Category: Writing
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The Rumble
I awoke with a start. My chest was heaving, and I could hear myself in the darkness, gasping for air, while the cold sweat on my skin gave me a chill that added a shiver to the breathing. Something had startled me. Something loud, deep, and ominous had shocked me awake, and sent a fear…
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The Swipe
It was inevitable. And it was only when the technology caught up that the inevitable happened. We’d been doing it on our devices for ages. Swiping left or right to say whether we wanted to chat to someone or not. We liked or ignored posts on social media. It became binary. A yes or no…
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The Screens
There was a strange thing going on, she had noticed. The news was full of bad, weird, or shocking stories, one after the other, piling on before anyone had time to process the new information. And it wasn’t like before, it wasn’t news as filler. This was all proper, legitimate, news-worthy news. And the effect…
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The Apple Problem
Harry didn’t like having ideas. Not anymore. There was a time when all he wanted to do was have original thoughts, be creative, just let his mind wander free and easy. That was before the apples. About five years ago now, he was sitting at his desk, wondering what to write next, and he was…
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Cruel And Unusual
Living in a dystopian hell hole isn’t too bad. For the most part. That’s what I thought anyway. The horrible stuff only happened to other people, people who stepped out of line, people who didn’t follow the rules, people who challenged the wrong things. It’s cognitive dissonance of course. I knew deep down that when…
