The Keeping_Falling Into Lucidity_Death Wears a Smile and Promises Light_JUPONIUM
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The Keeping
Pater smiled faintly at the feel of spring sunshine on his face, eyes closed as he reclined under the pear tree crowning Red Hill. The day had been hard. In all his years collecting King’s Tariff, he’d never felt so close to fleeing. The look in that poor widow’s eyes. All the same excuses he heard on the daily, something in those eyes, the sincerity, the helpless plea. Yeah, today had been hard. Hardest yet. All the easy days are behind us, his father was fond of saying. But old man Poll was busy fertilizing the willow now, coming on 8 years. All his days behind him, easy and hard alike. So P...
Falwww.onedoor.ccling Into Lucidity
January 11th First time I’ve had the elevator dream since Doc told me to start this journal. Fourth time I’ve had it total, I think, maybe fifth. It’s always the same.In the dream, I’m just getting off work, except it’s later than usual and I’m the only one left in the office. I fill out my timesheet, set my desktop to sleep mode, and head toward the elevator. I’m the only one on it, and instead of starting from the 33rd floor, I’m on the 400th floor. I press the button for the lobby and the elevator begins its slow descent. It beeps as it passes each floor on the way down, never stopping, nev...
Death Wears a Smile and Promises Light
The town slept as the sun dipped into mountains, but as the night air flooded coolly into town, they were awakened at the sound of footsteps. Strange, they thought as not many rolled into town at this time of day, and even less carried a man-sized coffin behind them.His hair was a thick black, the color of night, and his face sat behind a soft, red scarf. He walked with no hesitation as the eyes lining the two-story houses and small-time shops observed his every move. His blue eyes returned their gazes one at a time, and slowly, the townsfolk turned to each other, their whispers quieter than t...
JUPONIUM
I start with a story: ‘I am on Gaia2 – earth’s twin – which is about 800 years behind earth in evolution and live in a village with my wife. Since we lived in a tropical village we didn’t need much climatic protection. That is why we natives covered ourselves only from waist down. Mine was a big farm and I had chicken and ducks on our land. We had a pool at the end of our land in which fish were stocked. Grains were supplied to us from fields of others. We had cows too, and we produced honey ourselves. We produced oil working the manual extractor. My duties were clearly defined. I had to sup...