lawrence gask

Valli usually didn't believe in liquid courage. He barely drank--he dealt with enough patients to know the risks of alcohol--and didn't keep any around the house. Even so, liquid courage was what he needed. Something to be his mental excuse, to tip him over into just do it already. Because he...

Scanning item #1204.... Data collected. Even as the android girl held the book open, her system cataloging was running at a million bits per second - eyes scanning across the page quickly, although the information collected seemed to mean not a thing in the context of Earth culture. How was it...

Valli had, for better or worse, become fixated on the idea of the library. The library seemed to be the cure for all his problems, the answer to his prayers. The library would resolve all his awkward tensions, and would answer Gask's oh-so-obvious moral dilemma. The library was why he was...

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Chloe stood outside of the cafeteria, leaning back against a wall. The light of her phone's screen lit her face, battling the daylight and its glare so Chloe could read. Around her neck was a silken collar. She was really just passing the time, not quite hungry yet, taking the opportunity to...

The first day at her new school had been a surprisingly pleasant one for Theodora, she had only gotten into one fight and it was almost time for her last class. Most of the people here seemed to either have a lot of willpower, not be affected by her, not get close enough to her to want to see...

Somewhere along the line, Valli probably should have thought about how it was a bad idea. There were a lot of parts about the idea that were unquestionably bad, and plenty more that were debatable. He was bringing something to life, an action which required actual paperwork to do, and yet he'd...