“Are you here to stay?” she asked and I started to remember her. When I last saw her she had brighter hair and less swimsuit. She’d been one of the few Arnam that stayed through the Minnesota winters. We’d gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Imagine entire worlds filled with conversations. Imagine light and energy flowing from world to world. Imagine the depths of space alive with the thoughts of billions of intelligent minds. Imagine standing at the edge of a star system and looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mexican government suffered from similar issues as the old American federal government. Centuries of insider dealings and graft had generated a culture of corruption that no citizen trusted. And America’s default on Mexican loans brought down the government that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So there I was, innocently showing my two best girls around the place I grew up in, when an Arnam came out of the water. Now that’s normally not a strange thing. They live under the water after all. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Voyager swarms found easy homes in some systems. They were the first to arrive at many stars near Earth, many of which were never settled by humanity at all. If they didn’t have comfortable worlds, humanity didn’t follow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people forecasted the end of the United States of America when the federal government defaulted on their loans and the Second Great Depression swept across the globe. Those people did not reckon with political entities like the Republic of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love the water. It’s where I came to have fun and play on summer days. It’s where I relaxed and enjoyed bonfires on summer nights. I hooked up with friends over here in front of this café. I remember[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Voyager Program was designed to study the stars and tell us what they were like so humanity’s future generations could follow them. It is ironic that their discoveries helped humanity find the secrets to going to the stars[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Republic of Texas spearheaded the American involvement in ending the drug wars. Arizona, New Mexico, and the California Republics had their own parts of course, but the Texas Guard threw the greatest weight of weapons and men at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Betty is an old school kind of girl. She wears a lot of yellow sundresses, but she borrows a lot of ideas from Jasmine. Now Jasmine’s a new kind of girl, so dressing up to go out on the town[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…