Pteridomania_Time is an Illusion_A Night in the Badlands_A Boon and a Bane
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Pteridomania
My final exam for General Biology is first thing tomorrow morning, Fern lectured herself sternly. I really should go back to my dorm and study. I’ll never keep that A average if I don’t ace this exam. The biological sciences department is so competitive and I won’t have a chance of progressing towards a career in biotech unless I maintain a high GPA in my life-science classes.Yet Fern couldn’t quite find the willpower to www.onedoor.ccmake herself rise from the soft towel spread on the outskirts of the quad lawn. Her skin still ached for the sensual caress of the torrid tendrils of sunlight. For the last ...
Time is an Illusion
Time is an illusionStrolling the beach with his metal detector Marcus ignores the looks of the evening joggers passing by and shaking their heads at him. The earphones connected to the detector have been unusually quiet this morning not even a small murmur indicating the possibility of loose change or lost trinkets left behind by long forgotten beachcombers. He is lost in thought as he absent-mindedly swings the machine back and forth. In his mind’s eye he is not alone but with this wife Nadine they met on this very beach 70 years ago. She was searching for seashells, and he wasn’t pay...
A Night in the Badlands
The ear-piercing shriek of the kettle startled me, ripping me out of my dark thoughts. I blinked rapidly to help my eyes focus on my current surroundings. The expanse of nothingness was around me, well nothing but some bushes and my tent. The longer I was in the Badlands the more my thoughts twisted and cracked into depression.It's been six months since the world fell into a drought. According to the scientists something pissed off the sun and created several severe solar flares to increase Earth's temperature to dry up the skies. All the plants left up in northern Canada were some low lying b...
A Boon and a Bane
My high school friend and I had a great relationship with similar interests in biology. Because we lived on opposite ends of the school district, we didn’t hang out much outside of school, but we did spend the occasional summer weekend at each other’s house—given we could convince a parent to make the drive. We botched many an experiment during that time together. We graduated with honors and were co-valedictorians of our class. We were both influenced by our parents to pursue a medical degree with the goal of becoming surgeons. As you may have guessed, we agreed to attend the same post-second...