Welcome to The Family

06/21/10 • 39 min

This story is about a strange group of cyborgs - not people with robotic limbs or organs, but whose physiology at a cellular level is a co-mingling of organic and robotic components. Cyborgs whose gross physiology bears no resemblance to the people they were before becoming members of this tight-knit group known as 'The Family.' This story, really, is about a boy in love, and the lengths he'll go to to try to save the girl he loves from succmbing to the fate he himself has fallen prey to. Will he be able to protect her from becoming a member of The Family? Listen to chapter 20 of Forget What You Can't Remember for the other side of this story.

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How To Disappear Completely

This story really helps fill in the other side of a part of Skythia's story, from the perspective of the Skythian employees who were tasked with trying to hide their flying city from some unknown, unseen apocalypse. Falling mostly between chapters 5 and 7 of Forget What You Can't Remember, if you pay close attention you can see some of the ways the 'doomsday event' they were trying to protect themselves from changed their lives in ways they didn't even notice.

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They Stole God, part 1

This story is one of my favorites from this collection, delving into theology, cosmology, ethics & morality, while telling a tale that ends up containing dramatic & violent bank robberies and the violation of the sanctity of religious dogma - by force. Follow a group of monk-like religious adepts and their friends as they find that the deeper into the secrets of their religion they delve, the more impossible their escape from its clutches becomes. Some readers may want to look up the nature of such far-flung physics concepts as dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of singularities to understand the full scope of theology herein, and others will just want to know what strange plan they come up with next.