The Ground Shifts
Parker hadn’t shown up to work and I was sitting there, staring at his empty chair. It was July 8th, and I had known where he was, the...
May 18, 2024
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Space Saver, part III
THE SPELLBINDING CONCLUSION! *wild applause....from myself, which I'll admit is weird* Here are links to part I and part II. In the hour...
Nov 16, 2022
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Space Saver, Part II
Here's part two! And here's part one, in case you need a link. I changed the title. Titles are hard. The sendoff Thursday morning was...
Oct 17, 2022
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Space Saver, Part I
What I ought to say is that the best part was the honor of being chosen to assist our brave astronauts and travel to space, but if I’m...
Sep 17, 2022
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Shortchanged
In honor of the master, Isaac Asimov. It used to be a saying across most of the galaxy that if you were ever too poor to tip your waiter...
Jul 16, 2022
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Unclean
When I put on the suit in the morning, I think about going home. When I seal the black, weighted boots onto my legs, I imagine my...
Mar 21, 2022
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Recycle your loved ones, please
“Francis Snyder isn’t producing oxygen, Dack.” A thin man with a few wisps of strawberry blond hair on his head stood just in the...
Feb 21, 2017
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Burnt Consequence
Every time, he resisted. But it was like an unbearable itch, burning into him, a need to know that singed his nostrils with smoke. They...
Oct 10, 2016
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No Raisins (or, The Day The Raisins Dried Up)
Milk Eggs Flour Oatmeal Raisins Edith scanned her shopping list and pushed her buggy down aisle five, under the sign that said “Canned...
Jul 20, 2016
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When The Rain Came
At 2:08 today, water fell out of the sky. My grandma said it was the end of the world; probably aliens dropping poison on us. She said...
Jul 6, 2016
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Rat Catcher
Pretty much nobody gets their first job before they’re eighteen and they sure don’t get one with the rat-catcher, that’s for sure. But I...
Jun 22, 2016
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