The sirens sounded, she blinked, and bluetime started. "Oh, no," she groaned. Usually there was enough warning to get to her reality shelter, but this time she was caught out in the street. not the actual street, which would be instant death since there were still drivers who hadn't made it home, but the sidewalk beside what had been a candy shop ( Read more... )

The elephants were pink, that day. She had to explain to her son why the signs saying that detox was free were funny, but that's why you went to the artzoo. You went because it made you explain things and discuss things that otherwise might not come up. He didn't ask why the ostrich had a balloon tutu, which is just as well, since she had no idea ( Read more... )

It was the shift in the color that warned him. at first, before all this had happened, odds were that he would have thought it was some sort of neat visual effect that the gallery was using to help their art display, but the last week had turned him into a man who spotted the slightest incongruity and did not trust it. He dropped the glass of ( Read more... )