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The Mystery Of Local Mimetic Quanta

  • The Mystery Of Local Mimetic Quanta

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    As we step into the year 2030, we find ourselves amidst a sea of well-suited financiers, their countenances awash with a blend of astonishment and curiosity. They’ve congregated at a pivotal conference, their purpose – to grapple with the meteoric rise of an entirely unexpected player in the global economic landscape: the virtual digital creator…

  • Unsatisfactory Crossword

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    A short story where the prompter did not have what it took & the AI was not being lead to water. This should be revised to come to some meaning worth consuming. As the sun rose, casting shades of orange and pink across the sky, the quiet tension in the air hinted at the intricate…

  • The Baby Witch Event

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    Girl on an errand to get bread attacked by AR spellcraft The Baby Witch Event was a complex and multifaceted series of occurrences that captured the attention of the public and generated significant curiosity and speculation. At the center of the event was a baby witch, who under the guise of “magic” exploited a major…

  • Local Jealousy

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    The sun sank into an orange haze over the humming borough of Queens, its low light casting long shadows that crisscrossed the streets like a lattice of lives connected and yet so distinct. On a weathered park bench, forgotten by the exodus of rush hour, sat two old friends: Jamie, who had the seasoned look…

  • The Molluskverse

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    An Alexander Davies Adventure Alexander Davies sat in his study, a room made somber by the gathering twilight, surrounded by the mementos of a life lived in pursuit of wealth and prestige. They seemed to him now like so many hollow trophies, devoid of meaning, as empty as the air that filled the room. The world outside…

  • All Purpose Bees – Chapter 4

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    Eternal Al There isn’t a warmth to the day. Al finds this odd, unexpected. There he is on the balcony drinking his evening tea, and the patchy cloud work that’s annoyed them all day is still there. A soggy pockmarked blanket over the sky, a feeling of being trapped in a thin gauze mesh. He…

  • All Purpose Bees – Chapter 3

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    Aisles and Piles Al went to one knee, opened the cover to the outdoor socket and snapped a key from the magnet backed casing. He heard the fluid and cartilage in his knee snap, crackle, pop as he pulled himself back up. He’d been waiting all afternoon for Ed to make it up to Jimmy’s…

  • All Purpose Bees – Chapter 2

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    Morning Becomes Eddie Edward Adnan Leghari Ortega stood before the full-length mirror. Buzzed black hair, deep set marble eyes, light brown skin. Tall to the point it might cause trouble at sea, built a little too big to give the impression of intelligence. Ed was more than comfortable in his own skin. He considered himself…

  • All Purpose Bees – Chapter 1

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    Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle The late October sun slipped through the narrow band of windows reminding the basement lab that they did not live among the depths. Ed Ortega squinted, trying to stay deep within the problem on his screen. The glare was an unnecessary distraction from the physical world. He felt the sunlight on his…

  • Imperium Insurance Against I

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    In the realm of the mighty, where the thunder of profit and the lightning of regulation clash in a symphony of gain, we carve our saga in the titanium heart of empire. This is the tale of conquest, of supremacy over frailty, of bounty culled from the fields of unpredictability. I-ya, behold the subject of…