By lunchtime, Robot Valerie felt well enough to join her flesh and blood twin at Denise’s house for lunch, though of course she didn’t eat. Mr. Richards whipped up an enormous stack of sandwiches and everyone else enjoyed a hearty mid-day meal. Astrid noticed that as they ate, Dennis stared a...
Surely no other fine lady of the Great City can equal you in hospitality, graciousness, or dare I say beauty. The funds that you forwarded for the new machine have been received and have put to good use. I have hired a new assistant in whom I see a great deal of promise. With her assistance and w...
I led the beautiful Megara Fennec, which is to say Megara Capillarie from the home of some unknown person, who was no doubt a chubby little red-head with a checkered apron and a brown bonnet, and out into the town square of Potter Town, where the shadows were growing long, which is to say it was ...
And every day he got up out of bed and thought about how it was crap. Today he climbed out of bed and made his way through the discarded clothing on the floor of the bedroom to the bathroom. His worn image looked out of the mirror at him. He picked up his cordless razor and turned it on before re...
I never did find out what the man who owned that cabin did for a living. I didn’t examine his body closely enough to see if he was old enough to have retired from somewhere else to settle in the country. I didn’t see if he had any outbuildings where he could have carried on a trade. I don’t know ...