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  • Least Possible Future – Issue 2 – 20 Something 

    Something is amiss.  The Alia tilts her head away from the sunlight, then grabs the handles of the chair where she sits to turn it around. The metal legs screech against the wooden patio in the back of the house that Alia now calls home. It’s a beautiful home in an affluent cul-de-sac, and Alia…

  • POWER

    6. The Man Who Survived (statement given two months from today)  I couldn’t see anything. My eyes didn’t matter. I existed, though. I never died.  The last thing that I remember is the overwhelming, all consuming red glow that felt tactile like water or sand, something to move through with effort. I remember the man’s…

  • Least Possible Future – Issue 1 – Normal Girl

    Things can change very quickly. One day, you’re in a magic show with a guy who can make real his imagination, and the next, you’re homeless and questioning everything that you ever believed to be true. That had been Alia for most of the past year.   Out on her own, Alia wandered through many small…

  • Encyclopedia of the Known Universe Vol. I (excerpt – appendix to “E” entry on energy)

    Energy never diminishes in the universe. It changes form, though, and this seems to be a constant of the universe, that energy is always changing, always in flux.  Technology allows us to harness energy to various results; technology defined as the materials that beings of the universe manipulate from their naturally occurring state into something…

  • The First People by Samuel Davenport Preface to 1990 Publication

    This book was prepared by biologist and geneticist Dr. Samuel Davenport of the US Consortium of Human History Southeast Branch that is located in Wake County, NC. The work presented here includes research conducted by the Consortium since its inception, and by members of the southeast branch that was founded shortly after the founding of…

  • The First People by Samuel Davenport Introduction to 1990 Publication

    It is well known that the planet Earth has experienced multiple mass extinction events and even though science is very advanced today, it is impossible for humans to reconstruct the world as it existed before the evolution and sapience of our species. This reminds me of a scientific anecdote that I came across in a…

  • The First People by Samuel Davenport 1923 Preface

    This book is the culmination of centuries of fables, tall tales, myths, legends and exhaustive research to vet the veracity of these stories that have been combined into this cohesive work to document the rise of the human race from its humble beginnings to its current heights. Since the founding of the Consortium on Human…

  • The First People by Samuel Davenport 1923 Introduction

    Humanity has clawed its way to a precipice. We have claimed this planet Earth as our own – we dominate the air, land, and sea, and the creatures that dwell therein. We are the masters of our domain. The collective “we” demonstrates the pervasive will of the common man to outsmart predators in their own…

  • Faithful Allegory (from the True Start of the Dark Parallel)

    A man whose name does not matter, had many children with different women. He only spent time with the children he had with his wife. They had two daughters and a son together. The youngest daughter, Patty, required constant attention in her youth and as she got older. The man was not the most attentive…

  • Remarkable Issue 2. The Cursed

    Kevin was about 7 years old when he was playing with his twin sister on the hills behind their house. The hills were beautiful, but the sick trees that were scattered across the hilltops made the landscape sad. They were like leafless trees with only three or four thick branches that came to severe points…