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1 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I forced myself that next dinner to ask Ted about the progress of his stun gun experiments on the robotic parts we retrieved and reactivated, much to his surprise. He'd been working with Sheila and Hanna daily on this project as if it were the mos...
1 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I suppose you can call me an equitable and peace loving man. I never wanted to return harm with more harm. I never desired a fight. My own history shows that when the troubles began I chose flight over fight, hiding in the woods for so many years,...
30 Sep 2023 3 minute read 2 comments JaynieLea
I can remember how sweaty my palms were as I approached the front of the classroom, fearing the grip on my hamster cage was simply going to give way, and convinced that all the rehearsing my mom and I had done about my furry little friend and I over...
30 Sep 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Over the following weeks we continued our grim talks on how to annihilate our enemy. It was never a pleasant conversation and everyday seemed even more depressing and hopeless as we realized their insurmountable advantages. I mentioned that in any...
30 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Does it hurt? Just take it slow. Can you hear leaves rustling in the wind's gentle flow? And the soothing touch of tree-shaded reprieve? In these pictures alone, feelings may deceive, Yet sometimes, that's all we need to know. Does it hurt? I und...
30 Sep 2023 4 minute read 0 comments VitalyTennant.com
Some say that the flowery prose for which Charles Dickens is so famous is because they thought he was paid by how much he wrote. As an entrepreneur, you are not paid by the word or the line or the page. You are paid by the sale or by the membership o...
29 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In a few months' time every member of our tribe, even the children over five, had bands on their heads, the filaments slowly lengthening and weaving through our minds, connecting to thousands more synapses every day. It gave each of us a fresh fee...
29 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Hanna HHH
Officer Mahsa occupied her chair at the surveillance command center, her eyes locked onto the relentless, pulsating red beacon on one of the screens. Beside her, Officer Kian was engaged in the ritual of pouring a steaming cup of coffee, his demean...
28 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The four of us, Ted, Hanna, Sarah and I spent many more weeks in our lab dissecting every component of Pandora's goggles over and over again til we felt confident that we understood the functionality of every piece. We viewed all the data bases of...
28 Sep 2023 5 minute read 0 comments dotMatrix
Thursday 28th September 2023 07:30 - I arrive early at my departure station, as usual the dimness of the morning light coupled with the low hanging cloud means there are very few of us who stand on the platform awaiting the train. I check the train...
