Our family could jump. Not your every-day basketball player jump, but start in Indianapolis and end up in Jakarta. The government found out about us. They tried to take us. It didn't quite work the way they thought...
put yourself in the place of a man given the keys for an account worth over a billion dollars. ethics or greed? libertine or responsibility? A surprise finish. Hopefully, edited version to come soon.
When I get drunk I get belligerent. A belligerent drunk inventor. Add a little super-science, a little dilithium and stir furiously. Then stand back. It's a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde retelling. There's a little Star Trek universe crossover
So many bad things happened to Cliff as he grew into his retirement. His final disappointment in his government brought the pigs to the feed bucket one last time.
I found a hungry slip of a girl hanging about the docks. I fell for her and she became my adopted daughter. When she left she took most of my heart with her.
In the fairly near future a grad student stumbles on a very high-tech nanite suit and steals it out from under the noses of its military developers. Let's see what wise-ass grad student and a mobile AI that failed its loyalty test can get into.
A child develops telekinesis. Many greedy folk want a part of the payoff. The boy is quite mulish, saying 'not only no, but hell no!' Things spiral out of control from there.