TheSpinstress
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Living Things
In her heart of hearts, Soniya was against the tunnel. When she had first moved in with Andromeda, she had been higher than the lights to share a LiveSpace. She had been a solitary for a long time, and the company of Marie, her Artificial Sociable Simulated Interlocuter System and Temporator, was starting to drag. Marie was the latest model, with a fully upgraded games system, but she was still not quite...something.
By TheSpinstress 4 years ago in Fiction
5 of Juhi Chawla's Best Comedy Performances
Although Juhi Chawla has proven her versatility time and again with both romantic and tragic roles, it's probably her comic timing that has received the most praise over the years. Salman Khan recently claimed she has "better comic timing than Charlie Chaplin"!
By TheSpinstress 4 years ago in Geeks
The Long March Home
Torches roar. I mean, the old style, pitchfork-and-mob torches. Tiki torches? I had never once thought about them until December 31st, 2018, but they roar. When you light them. They roar like the wind can roar in the Hebridean winter, for a moment. No, they roar like the crash of the tumultuous sea against the side of a stricken boat.
By TheSpinstress 4 years ago in Fiction
The Flood
The thing about living in see-through housing is that you can see everything. When the flood had come, Julia and her family had sat tight in the dark centre of their Ugloo. Their ASSIST had conveyed messages from the supervising body. Julia had jumped out of her skin the first time it had spoken without being spoken to.
By TheSpinstress 4 years ago in Fiction
Phase Four
Maureen peered out from behind her mother’s long skirt. Everything here was alien; all the girls running around wore the same white blouse and bottle-green skirt she had on, the same knee-high socks, but they shouted and screeched like she never did. She watched one of them pull another’s long, dangling plait.
By TheSpinstress 5 years ago in Fiction
Up, Down, Up: A Song List
J ust like everyone else on the planet, I was lucky enough to grow up during the best years of music. My adolescence began with the millenium and involved headbanging, crying and finally dancing through the decade. These are the songs that helped to make me, or perhaps helped me to survive becoming me.
By TheSpinstress 5 years ago in Beat
