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30 May 2020 4 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
Hi Friends, In the first part of the story, I explained the genesis of how and why the story was written. You can read about in Part 1 here The story discusses one of the key events of Russian history of the 14th century. Just to remind you, that at...
28 May 2020 4 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
Hi Friends, In one of those “finish the story” contests where I participated was chosen an excerpt from Phillip Dick's novel was chosen as the starting prompt. Thus the story that you are about to read is my attempt to wrap my own story around this e...
26 May 2020 4 minute read 3 comments mgaft1
Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4 Morgan’s voice goes more down from her usual timbre, “Why are they keeping you in the same accommodation with men?” “As if this makes any difference, sweetheart,” Loran lowers her head and half-closes them with her hand in...
25 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Part 1Part 2Part 3 “Come on Adam. Don’t be annoying. That …”, she pushed his hand away, “isn’t going to score you points.” “Ok, ok. I am not asking you anything.” Storsky rolls to his back and fixes his gaze at the point on the ceiling. Softy ...
24 May 2020 5 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Part 1Part 2 “Exactly. So why do we keep vamps around? To test the quality of the artificial blood.” Berman now looks directly at Storsky. “So you, young man, is going to ‘draw vamps’ blood.” Storsky’s head jerks back but then he smiles, “That’s p...
23 May 2020 15 minute read 0 comments Kirilum
He’s there again. I can hear him before I even look. It’s been two years that I’ve walked past this man playing the same tired old tune. The notes come out his strangled trumpet like shrill screams. The only time he’s gone is when it rains. Day after...
23 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
He is our CEO. Then I will give you a walk through the barn. That is … what we call a “Barn” Kuhn showed the double quote sign in the air. Technical terms for it is a vivarium. Follow me. I will take you to Mr. Berman’s office.” Part 1 The inte...
19 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Cryptotexty
The last crypto conference which I attended before the quarantine was "Blockchain Economy" in February 2020 in Istanbul (Turkey). That time coronavirus was already a trending topic, but only a few countries implemented some additional measures. I was...
6 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Cryptotexty
A minute of poetry... Many years ago I used to write poetry. I even published 2 poetry books. Second one which was published in 2013 with the circulation of 1000 copies. Many friends whom I knew back then from literature circles told that it's a big...
30 Apr 2020 3 minute read 2 comments ramonoropeza
We are in the year 2000 and my mother works at the Compañía Anónima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV for its Spanish acronym). She works as a telecommunications technician at that company. She has been during its privatization and nationalizati...
