joshslater

Uber Lift

I think morphs are like CGI, you only notice the bad ones. This was such a great image I had to write a little something for it, which I guess technically makes it a caption. Then, when trying to find a high resolution version of it I discovered that it's actually a morph. And once you find out, ...

Uber Lift

I was slowly piecing together reality. We had “just one more beer”, ordered an Uber and then blacked out in the back seat. The bright light outside the car was agonizing to my hangover. Why was it al...

Non-Minkowski Space

I've been thinking about the concept of someone travelling into the future and immediately being apprehended as a threat to society because of him just being a riddled with long since cured diseases. In the process of "curing" him they would just bluntly fix things that would be considered cosmet...

Non-Minkowski Space

Human Trial #1 -00:01:00

One minute left. My mind was racing. This must have been what the first astronauts felt. Any small error and it would be over for them, only that I had it worse. This was all my invention, my design, my engineering. It was all on me. Not an army of the best and brig...

Exchange Student

Ethan: And smile!
*click*
Ethan: Good enough. I guess someone is nervous to start school tomorrow.
Brad: I should be working on my thesis, not reciting south American capitals in junior high. Ag...

Upon Reflection

It looked like parts of someones eviction. Just a scattering of junk piled up against the chest high wall along the street. A broken chair, a damp mass of cloth, possibly bed sheets that had seen better ...

Ronnie the Pool Boy

I wanted to make my own rewrite of this story as I thought the wife reaction was a bit unnatural. Sure, she might call the cop on an unknown intruder, but sooner or later she would understand it was the husband. But if she understood it right away, and then abused it, it would make for a more for...

Ronnie the Pool Boy

Ronald was excited, and more than a little aroused, as he opened the package. This should shut her up about him being ‘too old’ or ‘out of shape’ for sex, he thought as he eyed through the conten...

Paradise, AZ

“Until death do us part”, “as long as we got each other”, “love is what home feels like, if it was a person”. I always thought they sounded cheesy and naive. Don’t get me wrong, I...

Rehabilitation

Another case of not being sure what image to use. I wanted him to look young, depressed, in hi-viz gear, dirty and not yet having developed any muscles. I also was leaning towards UK, as a more plausible location for some Clockwork Orange shit, though the text pretty solidly points to US. Sure, t...

Rehabilitation

 - I’ll fucking what?!
- This is your final warning, Mr. Sullivan. One more outburst like that and I’ll hold you in contempt.
- But, your honor, how is reducing my intelligence not “crue...

Hypothetical #5

It’s impossible to miss them. The group of eight dudes being rowdy in the corner of the joint, cramming themselves around tables designed for people demanding far less space. All of them were decent lo...

Hypothetical #4

There is that nagging feeling that something is off, as you go through your normal routine coming back from work. Walking through the living room you almost miss him, as he sits completely still and sile...

Final Answer

Just before we reached the stairs he grabbed me, pulled me towards him and positioned us in the hallway. He looked into the full length mirror in the hallway.

- Hey kid, take a good, long look at u...

Mystery Malware

I realized at some point at the start of the year that discord and grindr both had icons that shared a lot. I had no idea what to do with that information, and just filed it away in the observation stora...

Mystery Malware

 WASHINGTON (Associated Reporting) - Multiple sources within the intelligence community voice concerns about the lack of public response to the ongoing cyber/psyops attack facing the nation. The sha...

Trust Fall

This was based on a story by the tumblr write collegenerdtojock. I don't like memory alterations, as I think that cheapens the impact of a transformation. I decided to write my story post transformation, whereas this one is before.

Original Story

 Coming from a pretty strict an...

Trust Fall

 - Yo.
- This is Rachel Cohen, is this Shaun West?
- Yes, mum. Stop doing this charade every time. I got the new body. I got the new identity. I got in on the diversity quota. I’m doing my c...

A Week in Indiana

This all started out in a chat where someone was trying pretty hard to get me to fly to him. I didn't really take the offer all that serious, but it was fun to think about it. What could happen? So I started to write a trip more or less how I would have planned it, and then threw in some plausibl...

A Week in Indiana

I was exhausted. It’s weird, because on long haul travel you have done nothing but relaxing. First on the initial connection, then at the airport, then at the trans-Atlantic from Amsterdam to Chicago. I even napped a bit on it. Since that flight follows the earth's rotation, you basically land ...

Heirloom Chronivac

As I stood there, unable to move, I went over the conversation in my head, over and over. There were so many things I could have done better. So many more precautions I could have taken.

- This is ...

A Night Tale

The first time was in fourth grade. As unbelievable as it sounds I don’t remember the title of the book, but it was just some library book with a bunch of scary stories. I had tingles down my spine whi...

Alan fucking Brown

Alan let out a sigh of relief as he read the text message. He’d been nervous he’d killed Jeff ever since Jeff locked himself in the gym bathroom just after lunch. The transformations are usually much...

Hypothetical #3

Already after the first Hypothetical I was afraid there wouldn't be any more. I didn't want it just to be an endless series of photos of clothes with slight variations of copy. This photo was however too intriguing for me to skip. I have more clothes set photos, but I'm not going to use them unle...

Hypothetical #3

You can see from the dim daylight that it is early. Earlier than you normally wake up. While you feel rested, you also feel hot, clammy and thirsty. You are wondering how come you woke up before the alar...

Hypothetical #2

This story was first written as someones first person experience on a commuter train. My goal with the hypothetical series is to attempt to remove as decision making as possible from me and instead present just a scenario. About one day after I published the story "Train of Thought" I realized th...

Hypothetical #2

He startles you as he plop down across the aisle. Tall, muscular, well groomed, but dressed like he didn’t expect to meet anyone he cares about. There are plenty of other seats on the train at this hou...

got skyep?

He had been almost annoyingly insistent all evening, asking my nationality, age, background, work. At first I was evasive, without lying. He was undeterred though, and kept at it. We moved over to Discord. What countries had I been to? When was I there the last time? Prodding and prodding. He was...

The Performance Review

So I did a bit of digging in old conversation logs.

I was talking with realhankmccoy in the tumblr chat when he suggested a collab. Since I like his material enough to have done a rewrite of a few of his stories, I already knew that there were areas we both liked to explore. We pretty quick...

The Performance Review

I don’t like being in the company gym, and I don’t really need to.  I’m a trim guy, if not quite dorky or nerdy, and I’m rather work-oriented.  But I know there are benefits to regular ...