Hello, my name is Betty

by on November 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Humanity has created many great and terrible things in its time in the sun. Spears. Stories. Swords. Plays. Guns. Movies. Nuclear weapons. Cat videos. What humanity has done with those creations is what has changed the worlds. They have brought joy and terror. Laughter and weeping. Calm and manic paranoia. Humanity can build worlds up, or it can bring them down. The very gift of sapience that makes humanity amazing, can also make them terrible. Humanity brings the twins, good and evil, wherever it goes. That is humanity’s gift. And humanity’s curse.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 30, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I have visited the ruins of the people who lived on our worlds before we did. There are not many left, but they can be found if you look hard enough. Our government is not the only one who has tried to erase them from history. It can be seen in all of the ruins. They did not die out in the distant past. They were destroyed. They were defeated. They were wiped out. They were erased from history. Who hated them enough to want to erase the very memory of their existence from the universe? And what can we do about it now?

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Speed

by on October 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I asked, “Wanna race?”

She snorted and said, “With what?”

I was feeling real proud when I waved at the new sports car.

She snorted at me. “Please. My two wheels have more speed than all four of yours combined. You’d be so far back, even the cops would refuse to give me a ticket for street racing!”

That’s when I got a little indignant. “Well, fine. If you’re too scared to race me, I’ll just find someone else.”

“Oh, I’ll race you,” she said with a wicked smile. “I’ll race you anytime and anywhere.”

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Shang attacked us without warning. That is what most people are taught in school. But it is not true. They did warn us. We simply did not take their warnings seriously. They were too polite. Too quiet. And too ridiculous to believe. Who would go to war over intelligent cats and dogs? But they were just a symptom. One bright example we have always had of how genetic engineering has made our worlds better. But the Shang saw all the horrible things we could do with that power. How we could twist nature to our ends. They believed we were a threat to the very nature of life in the galaxy. That is why they attacked us.

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