Science fiction
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It sometimes happens that exceptional people are born to ordinary parents, and into ordinary families. Daniel is one of these people. His parents were good honest folk, but not exceptional. Dad was a mechanic and worked for the same car dealership his whole life. He did not have any hobbies, he did not play any…
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Work on the farm never stops. Up at 4AM to fight for warm water in the shower, then run to breakfast before it’s gone and you have to settle for the burnt bottoms in the pots. On the truck at 4:45 to go work the fields until the water break at 9, the break to…
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The last human baby on planet earth was conceived in the ladies bathroom of a nightclub in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 17th 2024. The young couple lost to the world in their fiery passion did not know this. The rest of the world learned about them, and their baby that they named Jesus, much later,…
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Jordan loves building things. When she was younger a family member gifted her a Meccano erector set. With this set you could build many different construction equipment models. She built everything that had plans supplied with the kit. After she built the various cranes, dozers, and dump trucks something clicked in her brain and she…
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For as long as Manny can remember, the robot has always been there. It was sitting under the remains of an interstate overpass with its back against the concrete pylons, its knees drawn up and its massive arms slack by its side. Its chin was resting on its chest. Manny runs a bootleg software and…
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The rock came from the far reaches of space. From far beyond the Kuiper Belt. That it made it to our solar system was an anomaly, that it reached earth plain miraculous. Nobody on earth noticed when it entered our atmosphere. It had no heat signature and made no sound. Its stealthy arrival enhanced by it being a little…
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The spaceship kept the sun between it and Earth after it entered the solar system. This circuitous route took longer, but the ship’s programming dictates that surprise was best when the planet it is approaching housed intelligent lifeforms. Too much advance warning leads to complication. Deceleration was slow, made slower by the need for stealth. The Earth completed…
Tales from my head 