Category: <span>Short story</span>

“The insistence on absolute good requires absolute tyranny.” —Cyril Teeter, Utopia: Implementation and Maintenance Upon entering the room, the quisitor smiled, almost sympathetically, thought 439, and took a chair across…

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“O cruel needless misunderstanding!  O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast!  Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose.  But it was all right, the struggle was…

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“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.  In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.”                    William O. Douglas The four of…

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“Technology is a wonderful thing.  Until it isn’t.”                 Articles of the Faith, Chapter of Acceptance, Verse 17 It was said the old man knew things.  That’s why I went…

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“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.”                 G.K. Chesterton “I’d always thought there’d be more…

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(A story for Natalie) Once upon a time there was a kingdom ruled by a wise king.  The people loved the king because he cared about his subjects and always…

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