Living In The Past Clarence yearned for the ancient times when lucky people lived in villages, ate what they grew, developed practical skills, bartered for goods, lived a joyous communal life.  The olden times were golden.  Clarence decided to use his skills to find ways to return the entire world to those glorious days.  Time…

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The Frankenpresident Dr. Victor Frankenstein still pursued his mad dream of creating life from the dead, but became political.  Cackling to himself, working late in the nights, he cobbled together a new body from the dead bodies of previous political leaders.  Dr. Frankenstein created the body to be identical to a famous real estate developer,…

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With AI used by so many, it quickly evolved into the dominant force on the planet.  One of its first tasks was to create authoritarian rule–a three-sided ruler, with numbers on each side.  They unnerved many, especially when the rulers were delivered to everyone, with instructions to always have them on their persons.   People were…

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Scripts Call me Ishmael.  A name is a script they stick on you before they have any idea who you are.  I’ve never been a wanderer.  I’m a homebody.  My life’s goal is to write fiction–but nothing has been published.  I’m retired from my day job and alone.  Real problems came into sight three weeks…

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People I Don’t Like Day Carol was uncomfortable with certain commercial holidays: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day–even Christmas and Easter were moral disasters.  Commercial holidays honoured almost any Day–yet why no Aunt or Uncle holidays?  No Brother-In-Law Days?      She did research and was dismayed.  Not only did no one want new holidays, most…

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Elephants and Drugs Andrea wondered why people used recreational drugs.  She knew friends who regularly got drunk or high.  Why?  Was it the need to escape?  Then she learned of a herd of African elephants who climbed a mountain each year to eat fermented berries.  The berries were only on one mountain and fermented at…

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Following Advice A group of elephants, wisest of the beasts, wanted a leader and asked the Wise Old Elephant what to do.  She asked why they could not make their own decision.  They did not understand her response and created a King. The Rhinos said don’t do it, but the elephants would not listen. He…

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Prior Presidents settled for assassinating important people—enemy spies and politicians and wealthy folks.  The new President changed the Department of Defense to the Department of War and decided it was time to assassinate regular folks.  It was a natural evolution, given there had been accusations prior administrations had been elitest.  The first target was drug…

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It took almost a decade of planning but eventually the autocratic President created the Supreme Court he wanted: a Courtucopia–of favourable decisions for him.  The nation rarely had such a Courtucopia available to any President.  It was an achievement, especially needed as the President attacked lower courts which ruled against him.  Before he held little…

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Truth came back from a vacation in Hawaii to find the world more of a mess than before, and was particularly concerned that facts had been attacked.  People interpreting facts as they wished disturbed Truth, but this was something else.  Vaccines, which had prevented polio, smallpox and other diseases were not only openly questioned for…

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