Oh No, Not Again (short story)

Oh No, Not Again was the first story in the anthology In Time.

Plot
Dave Stone returns to his penthouse to find that Chastity Dare has broken in. She warns him that the Matraxas-Breed Consortium hired her to plant incriminating evidence because of his notes on Bernice Summerfield, but she reneged on the deal. They escape when cyborgs burst in and, for ten years, Dave lives in hiding as performer Miguella Santonini.

After one of Miguella's songs, The Maracas in Caracas, gains success in a former Soviet republic, Dave is taken there to perform. One night, he notices that a section of bricks in the apartment has suddenly aged and finds randomly-censored notes behind them. The notes concern an adventure that Benny had in the Dyson sphere of Sylvana, where she had been sent to investigate the humaniform plant inhabitants, the Sylvanians. She was attended by Nialla and was increasingly attracted to her, later having sex and somehow getting her pregnant.

Chastity drops in and tells Dave that the cyborgs have found him. He is unable to finish the story, but is determined to resolve any unanswered questions so long as he escapes. His writings about his story end mid-sentence.

Characters

 * Dave Stone
 * Chastity Dare
 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Nialla

Worldbuilding

 * Dave has a collection of Fabergé Christmas crackers.
 * Dave's notes on Benny's life attracted the attention of the Futurity Department of the dreaded Matraxas-Breed Consortium. The leaders work in the Reticulated Escutcheon Chamber.
 * Dave was in a collision with a cargo vessel off the coast of Portmeirion.
 * Sylvana is a Hollow World.
 * Nialla has sex with Bernice and immediately falls pregnant.

Continuity
to be added