Tag: future
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2012 July 30
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Did you look under the couch?
Earth had been a great home to us. But, the Sun was revving up to devour the inner planets, so we figured it was about time we pack the whole place up and archive it. No danger to the human species: We’d scattered ourselves across the galactic plane. There was no getting rid of us now, short of obliterating the whole Milky Way. [ ... 173 words ... ]
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2012 June 09
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On the Market
It had been a busy week: she’d had her teeth whitened, removed four tattoos, dyed her hair back to its natural color, and gotten her optical implants updated. She’d also lost 4 pounds, working furiously over the past month in the fitness center on the ground floor of her apartment building. Her body had never looked more toned. She almost didn’t want to leave it. [ ... 183 words ... ]
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2012 June 04
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Bookshelves
The day they moved in together, he remarked upon how heavy and numerous were all her boxes of books. [ ... 182 words ... ]
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2006 February 09
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A Long-Tailed Creative Yawp
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