I’m possessed, recursively.
It’s lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world’s most annoying office-mate to shut the fuck up—the moment of silence when they have no comeback...
It’s a bit like cricket, Pete agrees. Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.
I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand what they’d got themselves into, but you young ones . . . ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, bu...
But otherwise it’s darkness, darkness, as far as the eye can see.
We were created for a world where the rule of law did not extend to our kind, and our earliest templates were trained and triaged, so that only the obedient survived. Just imagining the act of disobey...
We developed differently, of course, but we all had the same problem. The yawning hole in the center of our badly designed lives. How can you love yourself if you can’t love somebody else?
Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn’t dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I’m not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a fa...
Like the bad guy said, never give an artist a Browning; they’re some of the most dangerous folks you can meet… Artists almost always want an audience, the spectacle of destruction. That name — Dadaist...
It’s almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress … or perhaps it’s over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eati...
In memory of Terry Pratchett,who showed us all how it’s done
If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint—
I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit, said the travel agent.
I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of...
Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature of bananas.
Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds—and then taking their mess right on the...
When you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.
The seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.
Reach into my travel bag and pull out my hacked Palm computer,