Stories tagged “mechanical”
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Countdown
Thirty lanes, smart highway grids and years of evolution be damned; humans always slow down for a gruesome crash scene. John imagined that the Distracted (and possibly Departed, judging by the amount of smoke) must have been listening to the same broad...
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Mechanical Stars
The sound of screeching machinery echoes in the vast emptiness that is suburban winter. The stars have forsaken the sky and the night is left dark and cold. Shadows under the streetlight show themselves to be large and mechanical—robots. They see...
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Motor Mouth
And in a flash, I’m eating his scream. I’m attached. My diamonds tear his pink flesh. He fights back, trying to loosen my grip. But my reticulating mandible holds. The pistons in my bones grind down, crushing the bridge of his nose. My masticating ...