Stories tagged “invention”
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The Final Collision
To those in the know, there is no left and no right. There is no right and wrong. There are only those who are trying to protect this secret and there is everybody else. For as long as human beings have dreamed of technology, we have wondered what it w...
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What a useless invention!
To Thomas, it looked like some kind of squat rocket, but without a nose. A computer screen, relatively tiny, adorned the front, along with a small black keyboard. “What is it?” “A Changer!” squealed his always eccentric friend, ...
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The Strange Gift of Adam Fisher
Adam Fisher had an unusual gift. He first knew it when he built a cathode ray tube out of his sister’s Power Wheels Jeep when he was 7 or 8. He was asked to leave the school’s latchkey program when he assembled a crime lab out of the classr...
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Og's discovery
There was once a caveman, and like many caveman he was named Og, because caveman didn’t have properly developed vocal cords and couldn’t pronounce the complex names we have today such as Joe or Bob. One day, Og was quickly rotating a stick ...
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Perfect!
“Noisome” Aunt Penny howled, “It’s bloody noisome Harry. You should go out and get a proper job. I wanted your mother to get a proper job, but she wanted to be a whore!” Harry, gaunt and pale, peered at her through the cra...
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The Power of Flight
He sprints towards the edge. The tests seem to support the theory The wings of wax and feathers are strapped onto a leather harness around his chest. Fluttering in the wind. Test A, the very first test, had failed. The thump of the dummy hitting the gr...
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The Lab
Somewhere dangerously close to the Kitchen lies the Laboratory. Here, great minds spend their days thinking up new ways to make life for the residents of the Mansion easier (or harder, if they feel like it). So many strange and wonderful things have (o...