John Jacob

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2023

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“CIA Patsy Lee ” by John Jacob

Zios may call this anti-Semitic, but I prefer edgy sci-fi.  The weekend my world changed, our teachers quit classes early, took us to church & all went home. I can still smell ink from newspapers I carried Saturday & saw a man killed in police custody on live TV Sunday. "They shot Oswald!" I yelled to my folks incredulously.  President Kennedy, a US Navy WW2 combat veteran, saw urgent need to de-escalate arms & space races post Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis, yet barking war hawks & racist religious bigo...

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“Yogi Spacetime Travel, Part 2 ” by John Jacob

"We need to stop & think for a bit on what this discussion is about. It is not so much about time travel as it is about your mind; that thing that has a dedicated, hard-lined connection to the Universe/Source/God. In Australian aboriginal culture is the notion of Dreamland. Dreamland is according to tradition, the ancient place where (the) God(s) dreamed our world into reality." "God created us in the Image of God. That image is nothing short of a CREATOR. Maybe you knew that, maybe you didn’t. But I bet my favourite T-shirt that you n...

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“Yogi Spacetime Travel, Part 1 ” by John Jacob

In UH-Mānoa's Sinclair & Hamilton library nooks are a replica of the Rosetta Stone, Mesoamerican codices & countless Polynesian treasures.  "Uh-hey Boo-Boo, you wanna travel through time?" "Uhh... I don't think that's a good idea, Yogi...": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel Travel in spacetime for most people is understandably limited. Most of us just have 2 legs & 1 brain. Our legs can only take us over land & from 0 up to 28 mph. "Humans could perhaps run as fast 40 mph, a new study suggests. Such a feat ...

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“JFK - My Favorite President ” by John Jacob

Anyone easily offended would best avoid my work. I can vividly recall Dominican Sister Catherine of Siena interrupting Friday class to herd us over to St. Thomas Church for impromptu prayer. Was school done for the week then? That I don't know, but it's hard to imagine anyone capable of focusing on lessons amid 11/22/1963 afternoon's tragedy.  Delivering that Saturday's Chicago newspapers was my sad job, but my customers, most of whom I never met, were very generous that Christmas. On Sunday, I sat in our basement alone, while in cus...

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“2017 Stories ” by John Jacob

Anyone who may be easily offended would best avoid my work. End Times  Long past Earth's life saga, when her ageless sages had all departed and karmic cycles had run their courses, its burnt-out cinder was engulfed by the dying red giant that had once spawned living organisms and numerous civilizations.  Still trillions of galaxies (2 by last estimate) spun and collided for eons more, producing countless stars, planets, compounds of elements, life forms, and civilizations. These too all eventually succumbed to...

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“Palolo Sleepless Stories ” by John Jacob

Singularity's Rim  SSBH-1 was detected by the James Webb Space Telescope merely months after its full deployment a million miles from Earth. Presumably a cosmic rarity, its infrared image, faint as it was, passed before a section of the Magellanic Cloud Nebula making it visible for days & shocking astronomers. It would soon enter our solar system inside of Neptune's orbit on the oblique. NASA had developed plans for generic solar system visitors after `Oumuamua & swiftly built a mission to study it up close, cal...

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“The Real Damien Thorn Resurrection ” by John Jacob

Some may find offense in my edgy sci-fi humor aimed at creepy theocratic fascism. The Omen is a 1976 film in which the antichrist character Damien Thorn 1st appears. In a yet to be done made-for-TV docudrama, The Greatest American Zero, forces align along idiolect lines. Republican rabid racist rabble zionist zealot evangelical antichristian gun nuts try to trigger Israel's nuclear war Samson Option in insane belief it'll force their long-dead savior's return. It's clear that Yahweh, Jesus & Muhammad left followers to fend fo...

