Jack looks at the tubing around his arm ( Read more... )

It's funny, the relationship we have with luck, isn't it? Funny thing ( Read more... )

It's the curse of our generation, I guess, this difficulty in producing offspring. People are doing everything later and later. Marrying later, having children later. They focus on their careers first, and they crash a marriage or two before finding the one they actually want to raise a family with. These things take time and time has a funny way ( Read more... )

“Hey! Albert! Come check this out. It’s amazing ( Read more... )

It's not so much that I hear him, really; it's just that I'm suddenly aware that he's in the lab. Perhaps he's been here awhile and has decided to let me know it finally. But I do like to think (even vanity aside) that I'm not as clueless as I encourage everyone to think; the popular image of the oblivious scientific egghead is too useful a cover ( Read more... )

We sat there, scribbling, and crumpled pieces of paper piled up all around us. There had to be an answer, a solution. We were skilled engineers and trained mathematicians and brilliant scientists of all sorts. This couldn’t be the end. Surely the catastrophe wasn’t inevitable. We’d find a way to prevent it ( Read more... )

Plumbing Issues

Recent problems throughout Zone C were ultimately traced, after prolonged and expensive investigation, to a serious build-up of skeletal remains and incompletely broken down body parts. Not all materiel is suitable for disposal down sink and bathtub drains or toilets, and improper flushing of materiel into the complex's plumbing can ( Read more... )

I don't understand why I have to stay in the box all the time. "Why won't you let me out?" I finally ask. "I don't like it in here ( Read more... )

Officer, I need to report a crime.

Okay, sir, that's what I'm here for. What was the crime?

It was theft.

Theft. May I ask what was stolen?

( A dog. )

"You're saying it's in there? You actually contained it ( Read more... )