James Pyles's Blog, page 171
January 5, 2018
Panacea for Humanity
“What do you mean it can cure cancer, Noah?” “It is just as I said, Richard. Vogel has isolated the human gene variant that is related to all allergic and autoimmune diseases. Multiple sclerosis, asthma, Crohn’s disease, celiac disease, and type-1 diabetes can all be done away with across the board, that is, for all […]
January 4, 2018
Sex, Candy, and Murder
“Jemmy, who’s this bloody tart sitting in my chair?” “That you, Danno?” She was calling from the bedroom. Dan had come home high as usual. Having closed the door behind him after spending three minutes just getting the key in the lock, he was leaning back against it so he wouldn’t fall over. “Yeah, Luv. […]
The Winter Rose
Nancy clung to the base of a gas street lamp just across the street from St. Andrews shivering as she listened to the beautiful hymns and organ music late on Christmas Eve. The tiny child’s clothes were too thin to ward off the December chill and wind, and the cloth wrapped around the perforated soles […]
January 3, 2018
She Treats Us Like Her Children
A moment ago, seven-year-old Danilo was holding his little three-and-a-half-year-old sister Marikit in his arms. He was sitting on concrete steps in a filthy alley in Tondo where everyone was poor and there was no one to help. “I promise little Mari, I will take care of you.” He stroked her hair knowing it wasn’t […]
Whatever Happened to Jamaica?
“What is it, Al?” “Beats me Enrico, but my calculations say we’ve got another twelve hours and nineteen minutes to find out before the next reality shift occurs.” “We wouldn’t be in this mess if that plane carrying MIT’s experimental quantum resonator hadn’t overshot JFK International and crashed in Queens. I wonder why only Jamaica […]
January 2, 2018
Remembering Two Lives: Expanded Story
Landon remembered two childhoods and this was the second time he had turned twenty years old. Sitting on a bench on the Greenbelt by the Boise River, he contemplated how ordinary life had become as a university student. Every night he dreamed he was someplace else. Every night he dreamed he was someone else. Contemplating […]
Remembering Two Lives
Landon remembered two childhoods. Sitting at the Lauderdale Marina, he contemplated his ordinary life as a twenty-year-old student. “Are you a crane or a morphing bloodslayer about to rip out my throat?” The crane ignored the NSU sophomore and waited for its next meal to appear. He had been nine and his sister Dani was turning three […]
The Unwanted Gift
The public hoped after the spaceship carrying Klaatu and the robot Gort launched from the Ellipse just south of the White House, that it was all over. The newspapers, radio, and TV broadcasts reported the full text of the speech the alien had given to the international group of scientists assembled at the park by […]
Connectivity
People assumed he saw everything all at once, but if that were true, clearly the sensory overload would have driven him crazy the first half-second he’d been connected. The only reason it was possible at all was because of his unusual brain structure, specifically a complex network of interconnections that “shadowed” the typical systemic neurology […]
A Brief Respite from Hell
Finally I can relax for a little while. It’s such a nice afternoon. I don’t own a boat but I love this marina. The bird doesn’t have a care. Oh to be like the bird simply standing in the water near a small tree waiting for lunch to swim by. I know the people on […]
