The Good, the Bad, and the Zombie
The Zombie appreciated the flies. No waste there. Committed to the carnage. Fully alive. The Zombie didn’t believe that of its companions.
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meta
Soon metaMarilyn would be colonized and the rush would be on to find the next big thing. The next unspoiled dream. Was there such a thing?
Dark Matters
I read a tale once about a kitchen imp in Warsaw who knew a word that would set the world afire.
not a sequel
You should’ve seen that kid’s eyes light up with possibilities. It was like being at the very start of creation. A Big Bang moment.
Presence
Only an old scrub like me would want to boot it up, which is what I did. Damn mistake. Big damn mistake.
workflow
Let your ambitions, your desires, your dreams go. They're nothing but waste. Heat waste.
absence of evidence is not evidence of absinthe
“You are suffering from all the hallmarks of pycnodysostosis: fragile bones, short stature, large head, weak chin. Were you never...
Bait
Entropy is fine for those who prefer calm waters. Me? Get me to the center of a galaxy, the edge of the event horizon, to cast my line.
To Our Own Devices
You’ll not be talking to the likes of Maxwell’s demon in these here parts. We’re plain demon folk that plots our mischief as it pleases us.
Ascetica
Mortification of the flesh transforms, they believed. And their coding proved it. They became more flame than flesh.
atop
You see some funny things at altitude. Up near the pass on an afternoon when low clouds raked the peaks, I was leaned against my knapsack...
Nightfell
The spreading vapor blotted out the stars and enveloped the coast. A dark silence followed, until the wailing began.
combustible
We build. We burn. We propagate. We incinerate. We believe. We blaze.
don't always tell
I don’t always tell the truth, you know. That’s what makes me credible.
Sic et Non
“We of the Mechedictine order practice chastity, poverty and obedience to more perfectly know and serve the Prime Mover."
Dusty Oysters
"You got to grow up even if you aren’t gonna grow old.”
Intersection
The show will go on. It always will. But you don’t have to let the robot punch through your sternum.
Workbench
I’m afraid something's at work in there. At my workbench. And it isn’t me.
Greenbelt
Me, with the razor teeth and claws of a wolf, the hulking muscles of a great ape, the feral cunning of an adapter.
Drainage
Walk it. That’s how I processed a murder. Walk the crime scene, walk the neighborhood, walk until my mind caught up with my legs.
To Raise a Planet
The beautiful oceans you spent so much time creating; they’re just a toilet to your kids.
Automagically
“Do it, Dad! Beat that stupid Mage-o-matic!”
Original Sync
I am not who I am. I am another. A person who could pay to live forever. Their life pounded into my promethean processors.
MechTropolis
Like the water wheel to early industrialization, the Justification Engine drove all techglomerates.
Eveline
Within nanoseconds, she could call herself murderer in 337 languages. She knew the likely punishment of her crime in 221 countries.
Known Unknown
I am not an answer. Not a future. Only a factor.
Killing Time
That’s the relative truth he never woke to. Thought he ruled the roost, but he was just chicken feed.
Wave Goodbye
Then you done latched on too long and POW! you make the infinite disappear. Nothing but a single wave exist to you.
Bifurcation
It was insanity fighting insanity. And mother nature took sides. Aphyr fell through the lake ice.
City Zen
Little bird, all is real. Creation is creation. Information, information. Thus we are formed.
Noble Prize
“Poppycock! Thermodynamics does not permit miracles. No one knows better than I the quid pro quo of existence.”
Hacking Heaven
“Heaven. You’re looking at heaven. I hacked it. I’m in.”
Proof of Concept
In all reality it looked like Buck Roger’s hairnet.
Webtide
Scott intended that, should the RoadtoHell ever end, he would pave the last tier. Yet, the RoadtoHell didn't seem like it would ever end.
Past Perfect
He lusted after the trifecta: past, present and future perfect.
then
The infinite no longer awed; it obeyed.
LMFT
Here’s the deal. When a new universe spins into existence, the person who gets it turning has a definite edge.
MakerSpace
“Hand me the cordless drill. And the ball peen hammer. And the laser level. And the spawn of Cthulhu.”
Fire Fox
Fox became curious, “Why can we not make Fire? You are wise and I am clever. Why can we not have this power?”
Density
Crazily, the nothing shove flung Jeremy across the corridor, burying his head and torso through the door of a bright orange locker.
Agency
We are the Agents Who Say “C” and you must bring us a shrubbery!
Man's Best End
The judge admonished, “The defense will not try to prejudice the jury by referring to the neuro-translator as ‘that damn device.’"
Quant
Why run the numbers when you can let the numbers run you?
Just a Thought
Nanonumbots hummed and thrummed. Mechlife gone mad for science. For thought.
after the beheading
They had a splendid wedding…after the beheading.
the monsters from before
A philologist can appreciate a word like tomfoolery. Like this shaft, its roots were deep.
Coin of the Realm
Wolves may seem invincible, but they are self serving and cannot be trusted – and thus are weak in ways that we are strong.
countdowner
Well into the pandemic I noticed the countdown. Inside my left eyelid.
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