Lauren Everdell

Joined June 2022

35 stories

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Writer. Chronic sickie. Part-time gorgon. Probably thinking about cyborgs right now.

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True Dead
I breathed clove-scented smoke through the numbers in the air. But the clock glowed on, undisturbed, projected from the cognitive link embedded in my temple.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Scales and Pearls
It’s the perfect night for a story. Even the rowdy winter ocean seems to hush itself. To crowd the shore in silent, rilling wavelets that tumble toward the high water mark as if stealing close to listen.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Boots
“He’s wobbling,” Cador said, applying one grey eye to a tarnished spyglass. “What is it this time? The horse bones?” asked Arista, not looking up from her book.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Identity Theft
Do you promise to believe what you read here? I need to know that someone knows my story. After…well, after whatever’s happening to me.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Real
It’s going to be a wonderful day. Of course it is. Half a mile above ground, the air is chill and sweet as champagne. A murmur gentles the morning silence as commuters trade snippets of conversation, and the gliding arrival of our train does nothing to disturb the quiet.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Voices
“Someone do the handoff?” “Jane Doe, Patient Foxtrot Alpha One One, found semi-conscious in an alley. Multiple stab wounds to the torso and apparent blunt force trauma to the back of the skull. Query traumatic brain injury. Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 on site, flexed and opened eyes to painful stimuli, but remained non-verbal. Seized twice en route. Treated with Valium 2mg, IV, for a total dose of 4mg. GCS then dropped to 4. Blood pressure, hypotensive after fluids at 80 over 55.”
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
What Maeve Can See
He appears in the darkness, sudden enough she almost doubts he’s human. After everything he’s done, he may not be. She doesn’t hesitate. Puts a bullet between his eyes.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Omega Protocol
The comm behind my ear trills as I pass through the shipyard gates. “Go for Major Jasper,” I say. “Private Cecily Renfrow, requesting assistance on a mission of vital military importance,” comes the reply, laced with giggling.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Honey Magic
Perhaps there’s a town, clinging to a forgotten road between one city and another. Nestled with its back against a jawbone of mountains and guarded by forests on all sides. Perhaps there’s such a town.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Minuet
When the knife slips, cutting deep into the meat of the Craftsman’s hand below the thumb, he doesn’t notice the splash of blood that lands on his creation. By the time he returns from cursing into a box of bandages, the stain has vanished.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction
Dark Roast. Top Story - June 2022.
I can tell a lot about a person from what they drink. So could you, if you were in my line of work. Take Mr Green-Tea-Frappuccino. I’ve no problem with ironic beards, but when the temperature’s low enough you half expect polar bears on your commute? Sticking to iced drinks is perverse. Probably a Taurus, they’re known for that kind of thing.
By Lauren Everdell4 years ago in Fiction

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Scales and Pearls

Boots

Identity Theft

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What Maeve Can See

Omega Protocol

Honey Magic

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