Adam, still unmarried at the age of 25, is assigned a droid to assist with household chores and... other womanly duties. He does not appreciate the intrusion into his quiet life. Until he realizes all that “Oriella” can do for him. Can he control his urges? Will she be able to resist? Will they get caught? “Fun, thought-provoking, captivating… Everything that makes your writing so unique.”
The One button and the Zero button, the buttons that get pushed all the time, stopped working on Waldo’s microwave. The dead buttons bothered Waldo. Because of his piano keyboard. Most songs get played near middle C using maybe 52 keys. Waldo found that all those keys that never got used open up a new universe of music. Before Waldo was thru, even the god, herself, stopped weaving the tapestry of fate for a moment while she tapped what passed for a foot to a music never played before.
A Story in the Shiny-verse Universe
This was my first story about the Shiny Ladies. The disc that held it, was corrupted and I could not find my hard copy. I found it only two weeks ago. I have updated and changed it from its original form to fit the Shiny-verse. It is a sequel to the original story, as you may have guessed. Taking place 237 years after "The Shiny Ladies" ends.
A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Senna inherited two things from her mother: a ship that runs on spite and a stat screen she's spent fourteen years ignoring. The *Null Margin* is still flying. The Integration overlay is still there. Senna has made peace with exactly one of those facts. When a Flux Storm pins her at a frontier station with a failing navigation array and the only fix is an EVA into conditions her stats say she shouldn't survive. She goes anyway. The system, for once, has something to say about that.
A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Five operators extract a neural-suppressed Vethari from a corporate station. When the route collapses, Dex holds a junction alone while the team transits through occupied sections with the asset. The system tracks every hit, every point of stamina, every second. Frame 34 advances to 35—not because he spent points, but because the system recognized what holding that line cost. Resonance: 74 to 76. The team comes out together.