Stories I wrote, roughly chronological, but not exactly:
Pun filled silly story about a dope dealer.
Physicists come up with a science practical joke based on a loophole in a particular equation, that kind of gets out of hand.
A humour series I worked on for a few years. Stan is a janitor who has made breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, Mark is his program. A close group of other hidden AI programmers cross with jewel thiefs, televangelists, the Yugoslavian mafia, and a schizophrenic system manager. Meanwhile, the AIs have their own agenda.
Short tale of a visitor on a planet with transformative storms.
Two old people on a porch in orbit reminisce.
An alien agent disguised as a human has to deal with the emotions and relationships of the original life she took over.
Pretty random and disconnected events are connected.
Short, kind of cyberpunky scene involving disguised aliens again.
Short scene where a man pursued escapes to the sky.
A plasma being investigates a sleeping human, and makes a too realistic copy of her mind, and finds itself in danger of being taken over.
A man living on a space station discovers that he is actually a robot created to seem human, for purposes only known to a shadowy conspiracy - or maybe a bunch of conspiracies.
A being tries to make the transition from abstract to real.
Back on the Holistic BBS, the secret of who writes all the stories is revealed.
The "Starfish" were created to protect the planet from all conceivable threats. They continue to protect the pieces even after its unforseen destruction. Then, the aliens come.
On an isolated beach, Jana Kutarna takes it off. All of it.
Jana has a brain too, you know. And it's running a skyscraper.
The heroic legend of Jane Zadiction, defender of the galaxy.
Jane Zadicktion's last days, from the point of view of a very ordinary person.
Part 1: Billy V burns her clothes, and her friend Jana's, to create a spiritual portal.
Part 2: A soul made of music is transfers to human, antique doublebass, book, and human again.
Billy V's adventure is interrupted when Billy dislikes the way the story is going, and seeks out Tau, the author, for a mighty psychic showdown.
Virtual sex meets credit card.
Wacky life as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp. Yeah, about what you'd expect, so don't bother being offended.
A cat goddess returns to a devastated world years later, to a man who loves her, one last time.
Jack Traveller is some guy who goes around the workd, collecting the last things people say.
Doug is an athiest, God is his friend. Angela is confused.
A woman discovers a way to make reality become subjective, but when she decides to embrace it, the effects ripple through the world.
A lonely deaf man wonders how to approach a girl he's infatuated with.
One night on a deserted island, Katie is seranaded by stars.
A poem about an amazing waitress named Kendra.
Two longtime friends experience a sudden psychic connection that releases intimate feelings for each other. The connection becomes too intimate, however. (It was meant to be my first attempt at porn, but I don't think it works that way)
A new dress code at her workplace causes real problems for a woman's mysterious co-worker.
A man leaves a years-long concert/party.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: blue, tequila, accident)
An near-disasterous acccident with an artificial singularity releases immense contamination, and a mysterious artifact.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: I don't remember the words though)
Distant space travel requires jumps that can only be performed by humans with the right sensitivity to the subtlties of gravity. But that only happens to humans growing up on planets, which are mostly abandoned due to the expense of going up and down their huge gravity wells. Out of nowhere someone with unusually strong abilities has apparently appeared out of nowhere somewhere on Earth, and she's getting strong enough to affect jumps around the planet.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: talisman, cataract, solenoid)
An accident leaves a man in a dead spacecraft plummeting into the atmosphere of a planet.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: bull, world, destroy)
An artist finds that the audience of his first exhibition misunderstands his work completely. And get violent about it.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: wire, toothbrush, glue)
A young empress and her advisor discuss love, duty, and politics.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: I don't remember the words for this round either)
A man tries to find a balance between mysticism and mundanity in the exploration of the deeper secrets of the world.
(from the Holistic BBS three word story game: I remember replete, but not the other two)
Two people encounter each other periodically around the world. And don't really like each other, for deeply philosophical reasons.
A woman loses her lover, and decides to walk away. And keep walking, right off the edge of the continent.
A man crosses the line by making machines that can make themselves more intelligent, which leads to war with humans with inevitable results. Now he has to live with the results, whether he wants to or not.
A pretty robot suddenly declares she can hear God. Her owner isn't quite sure it's a malfunction.
A short scene of someone in danger of losing their heart - literally, as another calls for it to leave its owner and follow.
A woman describes living past the end of time, and wonders about her own state of mind.
A long abandoned alien gun only wants to defend its people, but lacks the power to do more than watch things happen around it.
Ants around the world begin a project which involves children, constellations, and an attempt to create a soul.
A woman finds an artifact, has wierd stuff happen to her, and gives it back to the ground in the end.
An explorers on a planet where everything and everyone seem to be made of solid jade discover what happened, and how it's linked to her past.
Kids use faith-enhancing drugs to walk in the air. And the Catholic church fears what that much faith might do if concentrated in one place.
Possibly the two last humans, lost when thrown off course by a black hole, try to discover why everyone left all settled planets at the same time, where they went, and what's happening to the rest of the universe.
Fire-based life forms are created, but their universe is cooling and shrinking.
Working in a McJob can be frustrating. Or boring.
Two women characters in a drama discuss the nature of the script and themselves, and who wrote their parts anyway.
An injured alien energy being falls to Earth and finds a temporary home in a woman's breasts, which start to grow as the alien starts to recover. She doesn't notice, for some reason.
A man discovers that reality doesn't work the way he thought it did when someone he knows explains that she fell through the cracks, and wants him to join her.
An airplane crash results in a woman's husband being torn to pieces. She watches as modern medical technology puts him back together.
Six women raised by a computer are now expected to populate a new colony. One volunteers to be transformed into a man for the purpose, but their understanding of sex is limited. Very, very limited.
Aliens steal every tape of "The Flintstones", and a cooking show host and two bumbling idiots have to find out why.
Industrial sabotage brings in government investigators, and leads to the unravelling of an international plot, a nuclear bomb, and some fancy swordfighting.