Silence Without

“There, there,” the ButlerBot says, without making even the slightest effort to sound comforting. “There’s a time and a place for that, and...

The bowl of fine bone china made from real Chinese bones smashes on the ButlerBot’s monoform head, and fails to even scratch the polished fi...

The ButlerBot sighs as you surge into action. The pillow, holy smokes, the pillow! It’s a trap! You flail about like an epileptic fish, t...

“I’m afraid that is the extent of the morning menu. Miss Henry has very stringent ideas concerning early morning digestion. As is oft quot...

“You are in bed,” the ButlerBot says, with a faint tone of long-suffering and entirely non-judgemental patience that is nevertheless pure sc...

These sheets have a 10,000 thread count. It could be higher, but there comes a point where quality can no longer be measured, and merely fal...

It was a random encounter at the station, and I ran. I didn't know I was fleeing till I'd fled, and by then it was too late. Just ...

08:56 Hello again, 4am. Oh, you brought a friend? Nice to meet you, 5am. And 6am? Gosh. Gee. Whizz. # 11:32 Finally twitter has been bl...

Letters from India: Serving the Goddess looks at the lives of current day devadasi, a class of sacred sex workers who ply their trade in th...

On the few shifts I have that fall in the realm of normal, sane, everyday business hours, I tend to make an effort when dressing. It's ...

"Betty Crocker." Yeah, I made Dad triceratops biscuits for Father's Day. I don't know if he liked them or not. I liked t...

Selena - because she's gone and moved herself to some sort of horrible alternate dimension where there are no books. What's up wit...

An Exercise In Logic Time is a guy. I rather like Time, you know, in that way. Due to the current narrative laws of my life, this means th...

12:39 Printing 100 double-sided pages without page numbers is not the most intelligent thing I've ever done. # Automatically shipped ...

19:36 Athena has vacated my cranium. She said it was too cramped and smelt like mildew. # 20:01 There is no icecream in the freezer. O...

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? Aside from a really bad photo, that's the current issue of Weird Tales . I just finished eating it, partial t...

When I woke the migraine had downgraded itself to merely being a razor-edged headache, and that's, pfft, easy peasy, so I went to work. ...

07:30 MonsterLasagneOverlord demands to invade and infiltrate parent's fridge. I must obey. # 07:43 Holy fudgcicles, Batman, Moster...

08:40 Oh, my furry overlords! Your slobbery kisses wash the worst of nightshift away. # 11:05 I'm being "AHSTOPTHAT" eve...

The idea settled a month or so ago, and grew over the course of the Olympic Games, and in the middle of nightshift as I sat watching the clo...