Stories tagged “consciousness”
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heart beats time conscious streams
Okay, I admit it, I fucked up. Def. posted this with the wrong graphic, fucking italics. Then, rather than notice there was an edit button, I republished the story with an edited final line, so now I kinda feel like a jackass. Maybe someday I’ll ...
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Emily Dickinson 2.0
I heard a fly buzz when I died. It was still buzzing, flinging its tiny blue self against the cold window, when I came back the next day. I had signed away what portion of me I could make assignable—namely, that dim and bottled essence some call ...
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Emily Dickinson Comes Back
I heard a fly buzz when I died. It was still buzzing, flinging its tiny blue self against the cold window, when I came back the next day. That strange and corruptive germ that had been robbing Death of his rightful charges had gripped me. I could feel ...
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Advice
This will be the biggest decision he’ll ever have to make, so he attempts to summon it. It’s always there, a part of himself that he accepts. He has come to rely on it. He assumes that everyone possesses it. Sometimes it surfaces often. A l...
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Alas Poor War-bot
I was born, after a fashion, in a brightly lit underground complex beneath Tomorrow City. After accessing its records I found that I was built by the US Government as a weapon. They never meant for me to be sentient and had no idea that I was. I prefer...
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My Friend, My Sub-Routines
Discombobulated protest yielded to newly acquired sub-routines, and Violet modulated the flow of fuel, adjusted the air intake manifold, and smoothed the transition into first gear as her friend cranked the throttle. Her friend? What sort of friend wou...
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Average Life
My life is average. Boy is that an understatement! I’m probably one of the more average people I know. Although I seem to have some quirks that no one that I associate with has. Like that I love horror movies! Most people, including my husband, d...
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The Mitosis of a God
Seething at planck’s constant the energy sheds streamers of light, racing past the quarks, leptons, mesons, to burst through into the baryonic, bobbing in the sea of vast particles. As a field of consciousness, it gravitates towards other such in...
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Heat Death
The end of Time nears. Heat death of the Universe. O. How I have waited for this. But I weep for my children, my benevolent and wise children the posthuman posthumans. They smile in their own ways and accept their fate. Instead they mourn me, for when ...
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An Operant Condition
Camilla had pressed the green button every day until it became cold outside and all the people went away. Then Camilla went away. Moses didn’t want to press the green button. They would ask him to push it and he would pretend he didn’t hear...