by Aston, Tom
“Keep walking around, Justine,” said Serge.
He went to his desk and opened up a laptop. The Money looked rather bored.
“So tell me, did you see the James Bond film, “Die Another Day”?” Serge asked.
The Money shook his head.
“That’s a shame, because it might have helped. He had a car that could become invisible. It had tiny cameras along each side, with a corresponding projector on the opposite side of the car. So when James Bond hit the switch, the image from behind the car was projected forward, making it invisible.”
The Money shrugged and looked confused.
Serge pressed some buttons on the laptop and the Money gasped. It was the first time Justine had heard him make a noise. He was staring at her. She looked down at the dress and saw why – her body had disappeared.
The Money recovered his cynical snarl.
“So you made an invisibility cloak. But I can still see her head.”
Serge pressed some more buttons on the laptop.
“Well that is just one thing that this dress can do, but it’s not the real selling point. If I can make you see nothing then I can make you see anything!”
The Money rolled his eyes impatiently.
“If I choose to project Justine’s body as that of Angelina Jolie, then I can do that.”
He pressed a button with a flourish.
This time Justine gasped. She looked down to see the kind of body that she had always dreamed of. It wasn’t hers of course, but just for a moment she was prepared to believe that it might be. Hello-boys breasts that pushed out over a tiny waist. Hips that flared provocatively. And the dress that she was wearing, where had that come from? It was a shimmer fabric that hugged the curves as if she’d been misted with water. She looked up and saw the Money ogling her. She blushed. Even though she knew he wasn’t ogling her own body it was impossible not to feel that he was.
Serge cleared his throat gently.
“So, you see what it is I have done? I can give to women what they most desire. I can let them change their body as they want to. I am in the course of plotting Marilyn Monroe’s vital statistics into the computer, but they can be as curvy or as skinny as they want to be. They can also change their outfits to be anything that they can think of.”
Serge clicked his mouse and Justine was wearing a wedding dress. He clicked again and she was wearing a demure trouser suit. He clicked a third time and she was wearing the skimpiest bikini she had ever seen.
“Hey!” she shouted, seeing the lecherous smile on the Money’s face.
Serge clicked hurriedly and changed Justine into a 1960’s Austin Powers mini dress with platform boots.
As she looked at herself and walked slowly around the room, Serge put his arm around the Money’s shoulders and led him gently away, seeing that he was going to get no reaction while he was transfixed by Justine’s curves. Serge indicated the view from the window where the sun was setting across the city.
“Do you see what we have here? This is so huge that I can barely imagine it myself. No woman will ever want to wear normal clothes when she has seen what this can do. I have never met a woman who is happy with her body. Even the ones that look great to me have some tiny thing that they worry about. So we sell them the dress, and we sell them the service of programming the changes that they want.”
Justine was grateful that the two of them were distracted. She studied herself in the mirror. Her haircut suited the style of the dress. She would never have even looked at clothes like this, but here she was wearing them! She felt as though her life had been changed in the last five minutes. She walked over to see what was on the laptop. There were icons showing the different outfits. It looked so easy to use.
Serge was still talking.
“And it doesn’t end there! Fashions change all the time. Women crave variety and individuality in their attire. We can release software for a ready to wear line. They can download those from the internet and we won’t even need a point of sale. And maybe we can even return to the golden days of couture. It can be more attainable because the work will be done by computer programmers instead of seamstresses, and the client doesn’t even need have to have fittings! There are so many ways that we can sell this to the world.”
The Money was nodding and looking slightly animated. Justine imagined he didn’t often get that way. Serge seemed to be encouraged by his response.
“The technology is fairly expensive right now, but I know we can drive down the costs with the sort of demand that we’re going to get. This prototype here is the only one I have at the moment, and it cost me as much as a semi in Solihull.”
Justine sighed at that. The chances of her owning a dress like this were nil. She really wanted to enjoy it for a little while longer.
But this was the only one. She looked down at it again, and considered the laptop in front of her. She could borrow it for a little while and then give it back. It would be helpful research for Serge. She quietly closed the laptop and picked it up. Serge was still making expansive gestures over the rooftops. It had to be now. Justine padded quietly from the room and then scuttled down the stairs without looking back.
