Mark Bailey
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I make art and write. Currently have five sci fi novels in print, as well as many articles about crypto and blockchain in popular media. I love coffee, painting, and exploring emerging technologies.
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Summer Porcupine
Car exhaust mingled with the scent of late summer on the side of the Wisconsin highway. Keeping to the shoulder, Luke walked slowly home after visiting a nearby flea market. Seeing a small lump where the gravel met tall grass, he investigated, finding a dead porcupine. To Luke, at age twelve, the departed creature wasn't just roadkill. It was treasure.
By Mark Bailey5 years ago in Humans
The Key in the Notebook
Smoke rose from a crystalized blob of pinion sap dropped upon a charcoal. The incense masked the smell of molding cardboard coming from the heaps and piles of books occupying much of Bryan's small basement apartment. Bryan himself sat on the floor, scratching out a poem on the last page of a small black notebook with a pen he'd stolen from the coffee shop. The notebook itself had been rescued from the recycling bin outside that same coffee shop weeks ago. Then, it had been empty except for a cryptic code scrawled on its final page. Now, it was full of Bryan's notes and doodles and poems.
By Mark Bailey5 years ago in Humans
