Alien Space Bats

“Meet Jane.”

What is war really like when unelected bureaucrats run everything?

Meet Jane. Jane knows nothing of steely eyes or grinning teeth. Jane knows of her office, in a comfortable suite in an administrative park on the pastoral world of…

“Young Love and Vampires”

By the third week the girl had stopped coming to school, and the boy who liked her started to get worried. The teachers cared, a little, but they had too many students to focus on one. The parents said she was sick, the boy discovered when he began to pry and he was given the…

“Caterwaul”

Back when I did the party circuit — I mean, when dinosaurs were walking the Earth, before you two were even around — the Caterwaul was always the big thing each year. Goddamn awful name it had. That was before they’d even put in any rules at all for the sensies, so there we’d go, all us party-parasites…