I miss having Jupiter in the sky ( Read more... )

The universe is full of life but we’re the aberration ( Read more... )

We’re not part of the circle of life ( Read more... )

When all you have for dinner are the shadows on your plate, you realize that relying on companies to feed you was a mistake. Some of us don’t have any blood left but we’re still going to work. Those of us that have bought into the railroad boxcar cattle market workplace and voluntarily put the yoke of mortgage and loan around our own necks know ( Read more... )

The creature standing in the white house oval office was quite tall and seemed to be made of flexible wood. Glowing holes dotted its body. It didn’t seem to have a circulatory system. It did have eyes and a mouth but they gave the distinct impression of being put there for our benefit. Right now, the eyes and mouth were facing my direction ( Read more... )

“It must be because they have such a short life,” chittered the softly glowing centipede pilot, easing back on the throttle near the viewscreen as it maintained a discreet distance from the planet. “With almost no time to experience life, the need to see life end must be strong. Why else would they kill? They seem quite bent on it and quite good ( Read more... )

I picture an office full of dancing bears kept at their desks by the memory of chains that are no longer needed. Clown noses bobbing in their hot chocolate, humming circus music to themselves as they debug spreadsheets and enter data, claws filed to blunt nubs so they can work the keyboards. It’s unnatural to see a bear sitting in a chair. It’s ( Read more... )

This was the punishment chamber. They called it the ‘wish list’. The new multiverse viewer made it possible to view into alternate dimensions. A search engine had been set up to map these infinite possibilities. You could enter ‘cancer cure’ or ‘faster than light drive’ and see what came up. The holographic display would light up around you, ( Read more... )

There was a minimum of 42 parameters to create a viable world simulation. The maximum was infinite. In this class, the basic 42 were used to give the students a feel for it. Questions were best answered in this way. The larger philosophical questions were easiest to answer by creating these worlds ( Read more... )

Built by the bearded. I have the heart of a butler. Let’s ravage the moon together. Let’s speak the language of fire alarms to the bird-gatherers. Let’s heat-vent the brick chimneys and fool them into thinking that rain is love. We’ll enjoy lizard-skin purses on the Riviera with no one the wiser. I have a suitcase full of Christmas stocking ( Read more... )