Stories tagged “cheese”

  • Technofromage (Mature)

    “Eat this. It’ll activate after about 30 minutes.” She holds out an irregular wedge of a waxy hard cheese, vat-grown for sure. It makes him think of clean, white linoleum. “There’s what, like, nanites in there?” he a...

    • Author: wordwill
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Technofromage Aged

    The gag reflex rises but it’s not nearly strong enough. He narrows his eyes and glares at her. “You’d better be kidding me.” “I’m not.” “Fine,” he sighs. “Let’s hear it.” She pulls...

    • Author: Trann
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Not a Gouda Sign

    He’s expecting to see stats about neural degeneration or something equally dire, but the monitor is just blinking from flat black to bright white. The changes speed up, until the screen is flashing like a strobe. “Why are you, uh, making th...

    • Author: jesteram
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Mission of Love

    Meanwhile in the ruins of Versailles tiny points of metal made delicate music across marble floors. Dispatched on their duty the minuscule minions of justice set about a task theoretically beyond them. The parts should be too large to maneuver. The int...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • To Survive

    The flames were engulfing the house. Despair encompassed me as I realized I was at deaths door. The only question was what would take us there. With my pistol at my side, I gazed out of a window upon the horde waiting away from the fire in the trees. L...

  • Goat to go

    China’s a pretty good place, turns out. It’s exactly as his implanted memories describe it. Except the smell – somehow manufactured memories can’t get smell quite right. That leaves him feeling permanently a bit out of place. Th...

    • Author: boxofun
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Time and Seasons

    In the still of a frigid night we met, two strangers on a snow covered quad. Through the fog from my own breath her eyes flared wild shades of green. Over two cups of hot chocolate our souls warmed, a romance for the ages, or so my tender, impressionab...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • I Love Cheese!

    One of the things I want more than anything is to write, and I want my words to be perfect. I know, there isn’t such thing as perfection. Still, I want my writing to be short but intense, funny but serious, deep even if shallow. I want my writing to ...