Stories tagged “experiments”

  • Confrontation

    I am suspended above a vat of some translucent blue fluid. Electrodes are attached to my skin and my bald head. I am naked, strapped down to a steel scaffolding. The door opens, sliding upwards. A man walks in. I instantly recoil as far as my containme...

  • Pain

    Pain shoots through my body with disconcerting intensity and distressing rapidity. I am submerged in a perfluorocarbon fluid (most likely ultra-purified perfluorodecalin; it’s what everybody uses in training), enabling me to breathe but not to sc...

  • Eureka!

    “Ah, the smell of beer and failure,” said Davis as he entered the bar. Gonzalez didn’t look up from his glass. He marveled at his Guinness and wished he could just dive in. “Go away Davis,” Gonzalez moaned. “No wait ...

  • The Survivor - Part I

    “But, is he ready?” Staff Sergeant Jonas grew impatient with this pencil pushing, wire-rimmed glasses wearing, medic that was Doctor Benjamin Benson. “Well our tests have revealed—” “Screw your damn tests Doctor.” Jonas hated doctors....

  • The Survivor - Part II

    Patient ID # 58550-07 stood in his room waiting for his meds. Thomas, his former name, looked down at his clothes, they were white. He hated that colour. He wanted to rip it off and break out of his room, go out the exit and catch the next off-world tr...