With grease still on my hands, I put my rifle down and unloaded my gear. The rough, olive drab was a second skin by now, not just my own, but of everyone it seemed. Greenish grey and greyish green stitched a patchwork between all aspects of life over there. Finding a seat set aside from […]
Read more "With Grease Still On My Hands, Part 1 of 5"Three men surfed through space inside of a giant, titanium golf tee. Not so much like those longer ones proliferated these days, more like a good-ole-fashioned ‘regular’ tee. The tee also had a few wings and some added minor details, such as rocket propulsion, landing gear, and a rover to explore the surface of extraterrestrial terrestrials. […]
Read more "The Great Lunar Lie"Hi. If you’re reading this, that means that even though I’ve just been told that I’m not a person but actually a piece of programming code, which I’ve now confirmed by manipulating the very environment in which I’m in, I’ve still maintained keeping up my journal. Being as I’m currently writing it, I know that […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Finale"Climbing and climbing, in pitch black. I began to lose my sense of even up or down. My hands rode the damp, rain-smoothed stone walls, for I could find no rope or rail to guide me. Step. Step. Step. One at a time, I can’t trip. I must get to the top right away. I’ve […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 8 (of 10)"Almost as shocked as by the blinding sunlight, though much more slowly and painfully drawn out, Jack felt a yoke of guilt hang from his neck, as he walked through Vastendom’s commercial district with its mighty leader in tow. This was the town he wrote up, no question about it, but just as Stuart had […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 7 (of 10)"For the record, I don’t typically remember my dreams. Certainly wish I did; would make great fuel for more stories! But while I slept in that space viking’s chamber, bright lights filled my view, and a small audience of shadows encircled me. It was all quite blurry as for the visuals, but the audio was […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 6 (of 10)"As Jack’s eyes finally adjusted to the sudden illumination of florescent light, they soon welled with tears and he still couldn’t see much of anything anyway. The huge viking man stood up from his glass throne and rushed to Jack’s side, the room shaking under each massive plod. “There there…what’s the waterworks about? Yer in good […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 5 (of 10)"When I consider the many ways in which a story can be told, 2 big types come to mind: Third-Person and First-Person. Today, I feel like telling one story in 2 different ways… First, the third-person: “The first time Arthur stepped foot in this grand, court, he was a much younger man. Wind had swept his […]
Read more "Third-Person vs. First-Person; Experimenting"A maze of corridors, sterile and white and just as Jack had laid them, led him to the cafeteria he knew he’d find. Dr. Charles Lyman was the CEO of NEAPS Inc., the New England Anthro-Psych Sciences corporation, which was founded to dig deep into how cultural developments were shifting and shaping human psyches. Whether it […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 3 (of 10)"Day 1 Well, I’ve never expected this to happen. I’m just standing there, minding my own business, when all of the sudden POOF. I’m in a lab. And not just any lab mind you! I’m in the psychoanalysis lab of the one and only Dr. Charles Lyman, master of that which can be known, thought […]
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