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AI again

10 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  We reached Austin the next day after staying in some cattle baron’s, or oil baron’s mansion in west Texas. It was over a century old and finely furnished, a strange place to find in what I would call a near desert of arid flatlands, stretching eve...

Blessings

7 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Memories I was still hopeful that Sarah would miss us and rejoin our group as soon as we returned her way. Juliet was now in her third trimester and so our numbers were increasing, not the opposite. As the drive was a long one, with Ted at the whe...

Chapter Three

7 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments HavokWAR

Chapter 3   In the heart of the digital realm, the symphony of personas stood at the precipice ofrevelation. The enigmatic guide's words echoed through the corridors of theirconsciousness, a cryptic reminder of the choices that lay ahead.*Whispers of...

Time

5 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  It was sad to admit that our fragile expedition was now reduced by one, lessened, diminished in its potential. I felt myself responsible for this as a leader but as the five of us set out for Austin I sat in the back seat of the limo mulling over...

Majestic instancy

2 Jan 2024 3 minute read 2 comments Diomedes

  It was an oriental drama, an almost perverse scene, Babylon, and this was in daylight. Who knows what it was by night, as she’d been absent from our sleeping quarters the last three, without explanation. It was like when Alexander first broke the...

Chapter Two

1 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments HavokWAR

Chapter Two   Amidst the virtual expanse, the symphony of personas pressed onward, their unity an unbreakable shield against the encroaching shadows. As they traversed the uncharted pathways, fragments of memory and purpose began to resurface, a mosa...

Omnipotence

31 Dec 2023 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes

  We roamed the facility the next morning, ignoring the visor-clad, human droids as they went about their chores. We found everything just as we had left it until we came to the far end of the basement. There we saw a dead robot lying on an operatin...

Phoenix

30 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Sedona We set out again, the four of us along with June, at Ted’s insistence, and Juliet, this time in a limousine for a comfortable ride. Juliet had to be carried to her seat. We were still missing critical parts to her hip joints, and she would...

Symbiosis

29 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Sarah and Hannah had to review all the files that were now implanted in their heads on how to remove the uterus and ovaries’. One of our own women wanted a hysterectomy because of the incessant pains after her second child born this year. The timi...

Juliet

27 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

I resume my unfinished novel, after a long intermission caused by a string of unforeseeable sublunary vicissitudes.   We spent the next months at Juliet’s bedside, now wheeled into our laboratory, designing an embryonic sac that could gestate a huma...