sci-fi
The epidermis of an android is the part of its body most similar to the humans it was built to emulate; it is also, not coincidentally, the part most frequently in congress with the outside world. Humanoid skin is the android’s armor of subjectivity. It is the quality which
fiction
Alive again. I reach out through machine amnii, vomiting up dark clouds that billow and stain my face. My palm strikes something that resists, then yields, then splits, and finally I tear myself out, dragging myself limb-over-limb across the scaly floor. The spent surgeonmites flop like dying fish beside my
fiction
3 BED, 2 BATH IN LITTLE RHODESIA, MARIE BYRD LAND- Ideal single-family home in charming new settlement in rapidly expanding frontier. Elegant plantation style design recalls heights of American greatness. Settlement amenities include shopping mall, sports stadium, temperature-insulated golf course, and round-the-clock monitoring from contracted PMC. New arable farmland rapidly
fiction
You’re feeling lonely so it’s time to go on a date. You open up an app and slap your intake bag a couple of times until the IV gets going again. The algorithm has already selected five potential matches for you. It wasn’t perfect at first (too