Being left behind like this was humiliating, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. If anyone should be out there trying to defend the colony it should be her, but the strangers told her to stay where she were, doing nothing like a child. &n...
Alex’s bandage turned red no matter how much she changed it. He was pale and clearly in pain, but shrugged all questions off, saying he would heal with time. If the wound became infected, he could die. And, what if he lost too much blood? He could get really sick, and what if she had to get a doc...
On TV shows, they always said the police wouldn't even file a report unless someone had been missing for forty-eight hours. From her point of view he'd already been gone forever, but it wasn't two days. Not everything on TV was true, but the forty-eight hour rule sounded true. They're not going t...
Sure, Patricia had spent quite some time down there, and he wasn't at all surprised even a machine would consider her pleasant. She was. His brain finally started working, telling him computers didn't chat just for the fun of it. "Are you trying to tell me something?" The short silence was as clo...
One rested in a box in the back of the closet. It was the first thing someone gave me when I first came to the Bell, with amnesia. Adam had bought me a dress, wanting me to feel pretty when he took me down to the promenade for dinner. The memory filled my eyes with tears. ...
Eve flashed a pretty smile and nodded towards me. “Call them off.” Adam sighed. “Stand down.” The group pulled back enough to let us pass, but one of the men kept his weapon aimed at Eve. I cheered for him in my mind. Shooting her in the head probably wouldn’t make any difference, but it could ha...