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“Ant Bonanza Show, Don't Tell ” by John Jacob

US DoD classified this 1954 film sci-fi to prompt public panic. https://youtu.be/v4URRp39XOo?si=n5DJVfBF65gtzXjvPre-Spock Leonard Nimoy used logic to analyze Them. https://youtu.be/yefPZQU8Y_M?si=gaE0tvTVNnMEB1tchttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them!"Ants Can Lift up to 5,000 Times Their own Body Weight" https://entomologytoday.org/2014/02/11/ants-can-lift-up-to-5000-times-their-own-body-weight-new-study-suggests/20 quadrillion ants outnumber humans 2.5 million to 1. https://8billi...

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“Beyond” by John Jacob

Oddly enough, a title will pop into my mind unexpectedly, like a child opts to be read, except now it wants to be written so I'll wonder what it's all about. Is it life beyond death or spacetime beyond 4D? Pliant polyamory beyond mediocre marriage or sane atheism beyond inane religion?  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife https://www.cnet.com/science/features/the-general-relativity-rabbit-hole-unraveling-space-time-and-the-fourth-dimension/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00175 https://www.allure.com/story/open-marriage-stories-after-m...

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“Eons ” by John Jacob

Boyo's a time collector, specifically good times. You could say forever & not be wrong. He knows he came via artificial moon, hibernating through its exoplanetary eons-long trek. In his Vimāna TARDIS into Apsu Sol's system, the 4 Rockies were idyllic at first, Tiamat by far the largest water giant & her sisters Lahmu (Mars), Lahamu (Venus) & Mummu (Mercury). "Tiamat is the Mesopotamian goddess associated with primordial chaos & the salt sea best known from the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish. In all ...

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“Nah Jah ” by John Jacob

Near completion of his 60th Sar, Nah Jah prepared for the trek that would create his legacy. He wrapped up mundane affairs & equipped the zyvwux with all he'd need. Bittersweet parting with family, friends & colleagues was customary. At last all was done & departure drew nigh. His course laid in for a system at 2.64 parsecs he knew would be routine, quantum strangeness reactions run in a flux matrix to cancel zyvwux's mass & inertia allowing hyper light speed travel. Spacetime travel need not be long lonely boring endless slo...

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“Random Quantum Aliens, Part 2 ” by John Jacob

May be deemed anti-Semitic by ADL. Here are some abbreviated key points of mostly hidden human history as best I've been able to glean. Recorded in ancient Sumerian cosmology, advanced extraterrestrial Anunnaki 'gods' came to Earth about half-a-million years ago for gold they could atomize to shield their wayward planet Nibiru's deteriorating atmosphere. To speed up mining operations, geneticists tweaked Homo Erectus DNA by adding snippets of their own, producing prototypes Adapa and Adama. Somehow these 'gods' and their creations could i...

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“Random Quantum Aliens, Part 1 ” by John Jacob

Inter-galactic spacetime is home to utterly bizarre quantum entities, far beyond Enterprise Captains Kirk and Picard's final frontier mission, "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." "This speech began every episode of the series except the two pilot episodes: "The Cage" (which preceded Shatner's involvement) and "Where No Man Has Gone Before". It was also use...

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“My Sumer Vacation” by John Jacob

Sci-fi may be deemed pseudo-science &or space gods religion. Northern days shortened as nights lingered & TikTok Old Timer sought new blasts in the past. The DMC DeLorean got its flux flushed & recapacitated in-shop so he checked the Web for temporal anomalies.  https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Temporal_anomaly E.din Ventures wanted a Dawn of Time experienced camp consultant for 8 weeks. Perfect, he thought, imagining spinning campfire yarns on ancient, nearly eternal alien Anunnaki, said Homo sapiens sapiens gene-s...

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“Forever on the Non-Event Horizon, Part 2 ” by John Jacob

May be deemed CIA conspiracy. Lane indicated they had best leave the ring area for their hotel room in Building 39 on the surface. She decided it was best to send Alice home sooner than planned. That night Alice had trouble sleeping and got up to wander the compound, marveling at all she had experienced so far. In the square was a 2m tall bronze sculpture of Hindu Śiva Nataraja 'lord of dance'. "A special plaque next to the Shiva statue at CERN explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva’s cosmic dance with several quotations from The...

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I am a wry sci-fi fan, puzzle maven & edgy pen on O'ahu.