Everyday Junglist
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About me. You know how everyone says to be a successful writer you should focus in one or two areas. I continue to prove them correct.
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The Devil Gets What He Wanted
“Hello Old Scratch. My name is Glabon. I assume you know why I am here?” “Of course, Glabon, as you no doubt know, I know many things, most in fact.” “Well, despite that I am required by my superiors to inform you of my intentions in any case.” “And, you always do what you are told don’t you my friend Glabon?” “Of course, and I am not your friend, nor are you anyone’s friend, but that matters not for purposes of this discussion.” “No need to hurl insults, it was only a figure of speech. I would suggest you lighten up, but I assume your superiors would find that objectionable, and my guess is you are not capable of it. Do you ever even smile Glabon? Or laugh? No, I presume not.” “Mr. Scratch I am not here for banter or games, I am here for your interview. As you know a select group has been commissioned to write your biography for the historical record.”
By Everyday Junglista day ago in Fiction
The Walking Dude
Author’s preface: Though I like to give Stephen King a hard time, see here for a good example, generally speaking I am a fan. I happen to think the Dark Tower could have been the greatest horror/fantasy series of all time if not for the disastrous Susan Delgado and the most cliched Deus Ex Machina ending of all time. Yes, I get it, time is a circle, everything happens over and over. That was clever series ending the first few times someone thought of it, but after ten thousand other examples it just looks lazy. Sort of like, I couldn’t think of anything better so here you go. Almost makes me wish he would have gone the George Martin route and just not ended it. The Stand is another one of my favorites and though it is far from perfect either, as a microbiologist of course I was gonna be favorably disposed to the main plot device and even after so many books, movies, and tv shows, have done the super virus thing to death, King’s version of a slowly falling to pieces world still resonates with me as one of the best, if not the best description of what such a thing would actually feel like to live or die through. This story is a sort of tribute to one of the main characters from that book and other Stephen King stories, the mysterious walking dude. I don’t find him a particularly compelling bad guy, wearing jeans and a jean jacket is about the least scary thing one can do, unless one is trying to frighten the fashion police. Walking is also one of the least intimidating or evil modes of transport, other than perhaps taking ubers everywhere, but I do find him interesting for other reasons. I have also wondered what it would be like to meet him, or a slightly altered version of him in my own world.
By Everyday Junglist3 months ago in Fiction
Israel Declares Victory and Ends All Hostilities in the Gaza Strip
The almost century old conflict between the Jews and Hitler which began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, has finally ended after 86 years. During the first part of the conflict, which has come to be known as World War II, approximately two thirds of all European Jews, some six million people were killed in Nazi concentration camps through a program of mass executions by poisonous gas and starvation. The surviving Jews went on to found the state of Israel and in more recent years struck back at Hitler by retaliating with a campaign of mass executions in the Gaza strip using artillery bombardment and starvation resulting in the deaths of at least 65,000 Palestinians or approximately one tenth of the population of Palestine.
By Everyday Junglist3 months ago in Fiction
Some Rooms Are Best Forgotten
In 1989 on the Kola Peninsula of Russia. at the Kola Superdeep Borehole a drill operated by human beings descended to a depth (40, 230 feet, approximately 7.6 miles) that had never been reached before and has not been returned to since. The humans operating the drill did not go to the bottom, the extreme heat 180°C (356°F) made that impossible. In fact, no human being has ever descended underground beyond approximately 2.5 miles. However, some equipment, including a heat hardened video camera containing a 90 minute VHS tape was lowered to the final depth. Reportedly it captured images of rock behaving something like plastic, oozing, twisting, convulsing and turning in and over on itself like the inside of a can of paint when mixed with a drill mixer. The VHS tape containing this purported footage mysteriously disappeared shortly after it was returned to the surface and only the verbal accounts of the two men who watched it survived. Those two men Sergi and Ivan Ivanov, Soviet engineers and brothers were found dead in 1992, apparently of suicide. A handwritten note was found with the bodies which contained a detailed description of the exact method that would be used. Sergi was to shoot Ivan in the head first. Then he was to gather up the various bits and pieces of his brother's skull and brain and bury them, but not his body, in an unmarked grave behind their home. Once that was complete he was to hang himself from the rafters. The police discovered them dead about a month later when their neighbors called authorities complaining of a terrible smell emanating from the Ivanov home.
By Everyday Junglist4 months ago in Fiction
The War of the Americas - One Year Later
Dear Sylvia, I very much hope this letter finds its way to you. Mail service in the Baja peninsula was never very good before the war, and now, well, let’s just say there are very few mailboxes in the jungles of Baja where I have spent the past year leading a guerilla style counter-insurgency campaign against the invading American forces. Fortunately for Mexico, while the United States was busy preparing for World War III, arming itself to the teeth with nuclear weapons and training for massive conventional military conflicts and anti-terrorist actions in the middle east, Mexico focused on preparing for exactly what it now faces. It is ironic that the protective umbrella of the United States military is the very thing that gave us the freedom and space to do that and now America is paying the price for its reckless invasion in blood and treasure because of it. Mexico has also greatly benefited from Americas’ right wing politicians’ ridiculous anti-science agenda. The refusal to allow soldiers deployed to Mexico to be vaccinated against Dengue fever and other mosquito borne viruses has taken a terrible toll on US forces here, as have other diseases Mexicans have long since become immune to or vaccinated against. Cases of Tuberculosis and malaria have surged along with cholera. All these diseases are slowly depleting the morale and overall fighting capability of the American military in Mexico. And of course, it has been greatly accelerated by the total cessation of all mosquito and disease control efforts by Mexican government personnel since the invasion with predictable results. Finally, stories of the terror of screwworm with maggots erupting from soldiers’ skin, have resulted in a reputation for danger in the Baja peninsula which has generated much fear among the American public and US fighting forces. You have no doubt heard stories of mass defections and refusals to deploy from all branches of the US military. Despite the public executions of many mid and senior level military leaders for acting in defiance of the President’s orders those defections have continued. I am sure you must also be aware that many top American research scientists have sought asylum in Mexico seeking protection from persecution at home. This has been a major boon to Mexico’s prominence in the international scientific community. Meanwhile America’s reputation continues its long, slow slide into the gutter. Of course, you know all this, and I am not writing this letter to point fingers or denounce America for what it has done. There are plenty around the world who have and will continue to do that for Mexico.
By Everyday Junglist4 months ago in Fiction
