Category: Science Fiction Type: Fiction
Copyright: 6 Jan 2009
The Marquis Doll Investigations is a sequel to The Marquis Doll Adventures. It is of course set in the same future world and features many of the same characters.
This is once again very much a work in progress, with just a few parts so far completed.
Dragon's suggestion came up during the earliest days of our new enterprise, when we were looking to promote ourselves, and indeed still trying to define exactly what our business would undertake. With the aid of the PA, he drew out a selection of old images, some of them dating from before even he was born, showing hard-boiled private detectives with half-smoked cigarettes and snub-nosed revolvers.
"People love the retro look," he said, when we appeared dubious, "And they will remember it, too."
And he was right. The clothes Selene and I now put on consisted of a floor-length coat with a high collar in dark-colored Letherz(TM) that glistened in some lights as if rain was sleeting off it, over a short skirt in the same material and a tight-fitting sleeveless shirt in stretchy black fabric, and finished with an old-fashioned hat of a kind I believe is called a trilby.
Side by side, we stood with our hands on our waists, coats unbelted and flowing loose, and admiring each other -and ourselves - in the large mirror the automation has so thoughtfully provided for our use.
The AL-EX Project (ALternative EXistence) is my first foray into light science fiction, written under the name of C M Donaldson (my real name) with a tale that tells of what happens when our main character aims to explore the dream state and manipula
Heaven sent us an angel. She could be your neighbor. Her friends call her Megan, but when her eyes are glowing, everyone calls her Ember Reign.
Megan Martin was an average teenager. She felt cheated when her grandfather died and grandmother
Strange bones found on a storm-swept Florida beach take a couple into the sub-Atlantic base of a secret government lab. Transgenic global preparation is threatening to erupt in the devil's triangle with supernatural forces.
