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Ch 4: Should we conspire and brunch? The yellow and orange vest with tiger stripes shined and screamed gaudy, but the man wearing it knew it and did it with the intention of provocation. He worked decades on climbing the proverbial ladder for leadership, and with the help of both mother nature and scientific enhancements,…
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After 14 exceptionally average hours of their final shift, Siete is called into the office of their L low-base manager. A spry woman for her visibly covered-up and modded age, who usually exudes normal dispositions of sternness and competency required for her job. Except for today. Today she had to oversee a resignation, something akin…
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The eldest elbowed a few nudges into his brother , trying to budge into him the concept of diplomacy. “Stop being so obviously judgy, or else we will never be on time! And you know what happens to unemployed people of our age-“. The last remark got him visibly unsettled which, for now, he agreed…
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“Tip-tap, tip-tap”, sounded the pigeons slowly making their way across my tin roof. I can’t even remember when they decided that the tip of my house was the best feeding ground, but with time I started to get used to my temporary housemates. Besides, if there’s something I’m not missing, it’s time. My eyes still…
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Ch 1: Fast-paced first day A giant holographic clock alternates between 4 usable colors, with the fifth lost to rusty circuitry; Its projections flicker from time to time, unveiling the building in the shape of a thin pillar used as a display board. One of the many massive constructs that rise above the rainbow gas…
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The rules Current Leaderboard- 8. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted and CEO Elina 7. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted and CEO Zude 6. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted and CEO Priya 5. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted and CEO Ekapol 4. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted CEO Alvara 3. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted CEO Robert 2. Patient Redacted C.T.D Redacted…
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It was the middle of August when the wind howled through the cracks of a house made out of stones, straws and held together by arid mud. It had four windows, but you could peek through only two of them, while others were boarded with termite-eaten planks. Surprisingly though, a vestige of a powerline kept…
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As a child, I never knew the word or knew what a mirror was, as no one from the village would even whisper it; the existence of an object that could show you what’s behind the tip of the nose better than the wavy surface of the water was hidden. I wondered if my eyes…
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Hello, I’m Steven the living, reconstructive, block of flesh and this is an interview about, well, me and my thing. When I lose parts of my body, I can regrow or reattach them and I did it over 400 times now. As an example, the little finger you can see on the floor next to…
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Step by step, guided by an ancient routine, the twenty something editor drags his legs from the bed to the office room. The grogginess was how the the universe told them that a long day was just around the corner, with a lot of raw footage left unchecked and unworked. When they got the job,…