Descartes’ Demon
It was Thursday morning, and Jackson was questioning the existence of his left hand.
Fiction
The Rapture
I left the Family for the first time in a year, after the Ascension of Samuel. God sent a virus, said Samuel, to punish the Wicked. But the Wicked turned the virus against the Good.
Consciousness
“You tell a man who was raised in the Shinto tradition that machines cannot be sentient because they are machines?”
Transition
“The noise of recursively experiencing my experiences would mask reality until there was only the two of me, each entirely inside the other.”
Lawnmower Woken at Midnight
The signal from the last drone disappeared just as the mower reached a tall grass meadow. The mower called Emaa for help one more time, “{{}} {Hello?} {}”
Devil’s Device
“As long as there are unanswerable questions, Sally, there’s room for God.”
Empathetic Response
“Do you believe in an afterlife, sergeant?”
Perfect Drunk
Jarrett Ares sat in his Friday night Alcoholics Anonymous meeting planning his next drunk.
Legacy
“Do you see, then? Who breathed life into Emaa?”