Cheap space destroyers, infinite manpower supply, and deadly new weapons were poised to ruin Mars’s day. With Earth’s invasion fleet perched over Mars’s two small moons and the invasion launch order imminent, Mars feverishly worked to buttress up its defenses. There was a hopeful hint that Earth was not quite ready, and that made the […]

Bill Gates, CEO and co-founder of Microsoft Corp., sat at his desk with his face hidden in the palms of his hands. He was pressing tightly on his eyeballs, trying to think. Absolutely intense competition in the microcomputer software industry, a shortage of skilled programmers, and the ever-lurking, ever-judging federal government were likely to be […]

It was cloudy over London and raining. The limousines traveling to and fro the poshest neighborhood in the City were slow and arrogant. Elton John was in one of them, and he craned his head out of the tinted window for a look at a homeless man. The derelict was huddled under a plaid blanket […]

There was something beautiful about the only brothel in Nevada that allowed customers to piss all over the backs of hookers (something not allowed elsewhere) while letting them film the act simultaneously. The Nevada Prostitution Supervision Agency (NPSA) received a report from their paid spy/hooker — maybe a redundancy — saying that male customers of […]

The plains were so empty they rang with echoes. When the noise was gone, a new atmosphere formed: something cruel, something unknown. Crawling out of the primordial ooze and appearing in a newfound world, this new force was becoming bold and strong. Laughing to himself as if he had no cares in the world at […]

Frank Diamond worked in a store that had been carelessly built and inadequately stocked by businessmen of unremarkable intelligence. The question was whether he would ever recognize the inferiority of his workplace and do something about it. The store, situated on King Street and drawing in irregular crowds of customers, didn’t do much business. Frank […]

CEO O’Brien stood at the skyscraper windows, his hands lightly touching the glass. The tech and cultural efforts that he had assigned his workers showed the profitability of an economy that was booming. Unfortunately, other transnational corporations had gotten a scent of the profits and were busily horning in on O’Brien’s market share. O’Brien was […]

The chem clouds were circling high above and getting thicker and darker gray by the second. The sun, blotted out by the incessant cloud cover and struggling to break through, remained but a memory in the minds of man. The wind was a colossal force of nature, as pitilessly remorseless as a punch in the […]

Striding through the ruthless city and shrugging his black cloak around his shoulders, Ian McDiarmond reached the intersection of Pain and Ambition. McDiarmond, who had lost his position in the Second Global Corporation, when it was challenging for top spot, and whose current rank was lower than a construction worker’s, took out his cell phone […]

I admire Donald Trump because he gets a tremendous amount of hate but keeps his chin up and his natural arrogance intact. Popularity isn’t a true measure of a man. Everybody gets haters. Even in dictatorships, where they rig elections, care is taken so that it’s never 100% of the vote going to somebody. It […]