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... was no one there.’ ‘Oh.’ Theo’s spirits drooped. ‘But I got through to a machine that said, “Welcome to the Sto- ryteller’s emergency answering serv... ...air seemed static with fear and, for a long, awful moment, he thought the machine was about to land on the roof of the house. He felt like he was go... .... ‘What is plastic? It is oil, the blood of the desert sucked up by giant machines. Then it is burnt and the fumes poison the sky and turn our lungs... ...buys fresh ones each day. They’re a natural barrier between a man and his machine, a reminder to remain independent of technology.’ ‘Let the poor da...

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...tretched upon the bed. My God, she thought, it’s me, and what’s with all the machines and tubes? 16 The Emerald Dagger She floated closer. Life suppo... ...d up the chart hanging at the foot of the bed, checked the read- ings on the machines and hung the chart back in its place. Look at her, Kelsey though... ...the doctor said. “Would she want to go on this way? No brain activity, and a machine breathing for her?” “I know you’re right,” Duncan cried. “But to ...

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...morning until night building more factories to make more chocolate. Giant machines thundered and rolled across the once quiet countryside, and smoke... ...heering and noise, the workers opened the factories and turned on the new machines. All of a sudden, the cheering stopped. The workers realized that...

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...blew askance from the automated brushes of industrialized street cleaning machines. Such filth needed to be buffeted aside to make the city clean. Tr... ...dry day and staff members would soon be giving them tokens for the washing machines which, based on rules predicated on what was convenient to the or...

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...he knots in his back. To the multitudes of wheels and gears whirring in the machinery of love. To the only cart he had left. 90 Elissa Malcohn Dev... ... dictated. Here the smithy transformed the guns into better, more powerful machines. Aim did not matter so much as finishing what one started. With... ...ng its blessing. The compact revolvers she spied from her hiding place were machines rather than sacraments. The chills they sent through her overro...

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...y dashed back out to the living room, saw Jordan pointing to the answering machine's flashing red light. "He probably left you a message ... Tyler, I ... ...r times before someone picked up. Tyler had almost hung up, anticipating a machine and unwilling to talk to something that wasn't a living, breathing ...

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...1. A New and Present Life 2. The Sacred Marriage 3. The Retrieval of Meaning 4. The Ghost in the Machine 5. The Disease of Translation 6. Another Voice...

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...ss from Canada) Doctor Gouramiyude Asupathri (Dr. Gourami’s Hospital) Pazhayoru Bheeshanikkari (An Old Female Blackmailer) Alakkuyanthram (Washing Machine) Ammu Paranja Katha (The Story Told by Ammu) Puzhakkakkare Kochuswapnangal (Teeny Weeny Dreams Across The River) Dushtakathapathrangalulla Kathakal (Stories with Evil Characters) Kalikkalam (The Play Season) Oru ...

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...was thought, fact. Fabricated stories of escape, death and injury fed the machine of terror. Clansmen regularly gathered at night on common ground, c... ...ectedly, Alex stepped away from the wall and opened fire on the disorderly machines, coming towards them. Her team followed suit. Their pellets rippe... ...ange modes. This enabled her to confront the situation as a Techtronic, a machine void of emotion and stimulation. Having saved his life, she had tak... ...d been hopeful of making Alex his partner. Having expressed his love to a machine, he now felt sick to the stomach, especially as he'd so badly wante... ...d's eyes, suspecting he was not the first to have fallen in love with the machine. Her creators had to have known that her looks 81 and personality ... ...g this, David thought them pathetic in their attitudes towards a lifeless machine. It ground on his nerves that they hadn't just picked the thing up... ...ht amusing and ducked down to hook up all the clear plastic tubes to the machines. Leaning forward, Gabriel watched the doctor work for a moment. S... ...t go away, a reminder of what he loved and lost. They could refer to this machine as Alex all they liked, but he couldn't bring himself to associate... ...e boy's hurting aye. He said he wanted you to see 91 what he did, a cold machine. Honest Alex, he's no pervert or rapist." Brendan shifted his sigh...

