*In the Lab w/ Caroline was lived in front of a citywide audience. Caroline opened the door by waving her hand in front of the sensor. It was locked with a biometric tumbler. There were maybe a handful of locked doors left in the city of Ultima, the last city on Earth, a city of... Continue Reading →
Lynn walked the streets of the Rim with purpose and with confidence. Even though everyone who lived out there knew her as a serious woman, not to be bothered late at night, she was always a little wary of accidents this close to her back-up date. In Ultima, the last city on Earth, death meant... Continue Reading →
President Taryn sat at her impressively large and incredibly old desk and stared off into space. For more than twenty years she had sat at this desk—the desk of former kings—and greeted the citizens of Ultima one by one as they aired their petty grievances. In Ultima, citizens often lost their minds just thinking of... Continue Reading →
Rachel couldn’t move voluntarily because every muscle in her body was so tense that she shook. “Have you been drinking tonight, ma’am? Do you have any weapons? Is there anything illegal in here that you want to tell us about before we find it? Do you have pencils or paper in the apartment?” The Captain... Continue Reading →
A young woman entered the office of the president carrying a worn piece of paper. Communication was under constant surveillance, so citizens sent private messages on paper like they did when the Trumps shut down the internet. Pencil lead was an expensive resource, but when put to paper it became priceless. Paper was reused until... Continue Reading →
President Taryn tapped her well-manicured fingers on her well-worn mahogany desk. It was a beautiful relic, she thought, enjoying the sound of each of the seven taps against the long-extinct wood. She counted them automatically. She counted everything. The books on each shelf. The steps of each guest. The number of times they got her... Continue Reading →
The evening’s haze diffused the fading light of the setting sun beautifully as my craft descended and landed safely onto the planet surface. Thank the Gods. I was the first of my kind to set toe and claw on this blue rock. The first Lameer to visit. The first lizard traveler to claim an unclaimed... Continue Reading →
Caroline worked hard for the limited respect her colleagues afforded her. She was a proud woman, an accomplished geneticist and a competent chess player. At least her cat, Lucy, thought so—but Lucy also wanted her to quit her job. It was her stature that made her coworkers look down on her and prank her. She... Continue Reading →
Lynn, number 108, because that was the number of times she had died, threw her arms wide to the friends, fans and patrons who had waited outside in the cold for the doors to open. There was a stage in the back shared by a handcuffed officer and a thirteen-foot, eight-hundred-pound alligator without a leash,... Continue Reading →
The sun, relentless and unsettling, slipped slowly behind the horizon beyond the walls of the walled city that had once been Wichita, Kansas, now home to more than seventy million women who had come to see the sun as their enemy. The outer walls glowed burnt orange as bicycles hummed and lights flickered on. Seventy... Continue Reading →
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