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Future Crush – Short Story
I couldn’t believe there was a time traveler standing in my living room dressed in what appeared to be space armor, aerodynamic and dark, staring me in the face, blushing and dotting like a shy young girl. But she wasn’t a girl. She was a woman, seemingly lost in admiration in my direction. “You’re from…”…
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Toxic Playground – Short Story
I’m a ceramic planter without the plant. Just a ceramic, circular bowl of dirt. Only because I want to be. There are people who do so many extraordinary things. Fairies, orcs, robots, vampires, wolves with anthropomorphic humanoid bodies. It all seems so complicated and overwhelming. I’m just happy with Monday morning sunshine and glossy dew.…
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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…
Karl Kirkpatrick 