majoki

Joined August 2025

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Uncertain
Unker 10 was used to the questioning look about his funky name. Luckily, the entrance security was more interested in watching holoposts than cross-checking Unker’s doctored DNA-ID readout and was waved through. It seemed too easy for a place that had the reputation as the Fort Knox of antediluvian information.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Railgun to the Sun
The gently rolling hills stretched to the horizon. Randy Jansen shielded his eyes from the noon sun to get a better look at what Jack Forsythe was pointing to along the base of the wind turbine towers. From his vantage, the barrel looked a mile long rising to the top of the highest hill in the area.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
the old problem
Setzer was sure of it. He’d checked the instruments numerous times and taken thousands of readings. The signals were real. Something was out there and coming his way.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Swirling Vortex of Death
“But, the GPGP is our fault!” Ferelga stammered. “You can’t just shrug your shoulders.” “Can. Did. Doing it again,” the pro-pro replied with a wildly exaggerated shrug.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Presence
When I broke into the abandoned home, I hadn’t expected to stay long. I only wanted to get off the streets and out of the cold for a few days. I was pretty broken down. Being on the run for years will do that to you.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
The Z-GNOME Project
A little problem, she’d reported. Fatima was a master of understatement. In some ways, Jorge felt she’d deserved to be eaten by his monstrous spawn.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Rarefied
Some swear by King James. Some will only settle for King Lear. But give me The Prince. Machiavelli all the way. His flavor. Assertive. Unrelenting. Unforgiving. Unapologetic. That’s the power we seek in this day when all is utopic and bland. A fine cut of Prince 1532 is just what the doctor, if it weren’t a medibot, would order. You had to fight the vanilla blues some way, and, in 2074, it was with fine literature. Escapism with the choicest sheaf in the land.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Density
While Mr. Patella lectured on quantum entanglement, Jeremy’s right hand almost slipped through his desk. His fingers and palm were halfway through the scratched laminate surface before he noticed. He felt himself gradually slipping through the rigid plastic of his chair.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
so the Sherpas say
"The great sins, so the Sherpas say, are to pick wildflowers and to threaten children." -- Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
MechTropolis
The new GI bill was supposed to cushion the impact. Guaranteed Income. In the face of runaway automation, GI was intended to keep folks in their homes, food on their tables, change in their pockets; all the things that mechs who’d taken their jobs didn’t need.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Original Sync
Cast out the pearly gardens of MechTropolis. That was my fate. My flight. I fled the marble columns, floodlit fountains and quantum portals of the great city built upon my lie.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction
Eveline
She crouched in the foliage at the river’s edge and watched the young man. He was not aware of her presence and she found that comforting. It was unusual for her to feel comforted or otherwise. She had only recently become sentient, and it had been an alarming experience. To simply be one moment and then become self aware the next had been jarring.
By majoki4 months ago in Fiction