Sidewalk Chalk Heart

They’d expunged the murder from his permanent record because after long and careful consideration they had determined that the victim was of no real significance and that the resources his death had freed up may mean that in death he was actually able to contribute positively to society, something he had been unable, as far [...]

Engine Ear Part 1: Booting Up

He took out his eyes and cleaned them, it was a mechanical action taken over by sense memory. One of the few automated actions that his biological elements still had domain over – most of that had been handed over to subroutine and hardwiring. The future is elective surgery; it is not something foisted on [...]