A comatose patient undergoes an experimental procedure that uses favorite childhood stories to pull the patient back into consciousness鈥攂ut the experiment doesn't go quite as planned...
Author: Don Nigroni Yesterday on Christmas Day, I was at my filthy rich, albeit eccentric, uncle鈥檚 house. And that鈥檚 when and where everything went awry. After dinner, he took me aside to his library to enjoy a cigar and a tawny port. 鈥淲e know our current materialistic paradigm is pure garbage, yet we still cling [鈥
The Mote in Bird鈥檚 Eye; or, Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space - Lightspeed Magazine
Dear Aunt Harriet, If you鈥檙e reading this note it means you survived. That鈥檚 wonderful news: I always loved you the most. The notes I sent out with Aunt Anita and the cousins are friendly letters, I promise, us being kin and all, and I surely hope they survive too. But I鈥檓 happiest about you.
At age nineteen, Robot Girl had dropped out of the most prestigious university in the country, had no objectives in life, and was now stuck pet sitting for the lovely lesbian couple at her old church.