My Dearest Marie I have traveled for many weeks from the Spanish port of Alicante across the Atlantic, braving tempests and disease,...

Beer. Salvation. Oblivion. Trance. Underworld. It’s a beautiful thing when you don’t care anymore. Oops, you’re free, oops, you’re an...

He’d just bought a bonsai tree to have something growing in his room. He wanted something to nurture – not because it implied his...

Jarred was a tall nervous fellow who smoked and played computer games competitively. He had once done martial arts and retained a wiry...

Denzel was an Eastern European woman. She was middle aged, but she didn’t know it. She believed that she was old at a subconscious level,...

A family hung around the table, a lightbulb floating above them from a long black cord. It was like a scene from the theater, except more...

Shredder was the bad guy because he thought he was the good guy. That’s what made him better than the good guys – he was unpredictable...

He watched the snollie move up her finger like a caterpillar, its little green back rising and hunching and then pushing it forward. “Are...

The android strode down the catwalk with a sway to her hips, precisely calibrated, monitoring her algorithms. Her long legs moved so...

The tower was in an ordinary road with ordinary houses on a long lane that disappeared into a single point like lines in a perspective...

“Purpose is the most important thing to have. Suffering, without purpose, is the worst kind of suffering. Working, without purpose, is...

From the south end of the room came a chair, and from the chair came a thousand moments of if only, what if and surely if. It was a chair...

He wondered what she would do without him. They had become connected. Sometimes, she would be angry with him for things he had done that...

In the spring of 2017 I flew to Rome with my parents to reclaim my heritage. The son of an Italian, I’d never visited and couldn’t speak...

She pushes her way through the revolving door in a black minidress, confident and fragile. She shouldn’t be wearing that here. The pawn...

“Real artists have a moment when they lose control of their art and surrender to their intuition.” said the thin man in the immaculate...

“What’s gray and can’t fly?” He looked at her with his customary grimace. “A parking lot.” “Wow.” His grin was like wildfire, furious and...

David Denton could control a mobile sea slug. He could maneuver it along the floor of the ocean using his mind. Its primitive sensory...

Donald Trump was eating brains. He was always hungry and he had a new idea. The brain had arrived on a platter of white rice. Each of the...

The ice fields, snow white walls on dark blue water, reached as far as the eye could see. Huge towers of glacial blue ice, occasionally...