I was just finishing up cleaning the Head when Ted The Head came floating in. Coinkidink? The door opened and this…thing floated on in. It perused the bathroom, floating in to all the stalls one by one, stopped to admire itself in the mirror, then exited. As soon as it had left, the door […]

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“Oh man, this is good!” Dallas said, chowing down on his beef dip. “You say this isn’t real beef?” “Well technically it is, right down to the atomic level, but yes it is created from raw material and reassembled as beef” I said “And the beer?” he picked up his glass and had a sip […]

Read more "“Shoulda found a chubbier kid”"

  So we finally finished the most boring tour in the history of the universe, and ended up on the Bridge. The only respite during the Captains monologue was when we were in Engineering, and got to see where the mainframe was. ” Hey” I said to Alice “Thats you!” ” Tell me truthfully,” Alice […]

Read more "The Library"

By “pilot the ship in” he meant just hang out and let the library do all the work. The inside of his ship had no controls, only four recliners facing a blank wall. Dallas waved at the wall and it became transparent. We were gliding in to one of the vast chasms that crisscrossed the […]

Read more "The Librarian"

The librarian sat cross legged in front of me hands resting on her knees, smiling. I was trying hard to find something else to look at, but she was the only thing in the room other than my beer glass which was suddenly full again.  I took a nervous swig. “Do I make you uncomfortable?” […]

Read more "I’m a Frayed Knot"