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Memoirs from 2034 (#4)
I took my sister to the AI kiosk doctor last month. My sister had been having some dizziness and mild headaches. The AI kiosk doctor prescribed some pain relievers and I took her home.
She wasn't feeling any better this week, so I took her back to the kiosk. I received a printout after she had gone to sit in the waiting area indicating we may wish ( Read more... ) -
Memoirs from 2034 (#3)
Just what is a generation anyway? Historically in America, and even now most of the American areas, average time between a mother and child averages fifteen years. But that’s not the standard for a ‘generation’. I mean, now we have the tweens and twenners, but that makes sense. That at least tags you for the decade in which you were born. ( Read more... ) -
Memoirs from 2034 (#2)
The thing that was true in 2012, and is still true today is that history has a way of apparent unfolding. Meaning that if you look back at history and the events that were occurring, it seems obvious that the result you have now is the result that was always going to happen. But if you voice a worry that things will result in a given way before ( Read more... ) -
Memoirs from 2034
Writing history is hard. You can’t write it too soon - mostly because you don’t know enough about it yet. There’s so many secrets and agreements and details that really mattered to how things happened that just seemed inconsequential if you look at them too soon after things happen. But you can’t write history too late, either. If you let too ( Read more... ) -
Filed under 'Truth is Stranger Than Fiction'
'In a case where biology is stranger than fiction, the parasite of the zombie-ant fungus is itself a fungus - a hyperparasitic fungus that specialises in attacking the parasite that turns the ants into zombies,' said Professor David Hughes from the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University in the United States and senior ( Read more... ) -
The last thing I remember before waking up....
Everyone I know has at least one stressful relationship, but I think I've found a way to get around that sort of unending gnaw of unhappiness!
The last thing I remember before waking up this morning was telling the person I was talking to in my dream: If you don't stop arguing with me, I'm just gonna wake up and leave you here alone to debate ( Read more... ) -
CONTEST! Time is running out!!
Student Writing ContestFOGcon values new writers and seeks to encourage their growth. The FOGcon writing contest aims to encourage student writers to engage with the Bay Area speculative fiction community and to explore the featured theme of this year’s FOGcon convention in their work ( Read more... ) -
An unusual recipe for the New Year!
This recipe was just so unexpected that I had to post it.
It is courtesy of worldspice.com - who says:
So this may look like a weird combination, but it's really good. This recipe makes a dense, rich brownie. And to make sure that there is enough chocolate in the brownie, we used both cocoa powder and melted chocolate. The key is to make sure that ( Read more... )
