You could call me a dirty pervert, but I'm really into paper books, since I was a little boy. What's the big deal about paper books, you'd say, everything's digital and online now, and I'd say you don't get it at all. Screens don't give you that solid wei...
In the morning, Nyoka had a fantasy dream. Her party of adventurers almost made it to the Demon King's castle, but the final encounter proved too difficult. The demons had killed all the party members except Nyoka, and they grabbed her, tore off her cloth...
This story began at the Genetics Lab's impromptu birthday party. There was just about everybody, that is, about two dozen young and promising scientists, drinking, dancing, playing video games, and engaging in drunken chitchat. "C-consider sexual behavior...
I started taking these notes because Dr. Brown asked the four of us to write everything down. "We're making history here," he said. "For the first time, we are not just enabling or improving existing systems, but creating an entirely new organ. Your journ...
Ivy was completely unprepared for the incident. In one moment, she was driving to work, gathering her notes for an upcoming interview. The next, the large trailer to her left blew a tire, lost control, and crushed her light car. The airbags deployed but w...
Clara, a young girl, is a waitress in a bar. She is slim, pretty, and good-tempered. She is at home on her day off when her phone rings. She sees the caller's name and lights up. "Hello? Hey, Jake, what's up? Sure, what's on your mind? What? Break up? Why...
"Watch ooout!" Mika entered the laundry room holding a pile of dirty laundry raised above her head. She dropped the pile on the floor and started stuffing sheets and duvet covers into free washing machines. Sarah and Jay, who happened to be in the laundry...
Chapter 1. The Antique Shop Hannah did not choose it. She was just wandering through the streets filled with small shops and restaurants, killing time before the plane back home and looking for places to spend what was left of her local currency. She push...
Maya, Olga, and Lina are colleagues and friends, they are nice and well-built girls. Their friendship is close enough, occasionally they go to the movies, the beach, or dance together, and sometimes they meet in the evening for a chat over wine and coffee...
Dora always despised her fat body, comparing it to an aerostat. Conversations about body positivity made her either sad or irritated, depending on her mood. By the time she was thirty-two, she had tried every means of losing weight, including some dangero...
On a warm summer morning, Kira leaves home to visit her friends who live on the other side of town. Danberg is a small resort town near the sea that takes about three hours to cross, so Kira decides to walk. She is naked as usual; naturism is widespread i...
Lara, a young human resources manager, meets Maria at the campus entrance. As in her previous interviews, Lara is barefoot and wearing only a light dress. Maria could bet there is no underwear. With her casual jeans, thick T-shirt, and running shoes, Mari...
An alternative future. Humans have not invented stable artificial intelligence or consciousness uploading (their software is stuck in the 2000s), but they have made great strides in modifying and augmenting the body. So instead of robots, they have cyborg...
Anita is ten years older than Tamara. For as long as they can remember, the sisters have lived in the Slums, the worst slums in San Jose. Their parents came to the city when Anita was a few years old, hoping for a better life. The parents had bad luck and...
Vika stands on the porch in front of an old door. It has rained recently, and she shivers a little, either from the freshness or from anticipation and excitement. She steps barefoot on the cool granite, pulls up her coat, and rings the doorbell. She is th...
