From The Seduction of Emy and Other Stories

Copyright 2023 A. R. Gregory

 

Wang's App for Blue Balls

Astra kisses Blade one last time as his tall, muscular body fades away. Blade, so sure of himself, sure of everything, and now, so sure about them. Is his decisiveness even the thing about him that best complements her? Except maybe for her work, is she that sure about anything?

She glances back around Xanadalia, at its babbling brooks, its lush vegetation, and the bluest skies imaginable, and all of it so realer-than-real. So now their private mindworld isn’t enough for Blade anymore? Meet him realworld, he said? In physical, imperfect, chancy real world...?