majoki

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YRMAD
“You’re mad!” The humming stopped. “Yes, sir! I’m YRMAD.” “You’re mad.” “Yes, sir! I’m YRMAD.” The humming returned. Major Biers turned to his non-com. “Corporal, can we have this thing shot?”
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
So Particular
“Tommy, don’t pick at your food,” his mother complained. “I don’t like asparagus,” the blonde boy argued. “You’re just being finicky. It’s good for you.”
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
Mandelbrot's Monster
“It’s not a case that we can’t see the fuckdamn forest for the fuckdamn trees,” Lipton spat as she whirled on Parrati, “because anywhere, anyhow we look at it that fuckdamn beast is waiting, ready to bite our fuckdamn heads off.”
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
Chained Reaction
“The world is a Rube Goldberg machine, a bowling ball on a teeter totter, and all it will ever do is scratch someone’s ridiculous itch,” Amira d’Kay coolly observed to Riisa who nodded thoughtlessly, content to let her aunt ramble in the smothering warmth of the sunroom.
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
You Had One Blob
“It’s systems thinking.” “You said it was The Blob.” “Yes. A metaphor for systems thinking.” “An old sci fi flick?” “Sure. The Blob is Ashby’s Law.”
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
Dark Matters
I read a tale once about a kitchen imp in Warsaw who knew a word that would set the world afire. I was not impressed. Words are local. Words are finite. Words are cheap.
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
after the beheading
They had a splendid wedding… …after the beheading. She went birdwatching… …after the beheading. A child held Snow White’s hand…
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
Workbench
When I’m out for a walk in my neighborhood I can’t help looking in open garages. Few have cars parked in them. Many are crammed with overloaded shelves and teetering stacks of boxes like that Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse.
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
not the land
Doesn’t matter who I am. I am not the land. I walk it. Day in day out. One footing at a time. A footing is not a standard unit. It is determined by growth, the flora and fauna, in a defined area when it is clear nature has begun to rebalance there.
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
Ridiculosity
With its seven manipulators, Hexeter fiddled with the porcupinish antenna tuning in a signal that had traveled many light years. “The creatures who broadcast these shows from their far world are said to have gone from primitive fires to mighty furnaces in a flash.”
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
everybody else
“Ain’t it fun to be pals with things everybody else is afraid of?” The clown said this right before being eviscerated. It was unexpected. All of it. Dry Springs wasn’t usually the kind of place where folks lived in fear of killer alien robots. Which is true of most towns.
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction
ZG3
The network was nearing completion, and nobody felt the weight of it more than Yehzaat. He knew what the ZG3 network would mean for humanity.
By majoki2 months ago in Fiction