J.D. Leaver
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Thawed Propitiation
When I was alive I hated waiting and now I hate it even more. Every morning we line up, dozens of us, and the gatekeeper with a short blonde bob and a penchant for snapping her gum at the exact same time as clicking her pen looks us up and down. She never said anything directly to us, but we all felt the shame when the giant orb of swirling white and silver light eventually morphed into glowing either yellow or red. She stood next to the glowing vortex, at a podium in between two giant trees. Rolling green hills and a large expanse of bright blue water stretched as far as the eye could see. I wasn’t sure if I kept walking if I would get to the end eventually, or if I would end up back here. I suspected the latter.
By J.D. Leaver4 years ago in Fiction
The Ancient Heart of Our Future
I held on to the disintegrating once-white fabric with my left hand, the right clutching the rusted heart-shaped locket. If my right hand was still made of skin I suppose the locket would slip out from sweat. It’s my 30th birthday, and even though I’m scared, I promised you I would do this. I can still remember you, covered in grime and grease, tinkering with this damn machine. If only you had lived a little longer. They laughed when you said it was a time machine. I wish you could see the world now Dad. You lived to 60. Now everyone will live for hundreds of years, thanks to artificial limbs, hearts, neural stem cells, and deceleration of DNA telomere degradation. But the world still sucks. Especially without you.
By J.D. Leaver5 years ago in Futurism
