(a black & white gnovel for film) Wehrmacht refugees struggle out from gloom. Step from the desert into Las Vegas Game Show. Flip into numbers and cross time as compucard data in bubble memories. Information transfer and retrieval. Home viewer (nuclear unit head) enters desired program. Pushes PLAY. Hendrix at Monterey Pop. Stutterframe transition to …
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Circle-O-Fear
Base: X-ray Papa Victor raising Echo Romeo Foxtrap, do you splinter? Airborne: Patch— Base: X-ray Papa Victor vectoring Echo Romeo. We have you cresting and You’re all the way. Airborne: Number two and climbing. Haven’t got there yet, Big Papa. Base: Stop thinking. Don’t concentrate. Your brain will start oozing out your ears like the …
What’s that smell?
Food and Whine by Mr. Verbose While we are all aware that most Americans get their B vitamins and protein from animal sources, in Southeast Asia it is quite a different story. In the countries of Laos, Kampuchea, Thailand and Vietnam, it is fish sauce which is an important source of these nutrients. To the …
Earth Mother Tells the Sad Tale of Marriage for Money
(Dark glasses in place? Good, let’s begin…) It was a cool and breezy afternoon when he breezed in through the open door. He appeared cool and open to all who peered at him. When he spoke, however, there was a slight chill in his voice. A coolness which bespoke of an anxiety-ridden past. Anxiously, the …
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Spanner, Please
“Spanner, please,” he said as he flailed with his hand outside the bonnet; his head inside. I toddled from the stoop and found it for him. The hand took it greedily and disappeared to join the head. “How would you go about describing smoke?” I ventured. I couldn’t see any response, but there was a …
Suzanne
She had black cloud-hair that billowed and played invitingly in the light and water-well eyes that pooled back black over a glistening sun-smile. She wore see-through stockings that made her legs slick rivers flowing out of a slick fish-patterened silk dress which caught the breeze and undulated waves across her belly and ass. The dress …
Untitled
Drawn, as I am, to polarities, I feel my being expand to cover distant points of view. My body dissolves into a thin gelatinous film as I am stretched taut between possibilities. Suspended in this manner, I am completely immobile—an ellipsoid Martyr to abstraction. In this, my larval stage, I am afforded a comfortable geometric …
Salivating
My commandant declassified all that we were told so we knew it was hunky-dory After he proclaimed me persona non grata I began to have my doubts. But I reasoned that he had God on his side so what could a robot do? Anyway, I called to tell you we lost both engines and are …
The D.N.A. Team
23 years ago, a crack genetics research unit was sent to prison for a clone they didn’t create. They promptly escaped to the Los Angeles gene pool, where they continue to perform microsurgery—for a price. So, if you’ve got a problem, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire