The Modern Prometheus

There is a man in the mountains who wanders by the roadside, picking up the pieces of cars that have fallen. He carries them gently back to his house and hangs them upon his wall. His wife calls him foolish but one day, he says, he'll have enough to make a whole car. This if...

A Little Splash of Colour

Almost everything in the room was green, from the emerald tiles to the olive chairs, to the lime table, to the virescent curtains. When Lady Sinclair chose a theme, she committed. The two interruptions to the colour scheme – a splash of red and a deep, metallic grey  – would ordinarily have been welcome additions,...

Ohwonoh

Ohwonoh stuck the antenna into the carton and set it carefully next to the plastic steak. His lip motors twitched. Perfect. Ohwonoh was an eccentric even by the standards of his model. He had developed a taste for what he described as "an authentic lifestyle, in the model of the Creators." Faith in the Creators...

A Routine Stop

"Do you have any idea how fast you were going?" the police officer asked. She had a hard face and a torch that scorched his eyes like a small sun. "Quite fast, ma'am," James replied. "Quite fast indeed. Any reason for the urgency?" "Just eager to get home." He smiled nervously. There was a mewling...

Sound Advice

Mostly, everyone in the town was rubbish. The sort of snooty, upper-class people who'd never give to a charity they couldn't write off on their taxes and who went through cars like toothbrushes and toothbrushes like tissues. They were always loud about the colours of cups and silent in the face of brutality. But there...

How It Happened

Nobody was sure quite how the deer had got on the roof. Little pink-jacketed Susan, her frizzy hair flying in all directions and her hands unable to stay still for an instant, suggested it came from Santa's sleigh. It wasn't Christmas, but the deer must get bored waiting in the shed, so this one wandered...

A Terrible Mistake

Lily gave Mark a look of disdain. There was, he thought, an art in the way she curled her lip. "It's not really my fault," he said. "All right." Lily sat down. "Explain. I'm a fan of absurdist fiction." "You could have left a note. 'Do Not Eat. This is for the party.' I came...

How Galavant Subverts Disney’s Formula

Galavant is the best show you've never seen. Let's just get that out there. This wonderfully strange and silly musical/fairy tale/satire went quietly into the night after two seasons on ABC, but mark my damn words it will have a resurgence somewhere in some medium in the next five years. It's too good to die for...

You Came to the Right Place

Elizabeth tried to ignore the fact that her neighbor's door had ten locks. So he's cautious, she thought. Perfectly normal. The locks went, one after the next, until the door opened a crack and two intense eyes glared out her from a haggard face. "What is this?" he asked. "I'm Liz. Your neighbor. We've never talked before,...

TLT – Extracting Information

"There's more than one way to get you to talk," the black-suited man muttered ominously as he pulled open the drawer and began rummaging. After a moment of cacophonous sifting, he produced a wrench and held it up to glisten in the flickering fluorescent light. "You tell me what she's planning for my birthday," he...