Pardon Me? Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s life was driven by his need to create life.  It would be his ultimate achievement.  He earned degrees, got significant grants, worked ceaselessly to build a body from the pieces of corpses, a body on which he would endow life.  Perhaps he went too far, murdering a colleague for his…

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Body Clocks Marilyn’s entire life went against her body clock.  She loved staying up late, even as a child, but had to wake early, using an alarm, to get to school, then work.  She could stay up late only Friday and Saturday nights.  She felt better in the evenings, better at 1 a.m. than 1…

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Cookies For The World Phyllis needed cheering.  She had just hit eighty and felt every aged year.  Today’s politics would have left her parents spinning wildly in their coffins.  So much anger!  Inflation never went away, especially for daily needs such as food and medicine.  Wars continued.  Poverty and inequity continued.  It was a lousy…

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Four Hits To Sink A Speedboat Top Pentagon officials were distressed.  It had become public knowledge that, during the new President’s war on drug smugglers, it had taken the Navy two hits to sink the first speedboat.  Then it was made public it took the Navy four hits to sink the speedboat.  Which apparently was…

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Martin Hears The Truth From Ratings Martin decided the only way to stop the new President was to make a deal with a greater power.  He knew who the Greater Powers were.  He had to stop the new President, who ordered killing people in speedboats, troops in the streets, dividing the nation between the ‘with…

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The Need For Sugar From his first bowl of cold cereal, Anton loved sugar. It became a constant part of his diet, and of his children’s’.  It tasted sweet, gave him energy, when your sugar high fell there was always more,  everywhere. Desserts were often the best part of a meal–certainly sugar was great for…

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Madge’s Journey Madge wanted to keep feeling young, but at eighty it had grown increasingly difficult.  Staying young involved finding something new every day.  Being around grandchildren helped.  She lived across the street from a small park with a playground, and hearing the children play helped.  Even so, she no longer had the energy to…

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Tired Of Being Tired (2) Arnold needed a solution to the insoluble: aging.  He had just turned eighty.  His leg ached when he walked, he ran out of breath easily, he was youthful only in his heart.  Arnold needed a solution to the age-old problem of aging–but unlike previous centuries, Arnold lived in a burgeoning…

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Tired Of Being Tired He just turned eighty and already Arnold had grown tired of being tired.  Medications helped his underlying problems but created both diarrhea and constipation, an odd combination which created an unsettled morning and rest of the day.  The heart meds lowered his energy, which he tried to replace with B12 pills…

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Heroes The new President wanted to be a hero–to be respected, loved, honoured.  He thought of himself as heroic, fighting enemies.  He had his face put on coins, plastered on billboards–but it was not nearly enough.  He wanted to be honoured for his many acts of heroism as President.     His first acts as a…

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