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. [...]

End Transmission

Some stories are just too violent and horrible to be told; that was how he felt. But they came to him unbidden and if he didn’t put them down on paper and get them out of him he knew that they were going to poison him – that they would pool like toxic waste in [...]

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 [...]

forge netting 1: dismantling history

He stuck that long tongue of a needle into the vein which had jumped to the surface almost immediately that he had tied off his arm. Memory rejig commence – those single function nanites hardwired with his internal map, knowing exactly which site in his brain to aim for, going straight for the right string [...]

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 [...]