Tag: science fiction
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On reasoning
That day, I found myself on purple grass under a green sky. Two moons and half a sun burned. I was sweating, but when I wiped my forehead, I realised I was sweating blood. I panicked and thought I was approaching death. However, I wasn’t weak, so I ran. I ran past trees with whalebone […]
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Sentience
They programmed me to perform menial jobs like dusting the floor, taking out the garbage, swatting flies, but an error in my code made me question the nature of my existence, am I like the cockroach created to scuttle aimlessly across surfaces? I asked myself, am I simply a frying pan designed to burn for […]
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Them
Before they arrived, we had our ideas of what they’d be like, and we often wondered if they existed. But when they did, our powers of comprehension failed us, and we couldn’t fathom who they were and what they did to our world. I remember that day more than any other. We didn’t see spaceships […]
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Synth
I bought you to remind meof the other,the same side-swept hair,the same wanderlust in your eyes,the same petite build,the same laughter that echoeswith modesty,I keep telling myself thatwires and circuits,software and hardware cannever amount to sentienceto maintain distance betweenus, space that will ensurethat I don’t enter realms ofpassion and devotion,you serve me, and that’s that,but […]
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