One could've happened by accident. When the first one appeared, I was eating cereal. His machine had plowed across half the basement and stopped against the wall, nested in the remains of the treadmill and the dryer and most of the plumbing. It looked like a submarine and it was way too big to have gotten in by the door, even in parts. Standing in the middle of the floor, the pile of twisted metal behind him and me at the top of the stairs in boxers and wrinkled socks, pointing a milky spoon at him I guess in that situation it's hard to come up with a good lie, and he just admitted he was a time traveler. His name is Tim.
Two
As if crashing on this stupid planet wasn't enough. Pad paced the cell, glaring through the one transparent wall at the creatures on the other side. As if having to survive for three months on this stupid planet wasn't enough. I just had to get myself caught by the Space Invaders from the Black Lagoon. They probably think I'm the local wildlife. A mechanical arm came out of one wall, scanned up and down his body, and retracted.
I'm not edible, I promise you. I've got sticky bones, you'll choke. The two aliens poked at
I am the wind off the mountain,
I am the breeze from the sea,
I am the roaring of storms in the night,
I am the whisper of air through the trees.
I am the zephyrs that play in the meadows,
I am the gusts that sweep through the sky,
Invisible, lazy, capricious, and forceful,
Gentle and restless and soaring am I
I wasn't the first to be twinned, of course.
They did it first with a woman called Adrienne Deuxfois, in France. There were all kinds of protests, and the government wanted to make it illegal, but before long CEOs had begun using twin bodies to work and vacation at the same time, and sports champions had seized the opportunity to train with an exact equal. But it was when the military realized they could double the number of warm bodies under their command without recruiting a single soul that governmental opposition melted away overnight. By the time I could afford it, the process was hardly even controversial anymore.
That didn't make it
I stagger a little on the way up the front steps, catching myself against the rail where I stay for a moment, clinging like a seahorse to a piece of kelp. Fighting against the currents of nausea that threaten to sweep me away. The weak light from the newly risen sun is blinding me but I can't work up the strength to move. That last drink was one too many. Actually, the last couple were probably one too many.
On that thought, I lose control and double over, vomiting into the bushes that line the porch. Olives. I don't remember there being olives. I don't even like olives.
Gathering my strength, I stumble up the rest of the steps into the mer
The cabinets in my house are varnished a friendly golden brown, scarred and worn along the bottom edges by the years of my childhood. In the kitchen, they hold the usual dishes, tea, cereal boxes and spices. Another in the hall outside my bedroom door keeps bed sheets, light bulbs, and soap. The knobs are round glass, filled with seeds of different types corn, beans, barley, rice, and something green that I have never been able to identify. My mother found them in a thrift shop and was delighted with the effect, "attractive yet tacky". My younger brothers have a habit of leaving the doors open, a by-product of the short attention s
I cannot lose my composure.
I was never composed.
I am a series of notes played at random on a pipe,
Each unplanned and forgotten once they've passed
I am a melody heard over a garden wall at dusk
I am familiar and eerie and unformed
By chance alone do I exist
And when I am gone I leave behind
Soft notes echoing in the darkening air
Theyve taken me off the project, darling. I expected it, of course. Counted on it. Its standard procedure, when an agents loved one goes missing, to take them off all cases, cut off all information. You never know who may be trying to blackmail them.
My team will be making the raid soon, darling, though theyve probably moved the date without telling me. I wont be with them when they discover that instead of the contraband, theres an ambush waiting for them. Imagine their surprise. And the shock, later on, when a carelessly covered trail reveals it was Jerry who betrayed them. Its going to be
One could've happened by accident. When the first one appeared, I was eating cereal. His machine had plowed across half the basement and stopped against the wall, nested in the remains of the treadmill and the dryer and most of the plumbing. It looked like a submarine and it was way too big to have gotten in by the door, even in parts. Standing in the middle of the floor, the pile of twisted metal behind him and me at the top of the stairs in boxers and wrinkled socks, pointing a milky spoon at him I guess in that situation it's hard to come up with a good lie, and he just admitted he was a time traveler. His name is Tim.
