I lay on my back staring up at the ceiling trying to get my bearings. The room was unusually silent and black. Not even the usual streams of light were breaking through my window to let me know it was safe to sleep. Maybe that’s why I woke up. Once the sun had faded below […]
Maybe I had lost touch with the real world. Sometimes I wished I could just give up on it. Sometimes I would sit on the couch in my apartment and just stare at the ceiling and wonder why I even left the room anymore. Life had churned to a halt sometime between that summer before […]
How long ago was it now, the first time I drove at night? The first time I could truly feel the power of the engine purring beneath me. The first time I watched the light of the day sink beneath the far horizon. The first time I was immersed in a world that only existed […]
When someone would resign themselves to the blackness, and utter darkness in which nothing thrives, then to what ends would they themselves choose to live their lives? Often I asked myself that question as I began a trip into the hustle and bustle of the rooms downstairs. The students would often be laughing loudly and […]
What was it about life that sometimes just seemed to make it last forever. Every experience of every man was a series of sudden bursts of passion, followed by endless years of nothingness. So was it, that I was doomed to a similar existence. My passions were long since lost to the eternal abyss […]
It was funny how sometimes life was like this. Nothing was happening, nothing seemed important. Everything seemed so far away, like the objects had no substance. I could almost see my hands passing straight through the cushions on the sofa, slowly sinking into nothingness. I had to find a way to clear my head, […]
The room was cold and damp. The floorboards creaked uneasily beneath my feet as I paced back and forth in the small, dark, third floor room we were in. She was huddled in a corner now, her knees clutched tightly against her chest. I kept pacing. The door was barricaded as best we could do. […]
The ride home made me a little thirsty. I was sprawled out on my couch, sipping on a cool bottle of Mountain Dew. Nothing had ever tasted so sweet. On the screen in front of me ran a huge rendered video of our ride from early recorded by one of the tiny pin head cameras […]
The tests were run in a lesser-used section of town in a big stadium. The user had set it up specifically for his Mecha run. I had checked all the specs out in great detail beforehand. The “Soul-cc” was a monstrous fifty-feet tall, weighing several tons. It was powered by a modern fuel cell, which […]
Traffic was heavy; the old program we wrote ages ago to render it was originally a joke, now it was a rule. No one could break the rules once they were decided, not even now. The car was rolling along slowly through the crowded streets; hundreds of people crowded the sidewalks outside, all wandering aimlessly […]
I was in the middle of sifting through millions of files when the message came through. We had finished the format on the HK processor, I was checking out its stats. The bike’s CPU had to be perfect; perfect and small. The processor itself had capabilities I hadn’t explored, as of yet, the specs […]
The sun was rising slowly. I was starting to feel exhausted; the weight of the day was bearing down on me already. I could barley keep my eyes open. The shadows of my room retreated slowly into the corners, waiting silently for the night. I stared long and hard at my desk, my vision blurring. […]
The place was crowded, all of us pushed up against each other. The air was musty; sometimes it was hard to breathe down here. We were about twenty or thirty feet down in the old drainage systems for the city above us. The place was not much of a city anymore. It was long forgotten, […]
The room was cold now, silent. The wall was a dark black square looming over me as I lay staring at the ceiling. My thoughts wandered all over the place, never staying anywhere for very long. I had trouble sleeping at night, I always did. The second the sun would come over the hills out […]
We were at the appointed meeting place early. I was always early to any appointment. Ever since I was a kid my parents drilled it into my head. A lot of the people I used to know were all about the “fashionably late” thing. Not me. I was always the first person there. Better […]
The nights were long, longer then they had been in years. Sometimes it was hard to remember what the days were like way back when. The sun used to shine a lot then, for hours and hours. I still remember those summers when the sun was still up when I went to bed at night. […]
The air was smoky, and the lighting was dim. I was sitting at the bar nursing a drink, contemplating the morality of this and that. The jazz band in the back wasn’t that bad at all, probably some group that had gained some popularity with the clientele of the establishment. I tried not to listen […]
I rolled into town, cruising slower as houses started springing up around me. The blur that used to be the landscape slowly started to take form and shape. I remembered vaguely driving through the area with my father so many times before this. He used to take me out here for some reason, it escapes […]
I rolled out of bed; well at least I thought I rolled out of bed. My bed was a small uncomfortable futon on the floor of my small grungy apartment in a small town somewhere on the east coast. I couldn’t even remember what they called the place anymore; I hadn’t left in […]