WHEN YOU GET TO MY AGE_I'm done with This_Liquid Courage_Project: Uncanny Valley
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WHEN YOU GET TO MY AGE
WHEN YOU GET TO MY AGE “Morning.” “Good morning, how are you today?” “Bordering on absolutely brilliant.” “Good for you. Me too.” “In that case good for you, too.” “Thank you. Anywhere I can direct you to today?” “Well, when you get to my age it’s always handy to know where the toilets are.” “Sure. They’re that way at the end of the store.” “Just as well I went before I came, then.” “Oh! Okay. Anywhere else I can direct you to?” “My wife says that pests are attacking her roses but I swear it’s not me.” “Oh! Ha ha. Pest control is in aisle 15、” “Thank you.” “Do you need a trolley?” “Yes, prefe...
I'm done with This
"I quit!"I looked up in surprise. Who said that? I turned my head and stared at the man sitting next to me in confusion."Excuse me?" he asked, looking alarmed.I looked at him; really looked at him and realised that those were my words. I smiled at him and said again, "I quit!" This time I knew I was saying it out loud. But my growing clarity was doing nothing for him. I burst out laughing."I'm so sorry, Devin. That was not what I intended to say. It was more of a realisation. I'm quitting," I said, and took a deep breath before carrying on, "unfortunately I'm quitting you, or rather seeing you...
Liquid Courage
CW: mentions of date rape“Here you go, sis. S’later.”Julian pulled over and stopped at the café where Shelby worked.“Aurora’s my friend, Jules. Get real. We could hang out. Get acquainted. See if you like her.”“I’m already in love with her, Shel.”She grinned. “So, you love her cute little mole…?”He gasped. “Wait. She has a mole? Like a pet?”Selby stared in disbelief. “No idiot. She has a whole flock of them. On a ranch up north.”“What?”“On her lip. The mole on her lip. A beauty mark. I don’t believe you.”~Julian followed Shelby in. He watched Aurora for a few minutes before approaching the cou...
Project: Uncanny Valley
“Huston, we have a problem,” Vrishab says.There is no one named Huston on the space station. There is no one named Huston on the deserted planet below. Despite that, Vrishab uses a phrase from two millennia ago, back when it was a big deal to fling a human in a metal box onto a giant rock in the sky. Now, we aren’t so impressed by such puny feets.Astro sulks over so that he can blame Vrishab or I for whatever happened, and pulls apart the robotic torso that is straddled to the table here in the workshop. I’m the only female programmer this team has ever had, but I’m also only the second progra...