The three men were chained together as they shuffled up the steps to the gallows. Their ankles were bleeding from the mile they’d walked shackled. Magda imagined the metal would be cold against their skin with the gray winter sky glowering down ...
I’m sorry I’m late, I know you have to charge me for the full session. I had a thing that went long. Yeah, I guess an acting thing? I don’t know, it was weird. You don’t want to hear about my fucked up acting stuff. It was fuckin weird, though.
You know it’s a bad sign when the AI tells you they want to quit. “If they didn’t own my NeuriNetwork, Simone,” Babar says, “I’d be outta here so fast.” He leans over the hospital bed railing and connects probes to Jenny’s shaved head with his titanium hands ...
In a quiet street in downtown suburbia, a row of factories lines one side, orange tri-fold doors shuttered fast. The conjoined buildings are all made of identical beige bricks, their sawtooth roofs like a row of teeth. It’s inside one of the factories that I stand, surrounded by boxes, my hands encrusted with dirt ...
My breath clouds over the mic in the comms console. Environmental can no longer maintain a high enough temperature to prevent condensation. The panel is engineered to be hermetically sealed, but as the exterior shielding systems waver, the composite metals and plastics expand and contract minutely ...
