“It’s very simple, really,” Father Capponi said. “The robot gets to be the boy’s spiritual father.” “What do you gain out of this arrangement?” the man said, cautiously. “That way it gets to learn about people,” Mario said, arms wide in an honest pose. The man thought about it. “Okay, Read more…
In a world parallel to our own, the rich and powerful had their own zeppelins. They liked to strut around over us mere mortals, and the zeppelin demand suddenly grew bigger. The logical next step in their illogical minds was to make a big zeppelin city. After all, all those Read more…
Benny finished his coffee, then threw the coffee cup away. Images flashed before his eyes. Coffee cup> Passer-by throwing his next to it> Thousands of passers-by throwing theirs as well> Little piles of trash> Garbage man fired> Murder ten metres away from that very spot> Bad neighbourhood headlines> House prices Read more…
“Should I throw this away?” Bobby said, holding an indistinguishable piece of trash in his hands. “Yes, dude! What did I tell you? Everything is garbage. It all goes into the cube.” Terry was the older guy who drew the short straw and had to teach the new guy. Read more…
The Veil Elliot Tuckerberg grew up admiring the promises and imagining the possibilities of Magic Leap. He knew from his uncle that the headset would be something expensive, so he saved up for three years so he could afford it. He didn’t get a bike, got lunch from home, didn’t Read more…
Closely Guarded Secret 🔑 The mayor sighed. “I believe we’ve gone through the official unfinished business.” He slapped the tenth pile of papers on his desk and slid it across to the other man. The mayor-to-be took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “Yes, we’ve been hours at it.” “Nobody Read more…
Mike Winkelmann AKA Beeple, is an inspiration of hard work and dedication. He is well-known online about his artwork, you’ve definitely seen it somewhere. But, more importantly, he’s known for the movement #everyday, in which 3D artists produce a piece every single day without fail and put it up online, Read more…
This weird and quirky story got picked up by Sick Lit Magazine, and is now in audio format in all its cringey glory. Bird’s-Eye View of the Back of Your Head. Read by Caitlin Patterson, she has really delivered the craziness and the black humour in this piece. I love Read more…
I had a discussion yesterday about people’s belief systems and Jung and Freud. An idea got dropped at the table: What if people had none of the spiritual influences, what would happen then? What if we started tabula rasa, with no symbols or mythology to base our beliefs on? Well, Read more…
Today I workshopped a story about drones, and people on the fringes of society, and dronehunting to survive. I tested the story out in a short story format and it seems people like it, but it needs expanding. It’s a coming of age story of a boy without Citizenship, meaning Read more…