I am Spinach_Diary of a Scientist_Herb Goes Hermit_Asta Disappears
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I am Spinach
I am Spinach He thinks he had a choice in my living with him and his mom, and I will leave it at that. I saw him walk into the SPCA that Saturday back in 2020. I could feel the need, the want, and the fun yet to be had. The last person I chose didn’t want my abilities; I’m a calming force. I’m cute, small in stature, and cuddly. I remind him of a dog he only remembers from stories and pictures. I look like a miniature version of her favorite childhood pet. I’m the perfect shade of tan with some markings of a German Shepherd, but I will never get that big. I’m quiet until I see rabbits or deer ...
Diary of a Scientist
Saturday, May 26Getting fired may well be the making of me. Can science, true science, flourish in a large institution? The Melville Neurological Institute talked a good game, always promising me freedom of scientific research, but, when it came to the crunch, they let the bean-counters shut me down.I don’t think I was unreasonable. I recognize the need for institutional bureaucracy—I enjoy a regular supply of clean pipettes as much as the next research scientist—but no bean-counter EVER comes into MY laboratory and tells me what to do with my elevators and spreaders!Turning my basement into a...
Herb Goes Hermit
Herb Goes Hermit Herb peered over the top of his cubicle, mesmerized by the agonizingly slow movement of the minute hand on the clock at the far side of the room. In his one lone, exhilarating act of defiance, he had tossed his watch into the waste basket in the company cafeteria years ago. Everything else in his life was constraining and suffocating. As illusory as it was, Herb could at least imagine he was freed from the bonds of time.Time. 34 years = 408 months = 1,768 weeks =12,410 days = 297,840 hours = 17,870,400 minutes. The last 20 minutes would be the most painful for Herb- anxiety so...
Asta Disappears
Asta Disappearsby Rick Messner"He's gotta be somewhere around here.""Why do you think that?""I don't know, just a feeling, I guess.""Well, I think your feeling is wrong, he's not here.""How do you know, we've hardly looked.""I have feelings, too and mine say he's not here and not only that, they say he was in the red car that raced by a couple minutes ago.""Did you see him in therewww.onedoor.cc?""No, but I think he was or could have been.""I saw the same red car and he wasn't in there.""It was going pretty fast so you can't be sure.""Neither can you.""What was that?""What was what?""I heard something, it ...