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  1. The Night I Escaped From The Zoo: 5 / 5

    There was no sign of the rowboat in the river. No trace of the bathtub in the sky. I was back in my town, back in the normal world. Everything was right again, except that I was someone else, and had a month to learn a new language and a new sport. Perfec ...

    - 2020/10/28 - 1:32pm - 21 comments

  2. Sarah’s Dream: Chapter 5

    samquick General Audience (pg) Novel Chapter Science Fiction Body, Mind or Soul Exchange Posted by author(s) The coins were indeed all gone when I returned to bed for the next night. Oh well. I tried an idea I’d thought of during the day. What if I dreamw ...

    - 2024/05/18 - 8:40am - 1 comment

  3. When Life Hands You Uranus: 7 / 9

    “Uhh, okay,” Linnea agreed, not without grave misgivings. She felt that she’d already opened Pandora’s Box. Now, she found that the box was full of smaller boxes, all of them belonging to Pandora, and each one more portentious and potentially dangerous th ...

    - 2020/11/05 - 12:16pm - 8 comments

  4. When Life Hands You Uranus: 8 / 9

    The night before the teleport cycle, they switched back. Linnea found it a bit disorienting, being back in her own body again. She saw what Darlene meant by a mess of weird sensations. She caught herself wondering whether living in a synth body was the be ...

    - 2020/11/06 - 1:53pm - 18 comments

  5. Charlotte Had A Boyfriend: 1

      "Hitchhiking? No. Me, hitchhiking? Where? Like, out here, in the desert?" "Yeah, maybe a dozen miles west of here." I tried to put it together, but the pieces didn't fit. "Hitchhiking... dressed like this? Barefoot? With an ...

    - 2024/06/05 - 5:32pm - 4 comments

  6. Charlotte Had A Boyfriend: 2

      "What if my memories don't come back? What if I forget even more?" I didn't mean to panic; I didn't want to panic... and yet... panic was there, waiting to pounce, ready to devour me.   ...

    - 2024/05/29 - 9:49am - 9 comments

  7. Charlotte Had A Boyfriend: 3

      "The point is..." Jen insisted, turning a slight shade of red, "the point is, that now we — you — don't know anything. Everything is potential, right? The sky is the limit." "That's only the upper limit," I counte ...

    - 2024/06/04 - 5:54pm - 10 comments

  8. Charlotte Had A Boyfriend: 4

      At long last she said, "I hope you can enjoy this time you have: to sit, to think, to watch." "I am," I replied. "I do. A little. Some. When I'm not afraid."   ...

    - 2024/06/10 - 11:56am - 14 comments

  9. Charlotte Had A Boyfriend: 5

      "Charlotte didn't say much, but she did ask me why my name is Mason." "What kind of stupid question is that?" Carly began, her face registering annoyance, puzzlement, and curiosity all at once. "That's — uh — actually ...

    - 2024/06/14 - 8:49am - 4 comments

  10. Sarah’s Dream: Chapter 10

    samquick General Audience (pg) Novel Chapter Science Fiction Body, Mind or Soul Exchange Posted by author(s) The work on the papers and other ideas had brought me near the end of my freshman year, and that was the time to plan next year’s classes and, ide ...

    - 2024/06/15 - 8:09am

  11. Sarah’s Dream: Chapter 9

    samquick General Audience (pg) Novel Chapter Science Fiction Body, Mind or Soul Exchange Posted by author(s) I was a freshman in college when I heard the news on TV that Hiroshi had died. They called him video game entrepreneur Hiroshi Yamamoto, who clear ...

    - 2024/06/15 - 11:49am - 2 comments

  12. When Life Hands You Uranus: 9 / 9

    Instinctively, she lay on the floor and put her hands over her heart. She tried to calm herself, but waves of fear kept washing over her. Everything is wrong, she told herself. I’m alone at the butt-end of the universe, and I don’t know what to do. ...

    - 2024/06/16 - 8:33am - 18 comments

  13. Charlotte Had A Boyfriend: 6

      "I'm sorry," I told him, "but I'd prefer to keep this to myself." "Why?" "Because you — and the pair of cops who just left — laughed when I told you my name. None of you call me by my name. Not Perry, not Mas ...

    - 2024/06/16 - 5:47pm

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