Donald Donald was born into a rich family.  His father wanted him in real estate but he yearned for something concrete so he plowed his money into a company he could dedicate to his needs: a toy company.  He fired the key executives and hired only those whose opinion was “Yes.”  He fired those who…

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Mated Initially, the affair was almost entirely sexual.  They were both enrolled in an evening cooking class where students were there not because they wanted to learn cooking.  After the class started, he joined her at a counter and they baked a cake together.  They went to her place afterwards and did not sleep together,…

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2084 Welcome to 2084.  It’s been a long haul–getting used to 6,900 sunscreen takes time.  I don’t go out.  Why bother?  What’s outside except dirt and cancer?  I live in a comfy apartment thirty feet underground.  Best protection against the tornadoes and storms and solar radiation.  Only the poor live above ground.  The nightly news…

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The Cure For Boredom Charlie was bored and did not understand why.  He had plenty of diverting toys.  TV, streaming, computer, gaming platform.  Books, magazines.  Two fish tanks, with guppies and cute cat fish.  But it increasingly was boring and felt wrong.  It was wrong to eagerly wait for the next TV show.  Video games…

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The Beast Comes For Us Victor usually wrote personal stories from his own life about what was important to him but, these days, he felt an obligation to write political satire—the anger demanded it.  Hatred was everywhere, promoted by the nation’s leaders.  The Beast appeared and slouched over the land, at first hesitant, increasingly relentless,…

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Politics And Used Cars The nation had been a world leader but its new President, a used car salesperson, saw it as an outdated older model which needed more than a paint job.  Living in a used car, like living in a democracy, can be comfy.  It is familiar, radiates shared history, and the seats…

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Conspiracies In the early days of the pandemic Phil was returning home from a quiet walk when he saw his next-door neighbour.  She had just returned from picketing the local hospital.  The hospital had no overflow of covid patients.  It was lying, the media were lying.  Covid did not exist.  The whole thing was a…

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The Illegal Alien A gentle alien from another galaxy landed on Earth, hid its spacecraft and got an apartment, a car and a job in a convenience store.  It was an explorer and would live among Earthlings and learn their ways. However, everyone around it quickly realized it was an alien, mostly because of the…

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Its All About The New President The New President believed life was all about him and believed now that he was elected he could prove it.  His first days in office were full of news reports about his flurry of executive orders.  The news was all about him.  As the months crawled by, the top…

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Dream World Anton put all of his valuable thoughts onto the internet: Substack, Patreon, his own website.  Each day he wrote something about the world he lived in, describing what was wrong and how it could be made right.  When he started uploading, he was quickly  thrilled, getting hits.  However, after a few months, the…

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