Parched. She could no longer remember a time when she was not parched, when her roots did not dig so far into the earth that they nearly breached its molten core. Sometimes she had flashes of memories of being supple of limb and well-coiffed with lively green leaves. But those recollections were dusty like the […]
“Why does doing the right thing never feel good?” “I do not understand.” Basil’s voice was mild as always. “Well, take us for example. We’ve been dating since I was seventeen, but until I was eighteen, we never went farther than kissing. Seventeen is legal throughout the Coalition of Aligned Worlds, so why did we […]
“Five more minutes,” I demanded, and the Faceless Man nodded. “It’ll cost ya,” his voice came from nowhere. And everywhere. “How much?” “Ten seconds of attention.” Attention was one of the highest currencies. If the time was taken from your account at the wrong moment, you might blink and miss an ID scan or turn […]
Dog Days of Podcasting #4: In the Starbucks Doorway by Melissa Bartell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.