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22 Feb 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Diomedes $0.01
PROLOGUE I wrote this book twenty five years ago in Seattle, where I lived with my wife and child and worked as a self-employed and often unemployed electrician. That I publish it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write...
17 Feb 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Krisz Rokk $0.07
A smooth wind welcomed the new season causing leaves to dance in circles on the streets. She left the house early in the morning and made it to the train station. Spotting her favorite bench, she pulled out a little basket while whispering her dream....
12 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred $0.02
“Down to earth” is both a coming-of-age film and an alien invasion film. These two themes are not as worlds apart as we might think, because puberty, adolescence, coming -of-age is a sort of alien invasion. There are changes, alien things grow, alien...
10 Feb 2023 12 minute read 0 comments RTBreach $0.00
Vision darkening. Voices jibber-jabber. Hands clutch and grab. Grunting and speaking. Overwhelmed by the cold, it loses consciousness. The voice fades. Blackness engulfs the avatar. The craft wants to tip over. A burly man manages not to capsize it....
6 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
I was lucid again. There must have been a flaw in my chip, because this was not supposed to happen. Even in the few hours each day we appeared to be awake, to eat our food cubes and stretch and wash up, there were prompts and illusions and avata...
2 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments peerynt $0.05
[Cross-posting – the original post can be seen here.][For the grunge & alternative rock band please go here.] The Matrix deals with virtual reality, which people there, for the most part, are unaware of. It also has guns and martial arts action in it...
2 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk $0.04
He climbed the next sand dune in the hopes of spotting something green not too far away. His longing for water and human connection was blasting through his chest and begging for relief from his hyper active frontal lobe. The delirium was unbearable...
30 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments RTBreach $0.03
“What the hell happened?” Keshav, the Divine and Holy One, leaned up on one elbow from the gel bed cradling his naked, dark brown body. “Magos. Hey, what’s going on?” Focused audio transducers beamed a reply straight at Keshav’s ears. “I’m not sure,...
26 Jan 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Krisz Rokk $0.05
She was floating through the air and touching the fluffy clouds when she realized there was something very familiar to this situation. She’s been here before. Her brain didn’t recall it but the feeling couldn’t be wiped out. It was engrained in every...
23 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments RTBreach $0.01
Typically, in the beginning, there’s nothing except a lightless void-- not this time. Plenty of life teems across a world in a parallel universe. Liquid water swirls in huge oceans filled with countless sea creatures. Under the surface, near a North...
