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  • Every Animal Had a Choice – Selections from Wes E. L.’s Dream Journal 

    I didn’t ask, but a man I met recently at Malaprops told me about a story he’d read called “Yzur” that helped him realize that it could be possible that other animals species had evolved and developed the consciousness that humans enjoyed, that they too are capable of speech and the “human” constructs of community…

  • Druinte Social Society (Series 1) – Issue 1 – Paradise Lost

    AEA7 E, Eris, Erim [He, His, Him; She, Hers, Her respectively] It means so much to be apart of the universe’s most technologically advanced civilization; the Druintes know this well and carry the distinction as a badge of honor. They hesitate to call themselves a superior race because while they realize that their culture has…

  • Approaching Eternity – 4 – Solse and Joel in the Xx

    “Where were you?” Solse is irate and collecting himself. His horns hit against the side of the polycarbonate plastic of the helmet on his head that provides oxygen. He is in full astronaut gear, it is life support where he is now on some planet, if you can call it that, that can only be…

  • Approaching Eternity – 3 – The Prab Debates

    The Bromeris are not the homogenous society that they appear to be from a universal perspective. There is just one centralized government on the planet, the Ultimate Library that is helmed by the Nexus who serves as the planet’s political leader, but the planet Bromeran is twice the size of the planet Earth and has…

  • Approaching Eternity – 2 – Aeternus Machina

    The Bromeris are an intellectually competitive society. There is an annual, planet-wide award ceremony where the most distinguished members of the society are acknowledged for various superlatives accumulated over the year. There are exactly one hundred awards presented, for things such as longest recitation of a historical account from memory (the current record holder secured…

  • Approaching Eternity – 1 –

    The Bromeris civilization devotes the majority of its resources to the collection of knowledge. It is helpful to define the word “knowledge” as the Bromeris understand it. The culture believes that a true understanding of their world, their reality, and the universe at large, lies in completing the true timeline of the history of the…

  • Excerpt from the Encyclopedia of the Known Universe – Longevity 

    Editor’s Note: The lifespan figures presented below are calculated based on Relative Earth Time or RET.  The lifespan of the sentient populations of the known universe vary greatly from population to population. The average lifespan of an Earthling is 79 years, though the oldest living human being on Earth is 145 years old. The lifespan…

  • Excerpt from the Encyclopedia of the Known Universe – Hafjeran Dual Caste System

    Owners vs Renters On every planet in the universe, there are concepts of ownership, or the idea that a person, or being, can possess something and dictate the handling and care of that thing. The Hafjeris are a dual caste society, owners and renters, and it is unheard of, if not impossible for someone to…

  • Made in America (Series 1) – Issue 19 – Bloody Bloody Dr. Eakran

    What if every human mind on Earth is afflicted with mental disorder? The history of psychology, neurology, and every other field of science related to the human mind is extensive by now and over the course of that history, new terms and definitions have popped up to describe the various personality and behavioral traits that…

  • The Black Side of Paradise 9. Leeland

    The man known as Leeland was happy to celebrate the completion of his first year at college. It would be best to celebrate with friends, but not everyone has those, especially not him, what with his pompous attitude and aptitude for dishing out backhanded compliments to his peers. It was a part of himself that…