The iceberg breaking hull was a master chef’s knife, wasted and gliding deftly through calm, buttery arctic waters. Clouds were pulling themselves apart and winter’s night sky constellations shone torchlights across scattered icebergs safely in the shadowy distance. This polar expedition passed quietly as the crew laid slumber and the captain handed over the night’sContinue reading “A Captain’s Compass North “
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Dead On Stats & Datasets
Dead On Stats & Datasets, a playfully paranoid sci-fi, by Paul Carreo Sometimes the truth has set a collision course, ready to knock you on your ass like a box truck. And in the case of Arthur Slate, it was quite literally a box truck that knocked him over his head with an unexpected truth.Continue reading “Dead On Stats & Datasets”
Caught in a peaceful wave function
I think a lot about superpositions. I don’t claim to be a die-hard science geek, but I do flirt with the occasional layperson’s physics books. Carl Sagan, David Grinspoon, Stephen Hawking, Neil to the Dee G T! Superpositions tell me how to understand competing truths, infinite possibilities, and things that just defy logic. There areContinue reading “Caught in a peaceful wave function “
The Haunting of Mr. Query
The Haunting of Mr. Query, a gothic tale by Paul Carreo It was an autumn of lamentations, the day I broke my fell stare from pale rain-blurred windows. My name is Franklin Arthur Query of the House of Query, the last of my line. I was spending my waning days scratching at the bones ofContinue reading “The Haunting of Mr. Query”
Tiny Dormant Treasures
Meditations in your fathers garden You walk the garden and you feel them buried beneath. There’s an energy humming, a vibration of life, something sleeping, something wonderful, waiting in the dirt and the darkness. But waiting for what? The right conditions? The perfect season? Their best chance to be observed and admired by the bestContinue reading “Tiny Dormant Treasures”
Never play below your level
It will be tempting to engage when people are at their worst. It will be easy to sacrifice all the dignity and composure you’ve built up in your wiser middle years. People will test you, probe for the weak chinks in your fence. They don’t mean to, it comes from deep inside them, a needContinue reading “Never play below your level”
A Relegated Ship, Run Aground & Derelict (Pt.2 of 2)
Part Two: Invisible Mobs & Monsters By the centennial year of the 1916 Easter Rising, the spirit of Dublin started to sing again, a song of redemption. The bones of the economy and the investments in finance and tech were paying dividends. The commercial real estate engine started revving again, as these global tech giantsContinue reading “A Relegated Ship, Run Aground & Derelict (Pt.2 of 2)”
A Relegated Ship, Run Aground & Derelict (Pt.1 of 2)
Part One: A Relegated Ship, Run Aground & Derelict She was an old merchant ship, the oldest remaining in Ireland, moored to rest along the banks of the Grand Canal. She was named the Naomh Éanna (Neev Ay-na). Completed in Dublin’s Liffey Dockyard in 1958, sailing in her prime as an Aran Islands ferry, sheContinue reading “A Relegated Ship, Run Aground & Derelict (Pt.1 of 2)”
Unleashed with Dogged Intent
Have you ever seen an unleashed dog walking the sidewalk with all the authority of any other morning commuter? Your first thought will be to scan around for the owner. A dog without a leash is totally common in this neighborhood, but you’ll want to see any manner of upright individuals minding their ward inContinue reading “Unleashed with Dogged Intent”
New Phone, Who Dis?
New Phone, Who Dis? a sci-fi short | PART ONE (OF THREE) Look, before we start rolling, you have to promise again you won’t edit me as some lunatic conspiracy theorist. I’ve had enough trouble with alien invasion fanatics, new age cults camping outside my house. I only want to present the facts and getContinue reading “New Phone, Who Dis?”
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