Speculative Vision

"What mystery?" he replied, "And why are you pronouncing it so oddly?"

I can also take control of people's minds using strings of seemingly innocuous words on internet forums.

I've been thinking through the entertaining possibilities of a high-tech chemical future. What might the possibilities or recreational and quality of life drugs be in a Utopian (or Dystopian) future. Would love to hear your ideas. Here's one for the pot: Double-Delicious: Makes everything you're eat...

You'd go a long way to beat these words from Wikipedia... "Fantasy: is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. The genre is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by overall look, feel, and theme of the individual ...

They had spent three long months trying to find the artifact since it's theft, and another three days here, trying to recover it from the lake. Three months under siege from the Nonsulate, and now all hope seemed lost. "Who could have done this?" Captain Skeld asked Blake, "Surely the ruin of the ar...

"No," she replied, "I'm having soup for lunch."

Nurse Blank removed several colorful plastic shapes from her pocket and proceeded to press them into her face like a Mr. Potato Head.

Here goes again then… hopefully it’s easier to read now. This is an extract from a much bigger piece, but it stands alone in so far as it has no prequel or follow up. The characters from the larger piece are playing a virtual game together in this "short story" which is loosely based on the Greek Go...

Please help! Here's the context... This is an extract from a much bigger piece, but it stands alone in so far as it has no prequel or follow up. The characters from the larger piece are playing a virtual game together in this "short story" which is losely based on the Greek Gods (comments on this ar...

Captain Blake and his sub-aqua team had just returned from their examination of the artifact and delivered the bad news. They looked as broken by the report they had to deliver as the artifact itself.

It was no good; it couldn't be fixed.

Hi I recently started the thread, "HERMAN - A Collaborative Story", and although the tale is fun indeed, it is not what I intended. So here is my second attempt. First however, I must apologize. Shortly after beginning "Herman", I left for a holiday in Vietnam, and have been absent from contributing...