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Time Zone

By: Tom Lichtenberg

...This is not your father’s time travel. There’s no machine, no dial. There’s no telling where or when you’ll go. The only thing that can change is you. It will make you what it needs to make you. And if you come back, it won’t be the same you. You’re messing with the nature o...

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Fidel

By: Rigby Taylor

...se. ‘I can’t believe how stupid I am…I've come out without any cash.’ She pulled out a credit card and pointed down the road. ‘Look, there’s a cash machine along there in front of that bank. You go and pay for me, then we’ll drive down and I’ll take out the money and repay you.’ Her smile was so disarming, so honest, that without the slightest twinge of doubt Fidel ran...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ur apartment: for the tape recorder?" he asked. She turned off the machine without the least concern about a distraction deferring her scholar... ...ables and chairs in the center and woks, burners, a refrigerator, and Coke machine in the front. It had taken the family so many years of working on t... ...penthouse but was a sidewalk-based seamster with his little antique sewing machine, a pedal, and a hill of torn clothes he was supposed to sew. He wa... ...e sustenance), sidewalk seamstresses with their antique foot pumped sewing machines, and a man with a bicycle-pulled ice-cream cart who stood there sc...

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Munir

By: Christian Sorensen
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Suzy

By: Gary L Beer

...ld newspapers. Going into the bathroom she runs the water for a bath. Stripping off her clothes she walks to the kitchen and puts them in the washing machine. Putting it on a very hot wash she turns it on and goes back into the bathroom for her bath. The morning light wakes her, as does the noisy dog three doors away. Frowning in annoyance Suzy buries herself in the bed...

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My Dear Sister-in-law

By: Manohar Asija

...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner. Simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks, ...

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Poorness

By: Jan De Raeymaeker

... Dank 5 Me enemy 6 Stones far from home 8 Machine cleaned 9 Insightful incite 10 Around the Park 12 God bless 13 Sound me 14 Seamus 15 Cackle 16 Madcap and Dove 17 Drifting off 18 Dis Deus 19 Donegal 20 Abandon God 21 Earlsfort a...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...el less safe than something with two wheels and no walls. The truck had a machinegun mounted in the back with a belt feed of 5.65 mm rounds. She was... ...the driver’s seat and Ron jumped into the back of the truck and armed the machinegun. Lexi started up the bike at the same time that Derek started t... ...d Ron panicking. “Shoot at them moron!” Derek yelled at him. Ron moved the machinegun and opened fre on the bladeless helicopter. He had never fred a... ...gun and opened fre on the bladeless helicopter. He had never fred a heavy machinegun before. Actu- ally, prior to the Flash Storm, he had never even ... ... “Vincent, you come storming in here with outrageous claims of some giant machine that’s going to wipe us all out and you have a Seeker over your sh... ...about New Haven were be- ing gunned down. Those in the path of the massive machine of death and destruction were shredded to tiny pieces. The panic ... ...t fve feet away. He had not drawn his gun, but the others had various sub-machineguns and shotguns. “That’s a nice set of wheels you’ve got. I don’t ... ...pe of helmet with several probes and sensors that connected it to a large machine. The machine had a large crystal, surrounded by glass in the middl... ... gone by? Something ex- ploded. There was fre. People were screaming. That machine, it was in fames. The crystal had burst into shards. Vincent looke...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

... Jasmin smiled at the young porter who was getting a cup of tea from the vending machine near the shop. His name was 32 Tommy and he was in his... ...to the hospital. Tommy, who’d deliberately timed his appearance at the vending machine to coincide with the end of Jasmin’s broadcast, pretended t... ...ery bad way because his head was bandaged and he seemed to be on a life-support machine. Standing next to the bed – handcuffed to it, noted Sam – w... ...is deteriorating. He should never have been moved. Both he and the life-support machine need constant attention. He needs more fluids and nutrition... ...him, but I can’t take all the equipment.” “How long will he last outside of that machine?” asked Harden. Dr Soames just shook his head. Yet anothe... ...e that had fallen on him. Swiftly, she disconnected Philip from the life-support machine, lifted his body off the bed and left the ward. Time to ask...

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In the Outback with Jasmine Banks

By: Ronit Baras

...ith other buildings spread out around it. A fleet of four cars and heavy machinery was parked under a huge covered area. “We live in this good-loo... ...ream of incoming phone calls. She cleaned her desk, pressed the answering machine button and went home. In the Banks house, it was 2pm before Jay...

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I'Ll Do Anything

By: Chrystal Kincaid

...ent, really. Cade had seen her in the small copy room cursing over the fax machine. Before he could offer to help, Julia leaned over the machine an... ...n done. The harder he tried, the more he closed himself off. Cade was a machine. Work, sleep, eat, and occasionally, fuck. He wouldn’t pretty u... ...d her. Another woman. Automatically, Julia smiled and nodded. A media machine, she avoided direct gazes and refused to comment with the subtle...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... they were some form of solicitation, or someone he had no desire to talk with. After the machine responded with “No one’s here; please leave a messa... ... her again. He entered his apartment to a red eye blinking incessantly on his answering machine. He pressed the message button; it hummed until a r... ...At first, it made no sense, then I realized he was staring at the red light on the coffee machine. I shut it off, and he stopped walking. That was t...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...on mawla's 27"-screen with Dolby stereo sound; and the deadly cold killing machines of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. One minute he could see wh... ...an his "artisan" skills to make a useful weapon. But having mawla's mate's machinery available to him encouraged him about his prospects. He had at le...

