Possible Minds In An Impossible World_Martian Honour_The Bonsai and the Dock at the End of the Unive
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Possible Minds In An Impossible World
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”-Albert CamusOn a lovely spring morning, Beth and her family went out to have a picnic. It was a beautiful arrangement. As her children tussled over the plush green grass and her husband gently played along, as Beth bit into a ripened strawberry plucked from the garden, it dawned on her, this was as good as it would ever get. Eventually her faithful husband would grow bored of her body, her children would abandon their naive affection and begin to interact with their mother as a transaction towards what they want.Beth desperately wanted t...
Martian Honour
Jhagan held himself rigid, forcing his vision to remain forward as the river water shuddered and screamed. He breathed in, tasting the salty tang of the deep sea, steadying himself deep within his awareness. Before him the old martian river wailed and roared as his adversary arrived. The warrior breathed within the natural rebellion. Slowly, rhythmically he spoke, reciting the litanies and vigils taught to him since childhood. Tension bled from him, flowing down the steep river bank to mingle with the water’s rebellion below, gathering around the rusted remains of old terraforming river-mak...
The Bonsai and the Dock at the End of the Universe
Eleri Lloyd was not someone you'd expect to be a colonist. She was on the shorter side, with dirt brown hair, casually blue eyes, and a frame that had once been described as "kindly", in an unkind way. On Earth, she had been a housekeeper. Not even to a rich family. She had worked around her village in Wales, going from house to house to do whatever it was people needed. Cooking, cleaning, babysitting, etc. But here she sat, billions of light years from home, and a few hundred years older for it, without a single wrinkle to show for it. Cryogenic pods really were miracles for the skin. She s...
Becoming Echoan
Today’s the day I change. This is it, no turning back now. It’s a miracle of science, really, to alter one’s biology. After today the makeup of my blood will be changed at a cellular level to allow me to live on thiwww.onedoor.ccs new planet, my new home. My body will process the air I breathe differently so that I can subsist in the atmosphere of EchoB32、 There are other changes too, smaller ones, the list was long and filled with biology jargon. I know my skin will also adapt to absorb the rays from this foreign sun, and my kidneys to process the changes in my water source. I don’t fully understand the sc...