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You going somewhere with this, Spider, or can we just take it as read that you’re a bit cranky today?
Paradox Resolution (2012)
He swore, pissed off, trying to keep the past in the past instead of stinking up the present.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
Maybe he was crazy, he thought. It would explain everything. Insanity was good that way.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
You up for it, or am I going in again? Please note, by the way, there is only one correct answer to this question.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
The coffee, when he tried it, was strong almost to the point of being unbearable, but not quite. In short, it was divine.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
He felt a trickle of cold fear in the depths of his belly, a dread that he was going to get his wish.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
The future was not what it used to be.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
“Spider!” Mr. Patel said, coming up to him, taking his hand, pumping it hard. “You’re a hard man to find!”
“Evidently not hard enough.”
Paradox Resolution (2012)
The great majority of them came back a week later, complaining that it was all Spider’s fault. Yes, he thought, it was his fault. It was his fault for trying to help idiots.
Paradox Resolution (2012)
It was hard to just sit and relax. Everyone he saw somehow looked suspicious, especially all those people who appeared perfectly innocuous: nobody who looked that innocuous could be anything but guilty, Spider thought.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
It was a hard thing to contemplate, even harder to accept, the inevitable tide of technological progress, which even as it created careers for some, also destroyed careers for others.
Paradox Resolution (2012)
And in that moment, Spider noticed a strange thing. He found to his surprise that he did not dislike Mr. Patel. Which, obviously, was a long way from liking the man, but who knew? Maybe that would come in time.
Paradox Resolution (2012)
Spider had to keep that firmly in his mind. It was a lesson he had learned on the job: things are not always as they seem. Sometimes, even most times, they are far stranger than you’d imagine, and most likely more perverse than you’d care to consider.
Paradox Resolution (2012)
He’d lived with a mad sculptress for long enough that he knew (believed, really) that much of what passed for art these days was bullshit, all naked emperors and nobody commenting on it. In any case, as soon as he registered, “ah, sculpture”, he lost interest and looked away.
Paradox Resolution (2012)
“The bloody future,” Spider muttered. “What’s it ever done for us?”
Paradox Resolution (2012)