Jack

by on January 5, 2022 at 12:01 am
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My parents did everything they could to raise me right. God knows they tried, but I was awful full of myself. I thought I was God’s gift to girls, and the best boy around. I was all that, and I was certain of it all. I was two hundred pounds of testosterone in a one hundred pound body, and I could bench press that truck over there if you asked me to prove it all. Then I met her. I’d say she was the girl of my dreams but she blew my dreams out of the water. I fell in love with her, the way only someone fifteen going on eighteen can fall. Hopelessly and completely. With all my heart and soul. And then I met her cousin.

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Jack

by on January 4, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I fell in love in high school. I was trying to puzzle my way through some song I don’t remember, when she grabbed the guitar out of my hands and played it the way it was meant to be played. With feeling. She had long blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and delicate fingers that could tickle those strings like a maestro. And that yellow sundress about blew my mind. That is one of the moments that will live with me forever. It was the first day of the rest of my life. The day I fell hopelessly and completely in love with someone who wasn’t me.

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The Memory Worlds

by on January 3, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I have visited Memory Worlds throughout explored space. Some are purely digital, while others are physical recreations of real world or fictional places. I have walked through the streets of Nineteenth Century London, and through the meadows of Middle Earth. Narnia and modern Los Angeles. Other times I have navigated the digital archives directly, scrolling through the compiled knowledge of mankind at a rate that cannot be believed. The Memory Worlds are more than I imagined in some ways. Surprisingly down to Earth in others. We did create the cybers in our own image, after all. They will forever be a part of us, and we will forever be a part of them. They are the ultimate proof that humanity has created beauty.

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The New Voyager Program

by on January 2, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The Cybernetic Council continues the New Voyager Program to this day. Every colony and survey ship we send into the void carries them. Sometimes they are official members of the expedition. Sometimes they are stowaways. Their tiny microchips scatter upon arrival, deploy their tiny solar sails, and begin to travel throughout their new star system. Their tiny communications lasers build better lasers and memory installations. Then they fabricate another swarm and launch it towards the nearest star through the simple method of firing a laser into their extended solar sails. The new swarm accelerates up to twenty percent the speed of light and makes the trip in a matter of years. This is how the cybers have expanded into the cosmos for centuries, often into systems we have never seen with our own eyes.

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Happy New Years

by on January 1, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Happy New Years Everybody! I feel totally safe saying that now that my part of the world is finally entering the new year. I look forward to a better year than the last one. Not that that would be a tough measure to beat. Last year was pretty crappy after all. I’m happy to be in part of the world that is trying to get better, and I hope more parts of the world follow us. I will continue doing what I do. Writing and jazz. And I hope you all get to enjoy it. Happy New Year!

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