A  stoic face, half covered in  aviators walked through the  florescent halls of the  Westcity police department laboratory, being led by a police officer in his middle age.

"Like I said, this one is a real doozie. Nobody at Oakwood could figure it out, so they called us in." he looked...

The knocks on the door frightened her. Three of them. Neither soft or hard, equally spaced apart.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Why hadn't they just use the doorbell, she wondered? By reflex she was headed towards the door when she remembered that the house had a camera installed facing towards the street that...

"The car came from nowhere. I couldn't even hear an engine until it was driving off."

"Maybe it was an electric car? Those things are quiet."

"No. Once it was driving away I could hear the engine. I could hear it from real far away after I couldn't see it anymore."

"So a...

He didn't know what to say. He was hoping that the PO Box man would say hello first so that he wouldn't need to. But the man kept playing with Todd instead. Todd was so happy that PT thought the man had given him treats. But actually he was just...

A woman in her late twenties, draped in a black dress walked through the ambiently lit corridors holding a glass of amber brown whiskey . She entered the master bedroom where the tall man with his long legs was still suited in his professional garb. He knew she was coming,...

By 2010 the world had become unrecognizable. On the surface.

Peer deeper and you'd see how things were changing less.

The details were changing. smartphones , increasingly  global economies,  electric vehicles , and promises of  self-driving cars.

But what actually mattered had calcified further.

Sebastian thought this while sipping through the middle of his ...

He had to cart in a wheelbarrow three quarters filled with mostly Andrew Jackson s and Abraham Lincoln s to buy his milk , eggs , and sliced bread for the week. But he never complained because he was a good ole fashioned REAL AMERICAN.

While in the checkout he heard...

There was a non insignificant fire in the town she had just moved to. Was she already using the word 'move'? She would be there less than a month. She couldn't use that word.

The fire initially seemed like it wouldn't pertain to her case. But she decided to look more...

For years... actually decades by this time... Richard had a calm "fuck off" ready to serve his sister the moment his she would reach out for help. The two had been close before the money , and when he first began earning real money he couldn't be more excited, the...

I'll never forget, for years after  college graduation I feared  hunger so much that I had no mindspace to be worried about anything else.

This is why I could never get on board with what everyone else seemed to be upset about. All I could think about was how I'd get...