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Submitted to Contest #296
In the not-too distant future, a moment in history nearly identical to every other moment in history bears witness to the fresh inequities of legislation exacerbated by intangible digital currencies. Citizens might be sentenced to prison terms for the crime of being in possession of a shopping cart. Municipalities transform wary strangers into law breakers for seizing a nap in public spaces. The poor are uniquely responsible for wasting the limited resources of the planet’s richest nation.An unlikely champion emerges from within a classic gr...
Submitted to Contest #287
Nearly transparent flesh loosely draped over sinewy tendons, bulging veins and arthritic knuckles deftly saw a small branch laden with the fuzzy-pink blooms of the Mimosa tree Althea rooted from a cutting some twenty years before. Well after she’d gone bonkers. Some called it paranoid. Flowers blast off in their array of tricks maintaining pollinators’ addiction to their lustful scheme. Bumbles clumsily boop into sex organs, joyfully drunk on the blobs of pollen clinging to their legs. Dark times call for happy medicine. A neighbor passing ...
Submitted to Contest #279
The remote southeastern Alaska village on a small island had been entirely spared the hardships of the Pacific siege that was laying waste to the supply chain of North America. On the mainland, society was eating itself in a perplexing violent bid to acquire material items the people here contentedly live without.The ocean provides hardship, and bounty. Among the richest waters on the planet are the cold waters along the Pacific Northwest. The kelp highway. An ancient foodie route where exploration, migration and colonization was guided by o...
Submitted to Contest #278
The responding officer’s summary of the incident was as follows:LEOs arrived on scene at the Highway 42 truck stop at 0715. Victim reported theft. Victim produced security footage and identified employee Starla Moore, closing shift employee as suspect. Suspect’s address is listed as 1700 S. Harbor Rd. Ms. Moore was located with Chick’a’liscious merchandise in her possession. It’s a long way up from the bottom. Then, the bottom falls out.BiPolar, a slew of personality disorders – if you can name a psychological unbalance in Starla’s...
Submitted to Contest #276
Totality lasted four minutes and fifteen seconds. International peace warriors, hippies, crust-punks, road dogs, hobos, Natives, locals and hillbillies would converge in the Ouachita National Forest in southeastern Oklahoma to pray for peace during this well-advertised total solar eclipse event. The collaborators from several counter-culture communities built the Heartfire on top of a clear-cut hill for a maximum viewing experience situated far from the primitive camps along dirt logging roads. Super-Happy Funtime Camp was nearly a mile bey...
You’d think simply being among the Donner Party’s survivors would be enough to inspire a person to find a quiet little farmhouse in a small community with fertile soil where nothing much happens and a person could put down roots. Not so for Martha who was 8-years-old when her family and others experienced now infamous hardships, tragedy and cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The echoes from passed-down visions of untapped opportunity and unlimited adventure that inspired their family to set forth on that fateful journey have neve...
Submitted to Contest #89
Three commercial astronauts sit ready in the simulator standing by for the final launch sequence one last time before tomorrow’s big show. They’re among the first who are supposed to be making regular trips to and from nearby asteroid mining space-rigs. They set the bar for all future efforts. The simulator is an exact replica of the real thing. Command can see the astronauts in their seats on a monitor, face shields down and ready to rumble. The rest of the essential crew of engineers, coders, traffic control and operators can hear the in...
Submitted to Contest #88
It must be another full moon, new moon, equinox, birth, death, successful bowel movement, or any given Tuesday’s witching hour. They’re in the Faerie Ring. Again. They’ll go to the Faerie Ring for anything. It’s like catnip to cats for them. They can’t get enough!All they talk about is Faerie Ring this and Faerie Ring that. How cool it is inside the Faerie Ring.“It’s just a stupid circle of fungus. Can’t be THAT great,” I think to myself as I sulk by hoping to go unnoticed. Not my lucky night.A handful of Fairies were beatboxing when Nixy no...
Submitted to Contest #85
Jerry, the owner of the last “restaurant,” is in a current state of embracing his alcoholism. He maintains the open/closed hours of the old fountain building. The few dollars he makes from his regulars each morning keep the beast fed. Most everyone else steers clear of the joint. This is the sort of place where “used to” is a word in the local dialect. Pronounced ustah, like “yous-ta.” Ustah is a mantra. Out of habit, or loneliness, or both; the same half dozen aging fellas show up to this sad hovel every morning, except Tuesdays when Jerr...
Submitted to Contest #83
No matter what anybody said at the time, we were all ready to party hard. Many of us had spent lockdown preaching and raving about the impending climate doom and a heck of a lot about how materialism and selfishness are the root of all our American woes. We spent nearly two years fully intending to emerge as better, more environmentally responsible and economically equitable inhabitants of Earth. To be fair. The collective “we,” almost did okay until we remembered how much fun it is to experience music and art with lots of other people! ...
Submitted to Contest #82
TERA (Technically Emotionally Ready Android) was an early attempt at creating an adaptable AI concerned with fitting into human social situations. The idea being that the more human-like interactions are with any robot the more at ease people become and are willing to authentically engage with it. The tragic mistake that took place during TERA’s trial interaction study, and her daily journal observations, set the entire Artificial Intelligence industry back by decades as opponents referenced this instance in every article, hearing and mee...
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