I stood outside my one-room apartment. It was nearly 4 AM. I had padlocked my front door and gone outside the gate with my one suitcase and a plastic basket for my cat. Said cat was on my shoulder, because I had already discovered that he hated the basket and […]
Angkor Trio
Jungle Seeded stone split, bred shoots, roots—life strangled secrets for a thousand years. Monkey Five-fingered feet lope, thief gibbering at lost gods. Beast with human eyes. Stream Stone bed monsoon-filled, liquid glass running over carvings magnified. The Khmer (Cambodian) Empire once ruled over much of Southeast Asia, and its kings […]
A Denunciation of Teleportation
I’ve been doing some thinking lately about teleportation, and I have concluded that I am totally against it. Doubtless you have seen those futuristic films where characters gleefully transport across great distances through a single, instantaneous, leap. Doesn’t it seem wonderful? Wouldn’t it be nice to do away with all […]