Category: Writing
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Staring Into The Distance
I first noticed the old woman about a year ago. She just sat there, staring at something in the distance, perched on a fallen tree, her back seemingly to the rest of the world. I asked around, and it turns out she’s been there ever since anyone can remember. Day and night, people pass her,…
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End Of Level Boss
We took a vote on it. Looking back now though, it wasn’t exactly they best way to have done it. There were no ballot boxes, or polling places. We just sent a text to a number at the bottom of the screen. We’d been watching those screens for weeks, ever since the giant ship appeared…
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Rich Food
The revolution came when we least expected it. For years it felt like it had been brewing, just bubbling beneath the surface, with social trauma after social trauma feeling like it would upend everything. And then that just stopped. Dunno why. Everything just … calmed down a bit. It was like the energy had run…
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The Clout Paradox
You know that feeling when you have an idea, and you sort of have a double take moment when you realise it’s a bad one? Or when you realise you had a good one and forgot it? Yeah, well, this is about that. Lightbulb moments happen more than we think. Well, they don’t. By definition,…
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The Heckler Continuum
Doublethink Dave. That was his nickname. It used to be one they used behind his back, but now they were outright saying it to his face. It didn’t really make sense either, maybe in a vague way, and they just thought the alliteration made up for the misnomer. What he did wasn’t doublethink. It was…