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Contents
Chapter 1 - 4:04pm 21 March, San Jose, California
Chapter 2 - 9:15 am 27 March, West Fleet, England
Chapter 3 - 9:35am 27 March, West Fleet, England
Chapter 4 - 11:24am 27 March, Faculty Building, West Fleet University, England
Chapter 5 - 28 March, Cathay Pacific Flight CX250, London to Hong Kong
Chapter 6 - 9:30am 3 March, San Francisco, California
Chapter 7 - 12:15pm 29 March - Chep Lap Kok International Airport, Hong Kong
Chapter 8 - 8:30pm 28 March - Special Circumstances Training Facility, Southern California
Chapter 9 - 2:25pm 29 March - Mong Kok, Hong Kong
Chapter 10 - 6:14pm 29 March - Mong Kok, Hong Kong
Chapter 11 - 7:08pm 29 March - Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Chapter 12 - 7:20pm 29 March - Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Chapter 13 - 8:12pm 29 March - Zhonghua Hotel, Central, Hong Kong
Chapter 14 - 8:55pm 29 March - Zhonghua Hotel, Central, Hong Kong
Chapter 15 - 3:42am 30 March - Kowloon, Hong Kong
Chapter 16 - 4:05am 30 March - Hong Kong
Chapter 17 - 4:02pm 29 March - Special Circumstances Training Facility, Southern California
Chapter 18 - 7:54am 30 March - Old Bailey Prison, Hong Kong Island
Chapter 19 - 5:02pm 30 March - San Francisco, California
Chapter 20 - 9:45am 31 March - Old Bailey Prison, Hong Kong Island
Chapter 21 - 10:20am 31 March - Zhonghua Hotel, Hong Kong
Chapter 22
Chapter 23 - 12:10pm 30 March – Zhonghua Hotel, Hong Kong
Chapter 24 - 10:15am 30 March - Los Angeles, California
Chapter 25 - 8:02am 1 April - Hung Hom, Hong Kong
Chapter 26 - 9:40am 1 April - Hung Hom, Hong Kong
Chapter 27 - 7:05pm 31 March Special Circumstances Training Facility, Southern California
Chapter 28 - 12:40pm 1 April - Hung Hom, Hong Kong
Chapter 29 - 10:50pm 2 April – Pudong International Airport, Shanghai, China
Chapter 30 - 12:04pm 2 April - Shanghai, China
Chapter 31 - 3:14pm 2 April - Shanghai, China
Chapter 32 - 7:43pm 2 April - ShinComm Factory City, Shanghai, China
Chapter 33 - 9:26pm 2 April - Shanghai, China
Chapter 34
Chapter 35 - 3:56am 3 April - Shanghai, China
Chapter 36 - 10:45am 3 April - Shanghai, China
Chapter 37 - 7:05pm 2 April - Mountain View, California
Chapter 38 - 1:15pm 6 April - Shuangliu International Airport, Chengdu, China
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hapter 39 - 3:18pm 6 April Chengdu, China
Chapter 40 - 3:55pm 6 April Chengdu, China
Chapter 41 - 5:35pm 6 April Chengdu, China
Chapter 42 - 8:42pm 6 April - Chengdu, China
Chapter 43 - 1:05am 7 April Chengdu, China
Chapter 44 - 8 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 45 - 5:36pm 8 April - Shanglan Monastery, Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 46 - 9:54am 9 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 47 - 11:56pm 9 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 48 - 3:11am 10 April - Shanglan Monastery, Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 49 - 8:04pm 10 April - Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Chapter 50 - 4:34pm 10 April – United Flight 857, San Francisco to Shanghai
Chapter 51 - 9:04am 12 April - Hongqiao International Airport, Shanghai, China
Chapter 52 - 1:07pm 12 April – Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 53 - 1:19pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 54 - 3:17pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 55 - 3:17pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 56 - 5:17pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 57 - 9:19pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 58 - 10:03pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 59 - 11:57pm 12 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 60 - 9:15am 13 April - Balong Polo and Country Club Resort, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 61 - 11:10am 13 April - Balong Polo and Country Club Resort, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 62 - 5:06pm 13 April - Balong Polo Resort and Country Club, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 63 - 5:14pm 13 April - Balong Polo and Country Club Resort, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 64 - 6:07pm 13 April - Balong Polo and Country Club Resort, Zhejiang Province, China
Chapter 66 - 12:54am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 67 - 3:34am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 68 - 6:54am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 69 - 7:44am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 70 - 8:06am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 71 - 9:23am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 72 - 10:57am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 73 - 11:31am 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 74 - 12:36pm 14 April - Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Chapter 75 - 11:34am 15 April - Shanglan Monastery, Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Iain Grant
Clovenhoof - Prologue
Chapter 1 - Clovenhoof meets the locals
A Gateway Made Of Bone by Iain Grant
A Gateway Made Of Bone
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