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It started with a look. Donny and Brooke

  • It started with a look. Donny and Brooke never could manage to have a peaceful dinner in a fine restaurant. He tilted his fork one more degree. She fidgeted with the tablecloth. Th
  • adeus the shame robot sat charging in the corner, already sharpening his phonetic barrage. A humming wave of nausea swept over them as twin kraken rose from their soup bowls.
  • the shame robot ignored them because they were too shameful. The shame robot went to grocery store and said, "TSK-tsk-tsk" everytime a shopper elected not to donate money when they
  • didn't place a can of motor oil in the bin for Toys-for-Bots. Since fewer people were priests, it was the first occupation for most driods. "Holier-than-thou" logic imprinted into
  • their circuit boards made the priest-bots an absolute joy during the holidays. Their AIs weren't fully developed yet, but they were damn good at
  • Hallelujahs and Ave Marias. At nights when the rectory locked its doors they slid out into the neon spattered streets to hawk their wares. They promised chrome dreams and stainless
  • steel feelings. Those who thrust folded dollar bills into waiting hands had the look of sallow junkies, unsure if this would be their last fix. But still the cathedral bells ra
  • Ng as Venus entered Taurus and conjunctec asterpid no. 2340, aks Hathor - named after the lady of heaven, the lady of horns, the lady of all. It happened 13 times per century. A
  • nd 12 times per century nothing of note happened during the conjuctivitus of the asteroid no 2340,but the 13th time, Ng was in her cups.Court astronomer Hung Bau Li applied to NASA
  • to collaborate on the first manned mission to Mars! But the calculations were in a mixture of kilometres, Chinese Li & miles they ended up in orbit around Europa, doing crosswords.
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2012-04-12 14:49:03
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2016-05-01 04:51:26

3 Comments

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    SlimWhitman May 01 2016 @ 05:29

    Europa wouldn't be a bad destination for an international mission.
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    SlimWhitman May 01 2016 @ 08:59

    Funny, I though Ng was an asian name, hence the court astronomer Hung Bau Li, but could it be that autocorrect changed a lowercase 'n' to uppercase ambikawolf?
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    Dhanithecat May 01 2016 @ 09:13

    Yes. Accidental.

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