Terry Willey and Carol Baker-Willey

“What in the hell was that?”  Dan had been repeating this phrase more often than he wanted to lately. Freddie was already moving to get dressed.  If she was going to die in space, it would be with her pants on, not floating about space for generations naked.  She dropped

Chantell had wheeled out a projection table, and it was now displaying an image of Dan’s internal plumbing.  Various readings included brainwaves and bio impulses.  It seemed to Dan there was too much red. “Interesting,” Chantell said.  “It looks almost like you’re still connected to the time field

The most highly visible and visited location in any commercial building is the restroom.  The restroom reflects the facility owner’s bottom line.  Haphazard designs and neglected spaces signify an organization disregards its clientele. Going to the amenity is as essential to life as breathing.  Where a person chooses to

Stowaways. Stowaways were outsiders hoping to live off the land.  Land that was the valued property of “Lifeinc” and therefore they were living off of “Lifeinc” (a licensed contractor for United Really the Best Guys Governments {formerly United Good Guys Governments}). “Hey, Abernathy.  Looks like the boat has a couple

It is a near universal truth that robots hate snow.  On every inhabited planet that has developed artificial life, robots hate snow—even on the planets that don’t have snow.  Two of the quickest ways to kill a mechanical creature is to get it very cold or very wet.

The first thing Dan noticed was William looked real.  Not the bust or painting real, but the blotchy skin, bad hair day kind of real that comes from spending most of the previous night in a tavern. The second thing he noticed was the distinct lack of the ubiquitous Elizabethan