Two
As if crashing on this stupid planet wasn't enough. Pad paced the cell, glaring through the one transparent wall at the creatures on the other side. As if having to survive for three months on this stupid planet wasn't enough. I just had to get myself caught by the Space Invaders from the Black Lagoon. They probably think I'm the local wildlife. A mechanical arm came out of one wall, scanned up and down his body, and retracted.
I'm not edible, I promise you. I've got sticky bones, you'll choke. The two aliens poked at
I am the wind off the mountain,
I am the breeze from the sea,
I am the roaring of storms in the night,
I am the whisper of air through the trees.
I am the zephyrs that play in the meadows,
I am the gusts that sweep through the sky,
Invisible, lazy, capricious, and forceful,
Gentle and restless and soaring am I
I wasn't the first to be twinned, of course.
They did it first with a woman called Adrienne Deuxfois, in France. There were all kinds of protests, and the government wanted to make it illegal, but before long CEOs had begun using twin bodies to work and vacation at the same time, and sports champions had seized the opportunity to train with an exact equal. But it was when the military realized they could double the number of warm bodies under their command without recruiting a single soul that governmental opposition melted away overnight. By the time I could afford it, the process was hardly even controversial anymore.
That didn't make it
I stagger a little on the way up the front steps, catching myself against the rail where I stay for a moment, clinging like a seahorse to a piece of kelp. Fighting against the currents of nausea that threaten to sweep me away. The weak light from the newly risen sun is blinding me but I can't work up the strength to move. That last drink was one too many. Actually, the last couple were probably one too many.
On that thought, I lose control and double over, vomiting into the bushes that line the porch. Olives. I don't remember there being olives. I don't even like olives.
Gathering my strength, I stumble up the rest of the steps into the mer
The cabinets in my house are varnished a friendly golden brown, scarred and worn along the bottom edges by the years of my childhood. In the kitchen, they hold the usual dishes, tea, cereal boxes and spices. Another in the hall outside my bedroom door keeps bed sheets, light bulbs, and soap. The knobs are round glass, filled with seeds of different types corn, beans, barley, rice, and something green that I have never been able to identify. My mother found them in a thrift shop and was delighted with the effect, "attractive yet tacky". My younger brothers have a habit of leaving the doors open, a by-product of the short attention s
I cannot lose my composure.
I was never composed.
I am a series of notes played at random on a pipe,
Each unplanned and forgotten once they've passed
I am a melody heard over a garden wall at dusk
I am familiar and eerie and unformed
By chance alone do I exist
And when I am gone I leave behind
Soft notes echoing in the darkening air
Theyve taken me off the project, darling. I expected it, of course. Counted on it. Its standard procedure, when an agents loved one goes missing, to take them off all cases, cut off all information. You never know who may be trying to blackmail them.
My team will be making the raid soon, darling, though theyve probably moved the date without telling me. I wont be with them when they discover that instead of the contraband, theres an ambush waiting for them. Imagine their surprise. And the shock, later on, when a carelessly covered trail reveals it was Jerry who betrayed them. Its going to be
I know Ill never do everything I want to before I can learn all the languages, and see all the places, and meet all the people, do everything I want to do, Im going to die. Pfft, gone forever. She pulled her hand out of the water and flicked her fingers, watching the drops spin away and fall like the moments of her life that were leaving her even as we spoke.
But
And I know its selfish. I know what conversion has done, for us, for the environment. She lay back in the grass, gazing at the branches of the tree above us. Her feet splashed in the stream, and I pulled my leg
I know Ill never do everything I want to before I can learn all the languages, and see all the places, and meet all the people, do everything I want to do, Im going to die. Pfft, gone forever. She pulled her hand out of the water and flicked her fingers, watching the drops spin away and fall like the moments of her life that were leaving her even as we spoke.
But
And I know its selfish. I know what conversion has done, for us, for the environment. She lay back in the grass, gazing at the branches of the tree above us. Her feet splashed in the stream, and I pulled my leg
Today is really strange. Nobody's really sure how to behave the day after someone shows up with a gun and kills himself in the library. We're sort of all just acting normally... and it feels creepy. It's like a tragedy that somehow didn't quite touch us, but it's still there.
Maybe I passed Colton every day on the sidewalk. I wouldn't have noticed.
And why is it always AK-47's?
--Confused UT Student