Author: Victor

Building Empires Kings believe ruling a small nation is not enough.  They need bigger: more territory, more subjects, to expand their borders, conquer other lands, killing the people living there if they objected.  It was a natural process.  Expansion was important.  Kings believed if they could show they were bigger, even the Kings with small […]

Waiting for Entertainment to Deliver Earnest found the world a tough place and depended on entertainment to bring him needed escape.  He needed to get lost in a novel, a film, music.  He needed a world where antagonism was a mere fiction, not reality.  He needed escape, but waiting for it was increasingly difficult.  His […]

Love People You Don’t Love Truth was concerned.  These days, loving one another was more important than ever, yet humanity was obsessed with conflict and war.  Greed was happy, Lust was beyond itself and Mars, the God of War, blossomed.  Only Truth saw it as a good time for a few, bad times for most.  […]

Loving People You Don’t Love Truth was concerned.  These days, loving one another was more important than ever, yet humanity was full of conflict, war, arguments.  Greed was happy, Lust was beyond itself and Mars, the God of War, had blossomed.  Truth saw it as a good time for a few, bad times for most.  […]

Greenland Eric worried that Greenland was very appealing to the President.  For one, the President believed it was actually green and not nearly as icy as it claimed.  The country had really great minerals too, and was big.  The President’s intended legacy included a significantly expanded nation.  And Greenland had to be good because money […]

Men And Sex [Reader Advisory] Marvin led a team studying what aroused people.  They had been at it thirty years (there was a lot to research.)  Women seemed straightforward, men were all over the map.  Marvin and the men on his team found it fascinating and disorienting.  The women smirked.  Women enjoyed sex but did […]

Aging Milton found aging to be a process of increasing tiredness.  Needing naps.  Waking up slowly, pushing himself from bed rather than leaping.  Gut problems draining his energy (took a long time to realize it.)  B-12, Magnesium, prescription pills.  Dreading walking a few blocks, arthritis pain and no energy, he shuffled.  Seeing something new every […]

 A Late Night Story About Naming Names Now that we’re all in the living room, past Christmas and looking at the New Year coming, I’ll tell you a little story.  I could have told it on Halloween.  It’s been that kind of year.      Our President believes his name should be on almost everything.  So […]

Shallow Mike earned a living in construction but lived to write poetry.  He had several books published but, despite the music in his writing, he wondered whether he had anything to offer more than cliches.  How shallow was he?  What was he, deep inside?  Did he have a deep inside?  He avoided cliches (or thought […]

Expectations Andromeda needed therapy for anxiety, for her failed expectations.  She did not consider her expectations unrealistic—they were what life should deliver: happiness.  To achieve happiness, as did so many of her generation, Andromeda turned to AI. Why?  By her mid-twenties, earning a modest living as a commercial writer (she wanted to write screenplays), she […]

A President Without Precedent I am a President without precedent– think of all I’ve affected since re-elected.  My deeds you should have expected (though I have misdirected.)  I call you names, won’t play your games. I’m not dumb.  I love you numb    because half the country is scum   who deserve being under my […]