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Sofia lifted a hand to scratch the ever-present itch between her eyebrows, remembered her sealed helmet, and wrinkled her nose instead. It didn’t help, but it warned the older doctor that she had something else to say. “Spit it out,
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Plot error: she's in a sealed quarantine area, only in video contact with him, so there's NO REASON for her to be in a spacesuit!!
“The traditional wisdom when dealing with poltergeist phenomena is to keep an eye out for adolescent children in the vicinity.”
― Fables from the Fountain
― Fables from the Fountain
“You expect me to get on a helicopter? I don’t do helicopters. I weigh too much, and I know too much about gravity.”
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“Psychologists claim there is hardly anyone, anyone with a modicum of logic in a brain-pan, who cannot eventually see the light of reason. Maybe.”
― Cue For Quiet
― Cue For Quiet
“Some remnants sob, some scream, some fight you for control. It’s why you always charge your clients for an acclimation period, so you don’t end up with an unpleasant surprise when you first plug in a remnant drive—like the angry dead spewing vitriol at their bewildered relatives. (Clients do not usually pay for the privilege of being reamed out by their late loved ones.)”
― Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 206, November 2023
― Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 206, November 2023
“A war is a very serious gig indeed, and not one for which I am prepared, either mentally or pharmaceutically. Journalists who follow such things are another breed, another species altogether, lantern-eyed with long sleepless nights of shelling, their postures permanently altered by the weight of their combat armor. They speak a language all their own, intelligible only to others of their species, and they are a dying breed. Today, bereft of even the tiniest civil disturbance to cover, they have begun to fight each other in bloody hand-to-hand combat, one-on-one, with teeth and fingernails, like psychopathic lemmings bent on the annihilation of their species”
― Now Wash Your Hands
― Now Wash Your Hands
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