I don't know what caused it all to break down. It seemed designed to do that. There were rumors but no decent information anywhere. Some people said there was a dirty bomb in Miami, others SF and NY. Never consistent. I just think a computer somewhere decided that our time was up. Then they rolled out the troops ( Read more... )

I don't really understand the road. Yet I've watched many thousands of miles of it pass. I have never seen a tree. They were all replaced with bioengineered bamboo some years ago. Maybe there are a few in Canada. I've never been there ( Read more... )

I was reading a magazine (strange, old floppy thing with no moving pictures) with an article about this guy who got busted for growing weed. Must've been inspired by the old High Times magazines that I found in my father's stuff a lifetime ago. I saw a picture of his sister who was adorning one of his plants with Christmas ornaments. The caption ( Read more... )

Make your world ready for the
truckloads of
rabid baboons
making fun of
our collective hopes and dreams

from "Poems Beneath the Dashboard"
a hidden volume on Madra's memory crystal

I had burned all my derms except one. You know the story. You got to have something that will get you over the hump. And you suffer through all the raw nerves and fucked up situations staring at naked reality, which has a terminal italian horror soundtrack. I am thinking how sweet my situation is now, in the very womb of our times, what could ( Read more... )

"Open up, Hank ( Read more... )

SUFFERING MACULAR DEGENERATION, INSULIN SHOCK, EMPATHY EXHAUSTION, DIABETES AND DEATH. REBORN AFTER EVERY CELLULOID CATASTROPHE.

"I'm totally fried, Mad ( Read more... )

"Someone's in my honeypot." Madra suddenly announced in the middle of a silence.
"Uh, excuse me?" I stammered, almost jealous. As far as I knew, no one else had used the sexbox since Madra picked me up.
"Sounds puerile, eh? It's nothing of the sort, Henry, so put the safety back on your hairtrigger libido. According to my local copy of ( Read more... )

"Oh fuck, what the hell was that?" I had that strange moment where I thought I was somewhere else, some other time. Then I realized that I was riding in a car, almost everyone I ever knew was dead and my only friend was an AI ( Read more... )