He considered it a great night if it happened to be a good episode of ‘Law and Order’ on the television. What a loser, he mumbled to himself as he...inserted the key in the lock. As usual, he had to wrestle with the door a little bit to get it open. Damn thing was warped, he’d called the apartment manager about it at least twice in the past two weeks, but as usual they were taking their own sweet time fixing it. When the door finally did come open, he was hit by the rush of stale air, accented by. This time, feeling adventurous, I said "Dare!". The words barely squeaked out of her mouth. "Kiss me", she said. I couldn't hear, so I asked what she had said. "Kiss me", she said again, but with a bit more confidence. Kiss her, I did. A long passionate kiss, the likes of which I hadn't seen in my marriage for years. From her reaction, it seemed she hadn't had that sort of kiss in some time, either. For the next several minutes we continued to make out until someone arrived, triggering our. The king saw the end coming and transferred a partial set of his personality and memories into the computer before the ship took a major hit. The king died but his partial ego lived on in the computer. The king's partial ego and the damaged computer made for an insanely powerful ship.The Aristis considered a personality in a computer to be nothing more than a computer. If he made it to an Aristis outpost he would just be a machine and the king would be considered dead.The Aristis could and had. Before he had a chance to settle in and close his eyes, he noticed the unusual bright light outside. He went to the window to see, but his view was obstructed. He raised the window, undid the latches on the screen, and pulled it inside. His window was over the front porch roof, and he crawled outside onto it for a better look. He was just in time to see the fireball streak low across the sky with a roar, and land with an mighty crash in the forest preserve outside town. "Holy shit!" he.