roblef's Favorites
-
Opus Dei

He started to speak, but the words were lost in the roar of a helicopter that had just appeared over the burned-out buildings…
-
How Not To Be in an Airlock
“I still don’t know why you need me in the air lock.”
“It’s like I told you. Something spilled, and we need you to clean it …
-
The Light of the Empire
Smuggling the Light of the Empire out of the Empire and away to safety was a damn thankless job, Kajian reflected, not for th…
-
An Unremarkable Factory

There is a factory in Chongqing. It is unremarkable; there is nothing to distinguish it from the other factories nearby. Work…
-
Sweet Carolina, Part 2 - Bad Day at Work

We had an “incident” at work – the power company, in their continuing crusade to keep tree limbs off their wires, had hired a…