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Terrorism
I nearly lost my mother to terrorism. I didn’t, but it was close. I was 7 at the time, and didn’t understand it. It took me years before I really thought about it in terms of “Terrorism.” For a long … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, Centennial Olympic Park Bombing, Crime, Current Events, Family, Government, Non-Fiction, Olympics, Philosophy, Politics, Terrorism
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The Fleet [Up the Spine]
Getting from Hab to the Spine is easy in theory. Just keep going up until you get to the doors labeled “Warning: Low Gravity Zone.” Theories are treacherous things. The gravity starts getting weaker pretty much immediately once you’re out … Continue reading
Optimal Book Placement
I was reading a book my partner gave me. It was late in the evening, they were already in bed. We had been fighting a bit, nothing huge, but a bit. Still, I had promised the other day that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Books, Depression, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Relationships
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Lonely Books
I took a train this holiday season. I know nobody really takes the train anymore unless you live in a major city East of the Mississippi (in America at least). I quite like trains though, and so when the option … Continue reading
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Tagged Aside, Books, Breaking Dawn, Literature, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Tragedy, Twilight
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Jane’s War (part 3)
The extraction took seven hours. Much quicker than Jane had expected. Accessing military implants was no easy task. Any wrong move could set off the sensors meant to detect tampering and slag the implant, which usually made the extraction a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fascism, Horror, Mystery, Private Wars, Sci-Fi, Short Story, Surveillance, Worldbuilding
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Living Outside the Kingdom
Imagine, if you will, that you could build a human from scratch. Molecule by molecule, assembling each cell individually. Imagine if you could do this, and when the process was done, you had a viable human. A living breathing human … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Futurism, Genetics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Sci-Fi, Science
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Jane’s War (part 2)
Jane examined her tools. They were hers, not just whatever was in surplus. Somebody had gone up to the dormitories and taken her tools from her belongings. Jane had to remind herself that it was a breach of her privacy. … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror, Mystery, Private Wars, Sci-Fi, Short Story, Surveillance, Worldbuilding
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Jane’s War (part 1)
Jane (23.2.120.3) flexed her new fingers. It wasn’t her first artificial limb, she already had a replacement leg from the knee down. But she never thought much about the responsiveness or flexibility of her leg. It simply wasn’t something she … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror, Mystery, Private Wars, Sci-Fi, Short Story, Surveillance, Worldbuilding
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News!
So the site was down for about two weeks, but we’re back now. Took the time to get some more writing done and think about where I’m going with this site, my writing, and other things. New story will be … Continue reading
One Star Soup Kitchen
I saw a one star review of a soup kitchen. The existence of such a review says so much before I even read the content. I didn’t question why the review existed, because of course it did. It is everything … Continue reading →