The Moral Equivalent
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.
The Super-Smart Streaming Smartscreen
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?
The Wild, Wired Cable TV
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.
The Happy Little Color TV
Reading Time: 3 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.
The Brave Little Television
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?