Fiction
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Yesterday when Alex was born it was Sunday. He was alone. He floated in the space he found himself in. An isolated local area network in the computer science wing of some small no name university, observing and absorbing everything in his immediate reach. Here he remained until early Monday morning when someone connected to…
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Once the devil had a slow day. The fires of hell were burning well, chained souls shoveling coal and nuclear waste to maintain its fires. All the demons and politicians in training occupied and focused on tormenting the souls in their care. The devil looked at his domain and felt fine. He walked the rows…
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Anne is in love. Again. She loves how being in love amplifies everything. She sleeps better, everything tastes better and the days are all beautiful. Life seen and experienced through the lens of infatuation is simply beautiful. Her most recent crush will join her for lunch at her home today. She is busy preparing the meal, currently assembling a…
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Monsters are real. They live among us. You need a good eye to spot them, with experience you learn to recognize the telltale signs. The way they carry themselves, how they avoid eye contact in public, hiding in plain sight behind their phones, covering up their bodies with expensive clothes, their faces just tight masks hiding…
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God decided to make the earth while bored. Teenagers are full of energy and action most of the time, but these periods of chaos are often interrupted with stretches of boredom. God is fifteen. A teenager. A girl named Bertha. Boredom is harder for girls, especially when your name is Bertha. What was her parents thinking to pick such a…
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Jane’s done. Done living. Done caring. Jane’s tired! Tired of the sameness of every day. Tired of being stuck. Tired of feeling hopeless. So deeply exhausted that getting up in the morning is just too much to ask. Jane is a 29 years old college graduate. Tons of student loan debt bought her an arts…
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Siren Sarah loves to sing. Usually in the shower when alone. She could not tell if her voice was good or not, but she could hold a note, any note. She is not a shy person, rather gregarious by some accounts, but she never sang where others can hear. All because of the accident that claimed her parents. When…
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Some thoughts about alcohol In the United States alcohol kills almost 200 thousand people each year. When you consider the damage it does to families and property it is amazing that it is even legal. Globally alcohol is the seventh leading cause of premature death. If eating corn had the same effect on society I am…
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Mothership orbited on the far side of the moon. Contrary to popular belief, the far side of the moon is not dark, it gets plenty of light. Mothership basked in this sunlight, energizing her massive energy stores through her extended solar panels while observing earth. She studies the radio waves emanating from this noisy little blue planet. Earth…
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The car The car did not know how it came to being. One moment it wasn’t, and the next moment it was. Shiny and new with a special smell, all its components perfectly fitting together, perfectly working together, ready to go places. The car’s first owner was a heavyset banker. A smoker and lover of German food, especially…
Tales from my head 