Ah! A Nano Bath!

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Aug/Sept 2010
Vol. IX No. 1   ISSN: 1545-3650
 

AlienSkin Magazine®
Published Bi-Monthly Online

 
 

~ Gulf Coast, Approximately ~ ~ by Mark Evans, Qatar
t washed up with the oil slick ~ all teeth, tentacles, and the limbs of missing sailors.

 

 

~ Shadow Cloth ~ ~ by Robert William Shmigelsky, British Columbia, Canada
Long, dark ~ wrought of star, cosmic dust: threaded and woven out of the cosmic machine.

 
 


Featured Fiction
Ah! A Nano Bath!

by Ryan Bodine  ©2010

A nano bath hurts so, so good.  Those little buggers eat toenail fungus, pimples, scar tissue, tooth cavities . . .

They programmed mine to eat all the hair follicles I didn't want any more. After 15 minutes my body was full of more holes than Swiss cheese.

I could feel the jello gliding across the raw vacancies where minutes before had been tonsils, seeping in and munching the calluses on my eyeballs, the wax deep within my ears.

They gobbled up the calcium on my joints and the old red meat in my intestine.  When that nano jello turned from green to brown I knew they were having a satisfying, microscopic poop of all my previous defects.

I love those little nanos.  They were all flushed away and the silver jello nanos filled the holes with silicon.  Now I glitter in the sun. A proud advertisement for a good old nano bath.

~ Ryan Bodine, Japan  ©2010

Ryan lives in Japan. He practices kendo (Japanese swordsmanship), and treasures his collection of Cordwainer Smith.

 
 

 

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