Charles Aoki's parents sold him into alien slavery -- and his life hasn't gotten any better since. Now he spends his days doing chores and dangerous work for his owners, his only respite time in a virtual-reality.
J.I.Greco—science fictionalist, aspiring reprobate, and gentleman curmudgeon—writes and doodles hunkered deep underground in a psychic-proof bunker while his wife, son, and indentured cats blithely frolic on the surface above in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is southwestern Ohio. Rumors that he is a Writerbot Model 9000 robot have never been fully disproved.