Fiction
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Ingrid’s Top Ten Recreational Drugs
Category: Flash FictionIngrid’s Top Ten Recreational Drugs Ingrid’s number one favourite recreational drug was sugar (it was not her true number one.) Sugar gave her a solid high and she considered it a great drug (except for the cavities and false teeth.) Ingrid’s second favourite was caffeine. It certainly delivered powerful energy and kept her solid in…
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Crash
Category: Flash FictionCrash Arnold was distracted for only a second, searching for Gimme Shelter on his car’s USB, when he felt a huge bump and a huger crunch sound. Not the horrendous sound of metal shoved against itself, an awful screech, but a crunch, followed immediately by a thud. The thud was followed by a large sound…
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War Crimes
Category: ExperimentalWar Crimes General Marlboro routinely, as ordered, left combat decisions for individual strikes to AI. He worried he was committing war crimes, even as he ordered aerial attacks. AI attacked a compound containing the enemy’s leaders but it also levelled a nearby school (assuming it also contained leaders.) He ordered attacks on infrastructure. AI attacked…
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Forsaken Vegetables
Category: Flash FictionForsaken Vegetables Sitting in the bag, the string beans never felt they belonged. The peas and corn were thrilled to be frozen and packaged. But the string beans took longer to cook than the others and often came out tough. The string beans wanted to be easy to eat—and, if possible, by themselves, but few…
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Riding The Environment
Category: Flash FictionRiding The Environment Phillip and Martha built a very unusual balloon for a very unusual purpose. Powered by helium, it could reach great heights. They could control up and down, nothing else. Hung below the balloon was a small cabin with windows and leather straps on the ceiling and walls. Today Philip and Martha stepped…
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Arnold And Cooking
Category: Flash FictionArnold And Cooking Arnold loved the taste of properly cooked food but, lately, cooking depressed him. Creating meals from recipes was no longer fun. He had to eat, but what was he eating? It started with food dyes. He enjoyed red cupcakes, but learned the dyes were carcinogenic. Then butter, which no longer became soft…
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