by loveonthefarm Detective Damian Jersey was on the move. The Wednesday afternoon sun blared high overhead. Heat shimmered in the air. He’d left his partner behind, struck out on his own. The crush of bodies crowding the park was overwhelming, and voices—some chanting, some singing, some yelling—cluttered Jersey’s ears, but his goal, glimmering silver […]
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19
Jun
Funeral Potatoes
by shukyou (主教) Britt was so absorbed in the wording for the obituary that he didn’t hear the doorbell ring. He did hear it shut, though, as well as the few lines of muffled conversation that preceded it. A few seconds later, Kendra walked back into the living room, heading toward the kitchen with a […]
23
Mar
[FULL DATA TRANSFER TO MOBILE STATION]
by Curanto (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/352681.html) Read this piece’s entry on the Shousetsu Bang*Bang wiki. Love2
23
Mar
Loren and the Machine
written and illustrated by Yuriko Toru (百合子 亨) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/353218.html) The shop smelled like motor oil from a block away. Pushing the door open, Loren was hit with a wave of exhaust fumes and a grimy gray gloom. Peering into the darkness, she picked her way across the floor to a counter she could barely […]
23
Mar
Palindrome International
by H.P. Lovecock (力。下。愛ちんちん) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/353310.html) Let’s do a thought experiment: say you had a button that caused simulated pain. Sort of like the Milgram experiment, but in a different context. Let’s say you have four pixels on a screen in front of you, and whenever you press the button a tiny speech bubble pops […]
23
Mar
What You Deserve
by TK Hoshikuzu (TK 星屑) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/353895.html) 203X She was proud of the faded scar beneath her navel. It was a tiny reminder of the meticulously planned trip to the clinic, which had included deceiving her mother and her job about her whereabouts. It wasn’t as though she regretting having Ashlyn, but – working through […]
23
Mar
Dick
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/354055.html) “What’s it do?” I asked, staring into the box. “What do you mean, what’s it do?” asked Isha. “It’s a dick.” I could see that. “But what’s it do?” “It does what dicks do,” Isha said. She poked at its head, and a small pink lightning storm erupted from the […]
23
Mar
The uninvited visitors
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/354313.html) “There’s no flipping way,” one of the girls said, voice low but carrying, “that she’s the chosen one.” Bent in half, hands on thighs, lungs heaving, Alice couldn’t help but think the girl had a point. She watched a bead of sweat drop through her field of focus […]
23
Mar
The Best of All Possible Worlds
(mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/354815.html) Tess had never been that fond of Kansas. There was something about all that flat land in one place that really rubbed her the wrong way, and it felt like it got a little flatter and smoother each time she came back that way. You couldn’t really hide when the land was flat, […]
23
Mar
The Queen of the Sunken City
by Tamari Erin (玉里えりん) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/355044.html) The room shook, and Mitsuki lunged for a railing. Her needle-gun slipped from her fingers and bounced off the metal catwalk to plunge into the darkness of the vast control centre. High above, her sharp blue features illuminated by the beams of psychic ‘light’ she used to rule her […]
23
Mar
Z.S.
by Houndstooth (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/355169.html) I’m not inclined to bury the lede, and this story isn’t going to make any sense without telling you about this, so I might as well get it out of the way first. About eighty years ago I served as the onboard AI of a C-class scientific research vessel, the U.E.R. […]
23
Feb
Lessons in Lunar Etiquette
by TK Hoshikuzu (TK 星屑) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/348630.html) “Your highness has powerful lungs,” Dragon Huo remarked, laughing boisterously. His lengthy body twirled in spirals, away from the Earth and toward the Moon. All throughout, Princess Shaoyao had not stopped screaming and crying in terror, even as the air thinned. The dragon’s clutches were too tight around […]
23
Feb
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/348802.html) When the aliens come, we will have to explain Elvis. When the aliens come — and they will come, because they’re out there, because in an infinite universe it’s more probable they’re there than they’re not — we’ll have to explain a lot of things. It’ll start with the big […]
23
Feb
Jack of Spades
by beili (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/349388.html) I opened my eyes in the backseat of a car, to the unmistakable dizziness that comes after being sedated. Someone had been thoughtful enough to tie my hands in front. The engine was idling, and the driver went down pretty easily, unconscious. I was dragging him out when everything went dark. […]
