With grease still on my hands, I put my rifle down and unloaded my gear. The rough, olive drab was a second skin by now, not just my own, but of everyone it seemed. Greenish grey and greyish green stitched a patchwork between all aspects of life over there. Finding a seat set aside from […]
Read more "With Grease Still On My Hands, Part 1 of 5"The first mission I ever got was a complete crock. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame the agency (much), and would’ve done the same in their shoes, but being in my shoes? Man. Just get a load of this nonsense: mission: infiltrate a highly sensitive finance office; gather intel on recent disappearances of three, high-profile VPs parameters: time […]
Read more "555-Word Spygame"For what seemed like a long time, I thought I might be falling. Though if so, very slowly as there was no wind rushing by; just floating maybe. It was still entirely dark and silent. Really, there was no evidence that I was moving in any way, it was just a thought. I forgot it […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Epilogue"Hi. If you’re reading this, that means that even though I’ve just been told that I’m not a person but actually a piece of programming code, which I’ve now confirmed by manipulating the very environment in which I’m in, I’ve still maintained keeping up my journal. Being as I’m currently writing it, I know that […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Finale"Climbing and climbing, in pitch black. I began to lose my sense of even up or down. My hands rode the damp, rain-smoothed stone walls, for I could find no rope or rail to guide me. Step. Step. Step. One at a time, I can’t trip. I must get to the top right away. I’ve […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 8 (of 10)"For the record, I don’t typically remember my dreams. Certainly wish I did; would make great fuel for more stories! But while I slept in that space viking’s chamber, bright lights filled my view, and a small audience of shadows encircled me. It was all quite blurry as for the visuals, but the audio was […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 6 (of 10)"When I consider the many ways in which a story can be told, 2 big types come to mind: Third-Person and First-Person. Today, I feel like telling one story in 2 different ways… First, the third-person: “The first time Arthur stepped foot in this grand, court, he was a much younger man. Wind had swept his […]
Read more "Third-Person vs. First-Person; Experimenting"A subito crescendo of light knocked me to the ground entirely; my every sense was overwhelmed. Once my eyes adjusted to the scene, it was my brain to be toppled, as there before me was a scene of something out of only fantasy and film. An entirely marble room, the size of a basketball court, with […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 4 (of 10)"Day 1 Well, I’ve never expected this to happen. I’m just standing there, minding my own business, when all of the sudden POOF. I’m in a lab. And not just any lab mind you! I’m in the psychoanalysis lab of the one and only Dr. Charles Lyman, master of that which can be known, thought […]
Read more "Artificial Intelligence, Part 2 (of 10)"In an instant, everything became clear. This was never a game at all. This was the very last wish of a dying man, who never truly believed his dreams would be fulfilled, and only now, only in this final and desperate act…his trust was in me to make every minute to have finally meant something. […]
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Satisfied Fool 