Where The Dogs Echo Part 1

The whole place seemed plagued by some kind of weird Doppler effect — you could whisper in a lover’s ear and it might sound like you were half a room away; that was why he had come here by himself. He liked to work in silence anyway, and in a place like this precautions were [...]

Virago Part 1

She looked like a killer; well, if you had fantasies about scantily clad amazons with guns strapped all over them she looked like a killer. It was true that the outfit she was wearing was not in any way practical, but then that was the intention. The servants of The Sand had not had their [...]

Sigh For Punk Part 1

Codewords and slogans — it was what he lived for. His fingers slid across the keyboard as if in an anti-gravity ballet. He had been straight edge for the longest time and then he had spectacularly fallen off the wagon, doing pretty much everything that could be ingested into one’s body without killing you, and [...]

Ghosting Part 1

Covered from head to toe in gelatinous goop — this specimen had folded in through some crevasse in the universal mind that intersected with a viral universe where an apparently contradictory set of manifold consciousnesses nested within the form of one being. It had been hard to pin it down psychically and even harder to [...]