With lost marbles over mixed drinks, I stare at the face reflected in the oak bar beside my highball. It looks more real to me, somehow, than I feel ( Read more... )

It’s the hands and the eyes that give it away. They’re too quick, too exact. There’s a precision and surety there that ‘belie the tech’, as they say ( Read more... )

Twin pinhole cameras above a resonance cage above a set of tendons that vibrated enough to cause tiny sonic booms that formulated into sound. This machine made of biological products heralded a new era in the fight against disease. No longer would we have to fight against the terror of decay. No longer would we have to wait patiently while part ( Read more... )

Immortality, the cure for AIDS and the Big C, eternal youth. All one had to do was cease to be human ( Read more... )

He never got along with adults after the war. Only the children. I remember him needing to angle himself just a little bit to fit his wide shoulders through our front door. He was all grunts and one-word answers ( Read more... )

There’s a hole in the roof of my mouth that I can’t fix. A black putrescent liquid that hasn’t stopped for hours is dripping slowly onto my tongue. It tastes salty and smells a little like melting rubber. I’m still alive ( Read more... )