Reading Time: 7 minutes – SHORT STORY – In this scene from “He Said, She Said,” the owner of the Morning Sun and Evening Star tells “the troops” just what it means to go to war with an unseen enemy. Continue reading The Moral Equivalent
Reading Time: 4 minutes – SHORT STORY – “Well, folks, I don’t know how you got here but that’s not important now,” the sergeant said. “What matters is where you go from here.” Continue reading Lost
Reading Time: < 1 minutes – SHORT STORY – Is there anything sadder, more pathetic, than two old men reliving their glory days? Continue reading Last Call
Reading Time: 4 minutes – FICTION – Streaming media and artificial intelligence enter the lives of the family that grew up — and apart — on television. Now what? Continue reading The Super-Smart Streaming Smartscreen
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – The Wild, Wired Cable TV continues her brother and sister’s quest to make America happy again. But instead people are drifting apart. Continue reading The Wild, Wired Cable TV
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – For a while, Brother, Sister, Mother and Father were happy, too. They saw a wonderful world of color, parades and cartoons, football and baseball, hillbillies and Gilligans. Continue reading The Happy Little Color TV
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – The little television could see how the black-and-white, us-and-them world was making her family sad and angry, but what could she do? Continue reading The Brave Little Television
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – Morrow crouched alongside the stretcher as the ambulance attendants splinted the woman’s leg. Still unconscious, she inhaled sharply in pain as they lifted her into the back of the ambulance. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – She bumped over an overgrown rail line, barely maintaining control of her scooter as its front tire got caught in the recesses of the crossing and started to follow the tracks, as if with a will of its own. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Something had happened, to her, anyway, but she was putting that behind her. Or was it still in front? With no landmarks, a useless map, not even the moon to orient her, she could be going in circles. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3
