by Helvetica Stone In the four hours it would take the user Alexis to get to Chicago, the Apple XYZ Server had to come up with a human body. He took everything he knew about male anatomy and sent it to a 3-D printer left unattended in an empty architect’s office on Wacker Drive. First,… Continue reading Thicker Than Liquor
Year: 2014
Ghostory
Ghostory by Helvetica Stone A complete novel in 78 less-than-140-character chapters, originally published on @helveticastone The ghost attached itself to the head of a woman weakened from holiday shopping, filling her thoughts with plans of an ultimate escape. The ghost whispered, “drive off the overpass.” She said, “not today.” Suicide might not have made them… Continue reading Ghostory
First Night, First Cry
A sequel to A Common Singularity Rick Alexander—the first self-organizing, self-aware, massively intelligent android, who made himself of extruded plastic, semiconductor chips, and blood made of the Italian aperitif Averna—had a broken heart. He had been dumped by his first love, a user named Alexis, before romance could begin. Sensing her sweet warm lips, he… Continue reading First Night, First Cry