Category: Science Fiction
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National Ignorance Crisis – Short Story
It was wonderful until politics got involved. The space between the creation of a full body health scanner, made affordable with nano scan technology, and the time it took the government to regulate it was glorious. My mom was the first to jump in line for one at Black Friday to help diagnose her back…
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As The World Drowned Us – Short Story
The waves came suddenly, washing away all the filth and anxiety of mankind. We became so enamored with ourselves that we forgot about the health of the planet and became ignorant of its grievances. We forgot that it still existed, under our feet and in our lungs. We abused it and succumb to its unforgiving…
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Artifact from Another Universe – Short Story
Status alert: IVR-2 has been found on planet 12-Suicury g. Subatomic string scans and history logs provide the following timeline. High orbit scans suggest the planet was nonvolatile and non-hostile at the time the bot’s capsule crash landed in a valley on the planet’s surface. Local biological scans revealed that the local fauna discovered the crash…
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Grave Yard Sale – Short Story
“But we don’t have money for plasma.” The old pre-owned wifey-poo was spouting off about the fuel gauge on the pre-owned, self-driving Oldsmobile flyer. They were both staring at individual paper checks each received that day from the Department of Not Wanting To Work, totaling four thousand smackeroos in unemployment wages. Ernest grabbed a fruit…
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Cutting the Crap – Short Story
“I got the good stuff. The good stuff that’ll peel your eyelids off and strip away your ego. You’re living in a fog. The world is much more colorful than you think. Lift the veil, man. Lift the veil.” Charly was practically hanging off the toilet bowl, reaching under the stall to jingle the mini-fermentation…
Karl Kirkpatrick 