The implants were thought a good idea when humans wanted to have full access to information and not be distanced from it by the old system of computers and electricity; one company, Serion had the technology and received approval from the People’s government, who were in charge of fulfillment: the attainable state of endless contentment, no childbirth, no relationships, that illusive state that had alluded their forefathers.

In 2015 people chose the implants, by 2018 they…

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I had a friend who could see into the future. We would go out, drink a few beers and with a wink and a smile, he'd tell me exactly how the night would turn out. It would, word for word, happen exactly as he foretold. We used to joke how it was a gift from the devil himself. He was killed last summer, hit by a car as he crossed the road to talk to a girl. They say he never saw it coming.

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Now as we know, most fortune tellers are wont to say "I told you so" - when they can "prove" that one of their vague predictions could be said to have an inkling of prophecy in it. And this was no exception. Nasa and Maya had spoken of The Cloud of Obfuscation. An undersea volcano exploded, and the forces unleashed were enough to throw half-solidified gobs of magma far and wide. The sea became a seething mass of steam - and this,…

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I opened my eyes, not knowing where I was; then I remembered. It was tough knowing that I won a prize without entering any competition. Just because I was kind, and innocent, and pretty, I was obliged to accept a reward. I was constrained to become one of the new Eves populating the newly-discovered planet between Earth and Mars. I had no… Continue

He had come to dinner, tall, pale and lean, and we were now sitting at the table eating a delicious and juicy stuffed cabbage. Finally I asked my son, Well then if you really want to be a musician, can you tell me how it works, the music scene ? He let some time pass, The majors are loosing it, nobody wants to pay, so you have to find a niche or organise live concerts. Find a new business model. But, I said, it’s been five years, you’ve played in a band, worked as a sound engineer, organised… Continue

I was born a child of Fire, my daughter a child of Air, and for 15 years we raged at each other, her winds fueled my fire and when she tired of it she would blow away, leaving me to smolder, when my fire was all but out she would gust at it again, leaving me to burn the dry timbers and weeds while she raced to the clouds.



It was only on a recent Summer's eve, sitting under an ancient avocado tree, the air carrying the scent of oleanders and sea spray and endless Summer nights, that I… Continue

I keep trying to see the positive sides of whatever sort of events take place in my life, no matter how insignificant and instead of only living in the moment, I'm trying to look ahead a little bit and project myself into the near future. This is not something I have been doing, as I've only lived from one day to the next and have hardly given tomorrow a thought, let alone the days after that. I'm starting to think about next week now and maybe even the week after that, although this is still… Continue