kwakitl, savoring its earthly flavors. It was a rare delicacy on borbscht. unfortunatly, though, it wasnt quite rare enough. chumley moaned inwardly, conjuring visions of bovine terraform puddings and sweets. kwakitl was the best available on borbscht, but it was decidely lacking. it tasted like exile. Movement through [...]

The Minority Resort

not the minority report, its the minority resort! Deckard wanted to dream of sheep, but the electric shocks had turned him to an android. He obyed commands, the commands of the Eye in the SKy. They commanded him daily to run through the maze. He sensed, despite the fuzzy feelings, that if he ever solved [...]

Private Me-Mont

its primed for the movie and ready to shoot! Private Me-Mont > (excerpted from Chapter II) by: Edward and Mariana Calhoun The floating bag, rising amongst the towers of the golden city. The tall skyscrapers shone a myriad of reflections in the sunlight. From his parents penthouse young Timmy watched the bag rising up. The [...]

Stevens Intelligent Auto Artificial AI Web Services

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The Opposite of Ratio Shadow

Earn your Technical Certification MCSE in Shadow Technology! Most of the time, the message was alone with itself. Like all messages, it had been sent from point A towards point B. It just so happened that points A and B lay on the exact opposite edges of a quickly expanding universe. Even traveling at an [...]

Mongol and Kanine

its a ruff, ruff world…. Mongol! Kanine! I called. My compatriots slunk behind me. They manage to disappear every time I enter into a crowded place, crowded to them meaning more than just me. But their presence went unnoticed once I had entered this small, dimly lit diner. It was one of those eateries on [...]

In the Arms of the Black Madonna

Icon Paranoia Yeah, all right so I was drinking a half empty beer someone had left unfinished on the table. I was running a little low on cash. But it didn’t really matter. Not in Prague, not in the salon of the Marquis de Sade. I sank back into the red velvet couch and nursed [...]