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...money to fund the health needs of those retirees. Jobs became more scarce as machines did the work of the unskilled and some of the skilled workers. ... ... would eagerly await the planetarium show. The giant black insect-like machine, the Zeiss planetarium, was perched in the middle of the 75 foot... ...s it out for a future home for our excess population. Maybe some day a time machine or an astral travel mechanism can be invented that would make em... ... service the firms founded on foreign money—the cleaning services, the copy machine maintenance companies, the various suppliers—fear not, much of ... ... can build vertical farms that use hydroponics. Today’s farms require large machines powered by oil. They require great amounts of water, which woul... ...er economically useful because there are fewer small farms and the labor is machine-generated, not human-generated. “I’ve thought about this...

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...urself the price of an STD call.” I just love making out I’m an answering machine; some of my friends can’t tell the difference. I suddenly hear a f... ...eted within by a mixture of laughter and hysteria. Oh my god! The condom machine is having convulsions, whilst several women have lined the walls o... ...on Spike.” Steven is again looking sheepish. “He’s a cat, in your washing machine. Spike’s, well, not exactly house trained.” 79 “Of the feral vari... ...oo and it’s gawking at me in the form of a mangy, ginger cat. The washing machine lid is open, the upper part of his body is protruding from the bow... ...ce and I’m not moving. His front leg is resting on the rim of the washing machine and the other on his hip. Funny, I use to put a doll in that posit... ... myself moving with him, as we look at the floor between the bath and the machine. “Well let me tell you; they make fun of me and it’s not nice. It’... ...ll do; he let me go. With freedom, I instantly slam the lid of the washing machine shut. The clothesbasket is plonked on top with all the surrounding... ...ng. Ali slammed the lid down and I place the washing basket on top of the machine, which contains my smelly overalls and socks. “Not a word Steven,”... ...for all I care. My man is sitting on the couch; I place the video into the machine and press rewind, as some slack bastard didn’t do the job. Switchi...

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... that show order we can see that they had a designing mind. Whether it be machines or buildings, there was a designer and a builder. Everything we s... ... clergy, by getting themselves established by law, and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civi... ... To hell with the people, government should go to the shrewdest political machine. What do the people know anyway?‖ --―Right. The Electoral Co... ...ended to AK 47s and other necessary arms by some state courts. And even a machine gun can fall under the protection offered by Supreme Court. (32), ... ...ion offered by Supreme Court. (32), if the defendant didn‘t know it was a machine gun! ―Generally the gun control cases decided by the Supreme... ...that, modern economies are tricky to manage. We need fewer farmers because machines do so much of the work. We need fewer production workers because ... ...pt functioning through nutrients in tubes and other functions provided by machines equal to a ghetto child in an underfunded school? Where should the... ...the need for its own ethnic citizens to till the 253 soil and man the machines. They disregard the fact that there are waiting workers in other ... ...eeds. Cheap labor, like slaves and Irishmen, are no longer needed because machines do the work. The needs now are for engineers, computer specialists...

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...d prospers fewer unskilled workers are needed. They become superfluous as machines and robots do their work and as the development of advanced techn... ...t us peel them by hand, then fly them back, than it is to have the shrimp machine peeled in Scotland by $11 an hour workers. 120 Scottish workers lo... ...what they can contribute to the overall society—they are not birth giving machines who make coffee. Patriarchal societies hurt themselves by not let...

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... under the Speedy Trial Statute.” The middle-aged woman’s fingers clicked over her machine. “Now some time yesterday, an esteemed colleague and of... ...ved every minute of it, too. Some eccentrics developed hobbies like tinkering with machines or keeping endless diaries. Her mama talked to inanimat... ...le to settle in for brandy and cigars, I’ve got to come back here and talk into that machine the secretaries’ use. My girl won’t come here until the... ...approved, or was just amazed, at what they’d done. The image of Olin at the copying machine madly flinging original documents on the glass and cover...

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... You may be an all powerful Vampire, but I’m an unstoppable Vampire killing machine.” I thrust all the appropriate body parts in his general direct... ...ave run screaming through the doors. At the other end of the field, a smoke machine flared to life spewing a blue and pink colored fog into the air... ...now how busy this time of year is.” I’ve heard of shotgun weddings, but a machine gun honeymoon? And I thought redneck weddings were weird. “So,... ... Who knew how long she’d been standing there before she popped me with that machine gun? Well, I wasn’t going to stand back and die on my honeymoon...