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Sookshichuvacha Mayilpeeli : Collection of Short Stories

By: Harikumar Edasseri

...inny children with small chests and big unhealthy belly. In front of them poverty was strewn around like dirt in carpet of affluence, and he with his machine with unlimited capabilities sweeps the poverty and the children become handsome and pretty. Watching the smile on his sleeping friend, John Mathew became thoughtful. (Aparasadhyathakalulla Oru Yanthram)...

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Rossum's Universal Robots

By: Karel Capek

...count. Do you play the piano? HELENA Yes. DOMIN That's good. But a working machine must not play the piano, must not feel happy, must not do a whole ... ...u spoke of lies. HELENA You wouldn't have her killed? DOMIN You can't kill machines. R. U. R. I-13 HELENA Don't be afraid, Sulla, I won't let you go.... ...work, Miss Glory! One Robot can replace two and a half workmen. The human machine, Miss Glory, was terribly imperfect. It had to be removed sooner o... ...!–– and ensure good treatment for them. FABRY Not a bad object, either. A machine has to be treated properly. Upon my soul, I approve of that. I don... ... damage to himself because it doesn't hurt him. He puts his hand into the machine, breaks his finger, smashes his head, its all the same to him. We ... ... without price. There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines. Everybody will be free from worry and liberated from the degrada... ... perfect himself. He shall serve neither matter nor man. He will not be a machine and a device for production. He will be Lord of creation. BUSMAN A... ...ill all mankind. Spare no men. Spare no women. Save factories, railways, machinery, mines, and raw materials. Destroy the rest. Then return to work... ...crust of bread. I wanted not a single soul to be broken by other people's machinery. I wanted nothing, nothing, nothing to be left of this appalling...

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The Wise Heart: Tales and Allegories of Three Contemporary Sages

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...n the earth - Baal HaSulam - 28 correcting n ature - Rabash - 29 a Perfect machine - Michael Laitman - 30 a Wheel in society - Baal HaSulam - 31 The B... ... world enjoying fire, rather than fleeing it. 30 The Wise Heart a Perfect Machine Based on a lecture by Michael Laitman (December 15, 2006) People ca... ... (December 15, 2006) People can be happy only when connected To the entire machine. To the extent of disconnection We aren’t nourished from its perfec... ...o the extent of disconnection We aren’t nourished from its perfection. The machine is perfect, since it is operated by The law of unconditional giving... ...tional giving. and we must adhere to that law as inseparable parts of that machine. The Wise Heart 31 a Wheel in Society From the Essay “Peace in the... ...individual is like a wheel, Joined with numerous others, all placed on one machine. a single wheel has no freedom of motion in and of itself. rather, ... ...lows the motion of the rest of the wheels in a certain direction, f or the machine To do its task. and if one of the wheels is broken, it isn’t evalu... ... itself, But rather in relation to its function and service of the entire machine. 32 The Wise Heart The body Knows An allegory by Baal HaSulam in “...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...does he want to go, I wander? My brain is working overtime. My skull-domiciled well-oiled machine, whose parts are in metallic shine, impeccable, u... ...iled machine, whose parts are in metallic shine, impeccable, unerring, impervious to pain. Machines don't ache this brother, sprawled on the couch,... ...ght but way obese. His wild stubble and wire glasses accentuate his burliness, the towering machinery, the vaulted chamber. "The Cyclops's Cave", I ... ... what could go wrong with such a name? Partly to find out, I left my voice in her answering machine. Her message served only to enhance my interest....

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...ars.” “I saw the file on Frankenberg’s computer. I just couldn’t open it.” The machine under Dan’s massive work area coughed and started and the... ...spent the last ten minutes grappling valiantly with an obstreperous coffee vending machine. She finally gave up and we settled for Coke. “When Hi... ...erisively: “You can do anything with a computer. That’s why it’s called a universal machine.” He paused and turned to the flat display, his back t... ...le Libby went through her traditional and valiant battle with the coffee vending machine and, predictably, settled on three cokes. “Who says I ... ...me. Well, Bauer’s voice to be precise. It emanated from the antiquated answering machine donated by my mother as a means of remotely micromanagin...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

... It’s my turn. I place the groceries on the counter, dig into my pocket and produce the K100 note. Instead of punching on her machine, the till la... ...astic manners? They are sickening. “Yes sir. This man has been robbed,” says the teller. “Did you punch the amount into the machine?” The manage...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...s were testing their musketry and sharpening their bayonets and knives. Home-made bombs, infernal machines, huge stones and blocks of wood to impel ...

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