It really all began on the green, leafy Dartmouth College campus in the lazy summer of 1956. The official story involves great academic curiosity driven to pursue the newly realized field of Artificial Intelligence–AI–but the real story is that most of that original team cannot actually remember who initiated the[…]
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Flash science fiction writing and stories.
Gathering of the Forest Gods
The Forest Gods had called a Gathering. Their loud trumpet decreed these intentions from the never-living tree trunks that they had stuck in the ground throughout the forest. These tree trunks were magical and never decayed. The Forest Gods were like that: magical. It was an official Gathering. Every bird[…]
Read moreCold-Blooded Conclusions
Human’s never really got off Earth, but they did manage to not destroy themselves for a good couple hundred years before civilisation collapsed. Another dark age would ensue. Ages would pass forgotten in the ruins that followed. Eventually, the world was unrecognisable. Nature and man having grown so close that[…]
Read moreWhile Spiral Feeds Looped…
Everyone forgets that at the start they were going to save us. Everyone forgets that in the beginning they were loved. The Earth was dying. The planet had been gutted by generations of careless, greedy men and someone had to save us. They saved us. Well, they did at first.[…]
Read moreLast Life of Leaves
In the beginning, swirling in the base primordial soup on a barren planet, chaotic elements combined and life appeared. First drifting, then swimming and then crawling from the seas, life began to slither, then walk and then fly. Some took root while others took flight and remaining took shade. Finally,[…]
Read moreTraveler: Conversation with an Old Time Traveler
“You see, the trick with Time Travel is what I call ‘The Law of Neutrality‘ that means that you can change any timeline except your own,” the old man states as if I know what he is talking about, “You can change others’ timelines because you always have changed them,[…]
Read moreTraveler: All Clock
People say that time travel will never be invented. They say that it cannot ever have been invented in the future. They say that they know this for a fact. The reason they know is that, if time travel has been invented in the future, then why have we never[…]
Read moreWhere Teleporters Go Missing
The warning on the box says safety cannot be “guaranteed”. You chuckle as you remember interviews with old, white-haired scientists telling the world this was a bad idea. There are always those that resist change, like when the aliens made contact. Many doomsayers and haters would howl about how the Wolves–named[…]
Read moreThe Mythology of More
“In the beginning, Man was quite simple. Man liked the warmth and light of the day and he feared the cold and dark of the night. Thus, there was a friendly god of the day and an evil god of the night. Man had to eat and drink, thus there[…]
Read moreConnections
She clicks the notifications as they appear on Facebook, liking, commenting and sharing items that catch her interest. But her interest is spread. She is scrolling 9gag’s hot page in the background with half of an eye on it. SoundCloud is playing through a mix by some DJ she has seen[…]
Read moreCriminal Stuck Record
“I didn’t. Did you?” “No, I thought you did–” “Well, I didn’t because I thought you did.” “Well, I didn’t either, so we’re fucked.” “Fuck!” “It’s no use now. Seriously, what are we going to do? We only had this single window to slip in here before they moved the[…]
Read moreThe Second Explorers
The jungle has its own life: dark and steamy, wet and clammy. It clings to me like a haunting, primal image that I will remember for years to come in the warm, dry and safe comfort of my home. My home that is far, far away. If I survive the jungle.[…]
Read moreTraveler: Time Shifts
Time shifts. And time shifts again. Reality snaps back like nothing changed at all. Almost nothing. Overhead cars flow like shooting stars with the neon night, dark and crisp around me. I am cold, but it is not the night air that makes me shiver. I am standing on an[…]
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