Yuriy Zubovski
Joined June 2009 and calls Thick with Issues home.
11 stories, 0 challenges, 15 comments, and 17 friends
I am a Russian-born physics major at Carnegie Mellon University. I am an atheist, collaborative writer, poet, graphic artist, web designer, and person.
Stories
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Survivors Anonymous
I’m not stupid. I’ve seen the films. Zombies like brains, and intestines, and flesh in general. Zombies are drawn to flesh much like a fat American is – was – drawn to a Big Mac. You can’t really blame them. There is also ...
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Edison. Trey Edison.
One of the biggest barriers to artificial intelligence was the Interpretation Engine – a program so thick, so cyclical, so modular, that no one knew how it worked. Unfortunately, the IE wasn’t designed to understand the IE algorithm, so whi...
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You want General-Tso's Tofu?
“No, I do not want Chicken Fried Rice! Is my – No, no! I am not placing an order! I’m trying to connect to my mother!” You would think that while on the AirPhone with my mother, through a geographic dislocation, I would get disc...
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How to give advice
I know how to take advice. I even know how to take criticism. But as far as getting things done, I have never, ever backed down. You could be the reason that history is “fixed” – fooling guys like me into not bothering to even try. We...
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Breathe deeply, exhale.
Success is measured in part by the end result, and in part by the progress. There is no better progress in working on a time machine – to go back in time to talk to yourself – than to see a future you come back in time, just as you planned....
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Meatbags and Screwheads
I acknowledged. “You see Trey, there are two types of people in the world. Dead, and dying.” I scanned back to my knowledge of history. He was right. Meatbags rot. “Stay with me Mr. Edison – and there are two types of screwheads...
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How to place blame.
The yelling, the whining! “Coot! You never shut up!” Coot really did not shut up, even at Vanco’s remark. “Because I’m thinking out loud, because I can’t walk, and because I want a way out!” Vanco should have r...
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Public Relations
“And in recent news, the Corporation has apologized for the unfortunate death of Amy Costolapolis. Sources state that Costolapolis’s diagnosing surgeon failed to identify an as-yet undisclosed condition, which came into an unprescedented co...
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The dangers of climbing.
The red reflection off of Tertius illuminated the Verdan night so well that Jerabel could barely find shadows large and dark enough to hide his fat torso. These nightly outings had increased in volume for him several times over in the past few months. ...
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Hindsight twenty-twenty.
“Impossible! Unprescedented! Irresponsible! Is General Prettana to blame for this? Or Counselor Vassi? Or am I to face the consequences?” A collective wince. The silent screens flicked between various broadcasts of the violence on Tertius, ...
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Mimicry is only half of the work.
The ambassador slumped onto the couch, and the vase used to hit him miraculously did not break. Reiko sighed relief and began carefully undressing him, taking care to avoid the trickle of blood stemming from the ambassador’s ear. Reiko then donne...
