Please contact a local vendor for replacement parts. After initial calibration is complete, eye units will open. Press the purple button under the tongue again to begin “Pre-Mourning: Bonding Mode.” …

That all came together in an image that I had of a magical market vendor taking pieces of sellers’ hearts. Was this story a particularly challenging one to write?

The vendor considers me and seems to make up his mind. “By your accent I take it you’re not a local?” I nod. “Away from home to find a pool of tranquility in this chaotic world?” “Something like that,” I say. …

“We aim to be your one-stop shop for all souvenir goods—no need to go from vendor to vendor when you can get it all with one easy contract!” “Please excuse us,” I said, and stepped around him.

Strike up a conversation with the vendor, say something like, Now that I’ve got months and months stuck at home, I’ve been thinking of experimenting with my garden too.

Thus, the magician who was going to instruct you would be not so much a donor as a vendor. No doubt that’s a preference that’s informed by my own experiences as a student and a teacher.

When she’s following Calam, she lifts a memory trace from a roadside vendor. How deeply will such memory recordings be coloured by the individual’s own biases and interpretations?

The AI vendor offered to grow them a cannibal special if they provided a bit of helix; Schorr pretended to gnaw at Default’s arm. Sitting on a curb, counting each others’ pox.

Thus, the magician who was going to instruct you would be not so much a donor as a vendor. In June 2012 (Issue 25) Read Buy eBook Direct (ePub/Mobi/PDF) Amazon (Kindle) Barnes & Noble (Nook) …

He wore “homemade” band-shirts; did Music Appreciation reports on “indie” singles he downloaded from “pirate” sites; wore street-vendor styles that had been mass-produced—sans label—by DKNY’s …