Laurie is invited to a school reunion, driving five hours to his childhood village to meet people he has not seen for forty years. A homage to Laurie Lee's eponymous book, where the real Slad becomes a fictitious Crawedon. When life is ruptured and swings in a new direction, can one ever go back?
Jack Winfield finds a strange artifact after an earthquake, and it changes his life in so many ways. An artificial intelligence construct gives Jack unexpected power, but does it have an ulterior motive? What price will Jack have to pay for his new abilities? This is a new version of the original story, with over 170 illustrations.
A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Four years ago, Kes Marrow's only flagged stat moved for half a second — long enough to mark him, not long enough to mean anything. The Integration has been waiting on him ever since: Reassess upon measurable engagement. Tonight he's slipping past the colony fence with his two best friends, hiking three klicks to a Flux rift that pulses teal in the dark. He's spent four years calling it a defect. He has no idea what's actually waiting for him in that light. He's done waiting to find out.
A special Vault was constructed to help humanity survive the end of the world, but the citizenry of Vault 615 discover there is much more to discover than meets the eye.
Kylie McKenzie is the hottest girl in school. Any time someone gets their hands on something -- a time-stopping watch, a hypnotic chime, a genie in a ring -- they *always* use it to take advantage of her.
In Vivianne Jordan's restaurant, the staff works naked. Her sons sleep in cages. When a shadow consortium offers to buy her system and build a city of slaves, the head cook must burn her kingdom down—or watch it become a nightmare.
This is a story I did for myself with AI, and the result was decent, so I thought I'd share. In "Back to the Future" everything works out fine for the McFly clan. Better than fine, in fact - things work out swimmingly. Still, there are plenty of dark themes along the way, which as a PG Hollywood movie, it has to brush over fairly lightly. And since I have a dirty mind, I wondered: what if things had gone wrong for the McFlys, in the worst, most twisted, and darkly-erotically way possible...?
After his fief is put to the torch, a lowly serf named Rian is taken captive by Orcs. The women cart him back to their stronghold and put him to work cooking, cleaning, and serving them. Little do they know, his new situation is a marked improvement. For the first time, he has a soft bed, plentiful food, and a warm hearth. Will his hosts ever find out that he's only pretending to lament his new role?