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I can't see! I can't fucking see! No! Don't crumble, stop! Christ, my tether is threadbare. I have to dig my feet in. I can't get my hand out of this biner. Oh shit! More wind! Armstrong! Armstrong! No! he's gone. I don't want to die! My tripod is s…

Her shaking fingers reach for the yellow lozenge. "No, not that one. Try the green one." Olivia does so and her eyes go wide, then close. She slumps. Smiling, toothy and benign, he steps over her twitching body, then shakes the bowl and proffers it …

You're not supposed to fall in love with an alien. The first time our lips touched I knew my spirit was being ripped down the centre, never to be whole again. I was forever doomed to live as a fragment of myself. Part of me here in this foreign land…

The fog in my brain had lifted, and all I saw was the rubble. My memories were there; my family, my friends, my comrades of the ill-fated revolution, the building blocks of my identity. via Pocket Deconstruction | 365tomorrows via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Ncpxo9

Author: David C. Nutt It was a beautiful VR construction. Potted dwarf apricot trees, soaring arches, piles of ornate cushions and silk settees, thick oriental carpets. It was, by all accounts, the most perfect steampunk zeppelin grand salon the Adj…

Kye rolled an unlit joint between her fingers. Miserably pining for a long-gone sky in the middle of Golden Gate Park, she couldn't relax with tomorrow looming on the horizon. Next morning, she'd wake up to the same monotonous life. The world turned…

I won't claim that this will be a complete and definitive history of the Mind Wipes because that would be impossible. But I am almost seventy years of age and I have been drained only once. via Pocket The Discarded | 365tomorrows via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2GD4mJb

I don't remember much, aside from hiding between the garage and the fence, and seeing my grandmother chopping heads off garden snakes with a hoe. via Pocket Cadence | 365tomorrows via Instapaper https://ift.tt/31bVtjd

"Poachers. Ugh, I hate poachers.", I muttered under my breath. Since way before I came along, my family's ranch has been beset by poachers. The property is way outside normal populated areas, and it takes a long time to get here. Nobody accidentally…

Wish I'd been braver. I knock. Nineteen. Kim opens her door. via Pocket

Ailean felt herself freezing in the liquid engulfing her. She could not see it, but she knew what it was. Although she did not feel any pain, she failed to understand why Ken would do this to her. He loved her more than any father loved his only chi…

Cooper switched the displays between them from opaque to semi-transparent and nevertheless managed to regard his subordinate with clear irritation. "It's Osiris, there's a serious problem with Osiris. via Pocket

He stares from the screen, hair in fashionable disarray, jowls freshly barbered, teeth so white they nearly shine, eyes like glass beads. "Good evening. I am appearing before you tonight to explain a few things that have been attracting media attent…

Important information for all Galpasorean invaders! It is imperative that you read this entire message before invading this human-occupied quadrant. via Pocket

"When you travel and everything cools and then chills and then bites into your very bones, when the sun sinks from view and doesn't come back up, and every step moves you back in time through undisturbed, unchanging, frozen eternity then, ah then, y…

Sam looked at the tickets and crumpled paper, already softening under the onslaught of summer heat and Mei's palms. "I never been to some classics concert before," he said, holding his fists tight against his sides. "You never sat in the nootropic s…

Dr. Humphrey Devereux is the famous polymath who won the first Nobel Prize in mathematics. We were best friends since we were mischievous little boys. He became a mathematical physicist and I'm still an English Literature professor. He was slightly …

The yellow two-rotor postal-drone comes down to me as I walk down the pavement with the whole week's grocery. Generally, these drones are Prussian blue, with no biohazard symbol like it has of course; so this one must have something to do with the o…