Walking Storm
Maybe the imperials had been practicing genocide on the garrighol, or something like it. concentration camps, even. maybe experimentation. iri felt a tingle shoot down his tail at that thought.
Medicine
He'd gotten a cold or something like it not a week before, and now and then, it annoyed his throat enough to engender a significant reaction.
Held In Captivity
You've been asleep, or something like it, for four days now." "geez, really!?" he burst out. actually, that wasn't too much of a shock. it had actually felt even longer when he was first waking up. she nodded.
Owner Operator: a caregivers story
or something like it. i tucked it into a "routine" message for cgc yatori station. i also beamed a copy of it back at new atlanta, mars. either way, caregivers would know tracey was on her way back and why.
The Adventures of Amelia (Earhart) Robinson - A MORFS Tale
Gatorade - or something like it - gushes into my mouth and i swallow. i've never liked the taste (still don't) but i can feel my energy coming up, and i can start to think a little better. i drink some more.
The Wicked Woods Anthology
or something like it. anything was possible if they fucked hard enough. that haunting howl sounded like it'd been run through several layers of audio processing, more artificial than natural.
Twokinds: Full House
That somehow gave nick an in to normalcy, or something like it. he grinned. "figured it out, huh?" keith stuck his tongue out again. "more or less. natani thought it might have been the king, but i gave you the edge. even if you _were_ dead." the king?
The Change [A New World 3]
Magic or something like it exists. the whole world is turned on its edge. i should be having a panic attack or doing the whole "pinch me, i'm in a dream" thing but i'm not. this is real.
The Zoo: The story so far (incomplete, but probably worth it)
The whole floor seemed to be made of smartmatter, or something like it. he struggled, pushing against it with his hands, but they immediately became stuck too. he felt the matter of the floor pressing about his entire lower body, soft, yet implacable.
Alliance of Conspiracy
It (or something like it) even existed on earth too from archaeological studies, but had been extinct for thousands of years. another planet it was extinct on was canisius. good chance this ship did not resupply in either the terran or canis sectors.
27 Ounces: A Story of Eight And One Half Ponies
or something like it. how could we find out?" sandcastle began searching around the area of the desk. "hey! we can just look it up on the hypernet. we have a terminal here, so, lets use it!" summer stared at sandcastle for a moment.
Fallotter: The Story of James Grayson
When i actually recalled my lessons, i remembered needing a screwdriver or something like it to help in turning the lock, since the bobby pin was too weak to turn it on its own.