I stopped by Peets Coffee for a quick iced latte and you know who I saw sitting there all how-dyo-do friendly like with each other, just sitting there together at a little table having a totally civil conversation ( Read more... )

I don't know who made the breakthrough on strong artificial intelligence ( Read more... )

Jake wanted to eat lunch on the West Highway Promenade again - because, he said, it was such a nice day. But I knew he just likes being a dick to the lifeless that are always milling around the brain-counter on 3rd. It was lunchtime for them, too ( Read more... )

We were looking at houses. This one seemed just about right - good size, nice yard, nearby shopping - and we were starting to talk price when C looked out the window. "Is that... a zombie?" She pointed: a shambling form had emerged onto the street from a yard on the other side, draped in torn clothes, twitching and grunting in an all-too-familiar ( Read more... )

It occurs to me, suddenly, that the proliferation of "zombie lurch" flash mobs & group events as a light-hearted, acceptable social phenomenon - one that, when you see it, you call your friends about it for a laugh and then walk into the midst of to take some pictures for your LJ or Flickr account or Tumblr or whatever - is a dangerous, dangerous ( Read more... )

The ramshackle huts along the tropical beach might be scenic under the right conditions, but something was direly wrong. Bodies, structural damage, small fires still burning. Smell in the air, not just smoke or decay or cordite but something else, something like ozone. Hand gestures to my team: fan left, you fan right, pairs and threes only no ( Read more... )

She noticed that it was gradual at first: Pushed into a corner in restaurants, then out of restaurants entirely. Out of public buildings, frozen out of the daily discourse of society. Finally, kicked out of bars even, out onto the street, into the cold to stare at her friends in bewilderment. Then the change accelerated, came for her in the ( Read more... )

At first the zombie infection problem seemed like the worst thing in the world, until we realized that instead of blowing their heads off, we should capture them, stuff their unused abdominal cavities with candy and loose change, pull out their teeth and fingernails, and turn them loose again ( Read more... )

She won't go back. She can't return and submit to his monstrous desires. The things he does ( Read more... )

Weekly, since the inception of statistics:


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