It hurt, numbly though, and paled in comparison to the other pains that filled his body. It was not supposed to be like this, he thought, looking at the scorched flesh on his right arm as he dragged a faltering leg behind him. He limped, the pain in his right thigh a searing, continuous agony as ...
She lanced back with a scathing reminder about the testing, set for early tomorrow, at which point I left. If I could blame my antisocial behavior on Asperger’s like some ridiculous TV character I would, but the truth is that I was trying my hardest not to think about the lives I had cost in my a...
He smiled, and I suddenly wondered exactly why he was so damned happy to be looking down the barrel of a gun. “Well, now, isn’t that a change from just a few months ago when your people tried to put me in the ground right after Andromeda?” I asked, getting the sense that I should pull the trigger...
Senator Foreman’s voice was stern and tight, laced with disapproval through and through. “High jinks, mostly.” I was sitting in my suite in the Palazzo, in bed. Management had comped us the cost of the place for the night. I’d done some delicate manipulation of Century’s t...
7. “He’s gonna be a tough one,” Kurt said, squinting his piggy eyes in the glare of the sunlight. “Always has been,” I said. I wore dark glasses, not only because of the sun shining overhead but because I didn’t feel like having people look me in th...