some time later

‘You’re acting like a child.’
‘I never took any lessons.’
‘My, then you must be a natural.’
‘Thank you. I have to admit that I am having trouble remembering your name.’
‘That is because we erased it from your mind. We are not letting your reality survive.’
‘No? And how do you intend to prevent it surviving? Isn’t reality a [...]

the scheme of things

The first Brewlat, the original, the one from the prime timeline, the one from which all others branched off (for they had proved that theory to within an inch of its life) had to build a dimension jumper to travel to wherever his doppelganger had come from and prevent him from building a dimension jumper. [...]

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 [...]

to fuck with

To fuck with someone … to always fuck with someone – that was the psychology. It was the only way that he knew how to get attention. Getting attention meant that he was occupied and that staved off the boredom. He was not a person that was blessed with ideas ever. Attention and the action [...]

Making A Difference

When you have sold all the weapons you can possibly sell and everyone that the guns were to be used on is dead; when all the places you wanted to conquer and control are under your thumb then you have to look farther afield. You have to create situations – create a market. If you [...]

form at art

His listening habits had changed a lot since he had first started listening to music and he supposed that was only natural considering how the formats had changed. The change in the media that things was presented with was necessarily going to have to impact upon the way you consumed the product, after all it [...]

something new

Gluteus maximus wasn’t a Roman emperor. Medulla oblongata wasn’t his wife. Latin is the favourite chance card of the lazy — they think it grants them some kind of day pass into the club intelligentsia. Anyone can parrot that bullshit for a little while but push past the superficiality of any act and you have [...]

Closed System

‘Think of it as seed money; use it to set up your software development business.’
‘Right, so let me get this straight, you’re one of the big companies as far as security software goes and you’re paying me to create rogue programs that may outsmart your programs?’
‘Yep. It keeps big business ticking over if there is [...]

Universally Acknowledged

The Temporal Relocation Officer had told her that she should have absolutely no problem with finding herself a new job, that her name would surely give her some cache. He had said he understood that it was a forced relocation and not something she had been seeking to do, but due to the stress fracture [...]

Grit: Grass 1

The worst thing you could ever be was a grass. Grit had known more than one person who had been turned by the promise of immunity or money – it never paid enough and they were never safe enough. The police hated grasses as much as the criminals did.
Grit kept his operation streamlined but no [...]