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...d for you. Focus on the vid-screen and react, yet do so with caution. The machine is intuitive and capable of learning, but dead is still dead if you...

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...e has been exchanged during the service, not to mention, sale of stock or machinery. The congregation has grown quite accustomed to seeing their pas... ... all his money at cards, now took out his frustration on the old pinball machine. Eventually, Morris had no choice than to throw the young man out ...

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..."Ready Fire Aim." Resources dwindle as aqua farming Region 5 Spaceport Terminus pushes maximum population density, and the balance between man and machine collapses in "Bloom." The fractured politics of the fractured 1920s Aether Age leaves a sheriff struggling to find the truth in "The More Things Change." Would Ace Rango rather be locked in battle with snarling ...

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...ink about things before answering and reckons on the phone people demand instant decisions and responses. We’ve a landline that goes to the answering machine so she can listen to callers and decide whether to respond.’ ‘Must be hard for her boss and staff.’ ‘Everyone emails her. When she’s home the internet’s always on and when an email arrives a little alarm sounds. It’...

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...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of their worth and fought back for their own freedom, destroying half of t...

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...enture to the stars. He heard stories during the age of technology of how man sent machines to record data as they learned about other planets in th... ...d through the papers. “And to think at one time humanity couldn’t function without machines.” “How wrong they were,” he said. “I don’t need a fl... ...ead focused on the pursuit of pleasuring himself and feeding his every want. These machines joined with man to create superior beings, yet it backfi... ...with man to create superior beings, yet it backfired—destroying most of humankind. Machines were quickly destroyed as well thus sending mankind back... ...o the wars that started the destruction of your people right before the age of the machines.” He shifted his weight at the mention of the machin... ...he wars of men. Technology advanced to the point of the creation where Man created machines to think for themselves and to work twice as hard as hum... ...wice as hard as humans. Soon, they lead humans in war against themselves. But, the machines knew from man’s history that there would be a backlash a... ... that there would be a backlash against them. Humans fear what is different. The machines managed to reanimate human corpses and meld with them to ...

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... Free Thought Bridges Forests All Their Names Testify Moonstruck Not Yet Excess Post-Modernity Simply Complex Noa Noa A Song Minds Of The Machines Cry Of Your Blind Hands Elegy For A Poet As Nothing Else Does To A Child Not Reason Tracery Index Of First Lines...

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...e hands of liberals. The metamorphosis that accompanied the takeover is the very reason every news organization today (save for FOX) are left-leaning machines with the Democrat Party their vehicle for helping them change the country. LIARS - The News Industry is this author’s attempt to redress that aberration in history, a task that has not been easy to say the least....

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...g baby, and for the house. She made drapes and bedspreads on an old sewing machine she got at a church sale. Together, they bought furniture from ‘con... ...hat networking was largely respon- sible for his success. He heard the fax machine ringing behind him. With a last, satisfied look at the throngs belo... ...lete-body bone scan, grateful that she didn’t need a driver this time. The machine whirred and coughed and grunted as it moved up and down and all aro... ...ay after Christmas Lacey had a brain scan under another whirring, clicking machine. I think brain cancer must 117 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE be the worst, t... ...a sip and stood up. “Shall we do the dishes?” “Sure, just drop them in the machine will you? I have to take Barney out. Rain or shine or snow, he has ... ... the street, and got a glimpse of armed troops in fatigue uniform leveling machine guns at a group of men near their bus. For a moment she felt reliev... ...For a moment she felt relieved. Then she saw that the men near the bus had machine guns too. She ducked back down and moved the phone a bit, trying to... ...e could stand when the door flew open and several men marched in. Some had machine guns. One man stepped forward as the oth- ers trained the guns on t... ...ur medical care? You might be warehoused somewhere, possibly in a bed with machines and tubes at- tached to your body, or strapped in a wheelchair and...

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... "Where the hell is she?" he asked out loud, feeling lost. Finally, the message machine answered, "Sorry I missed your .so Johnathan Cross call. L... ...Hawk could speak Brent asked him, as he looked around at a host guards carrying machine guns, "You expecting World War III?" "Just precautionary. C... ...s from Virginia. He was bought and paid for by the local district's polit­ ical machine. He wanted power, and they wanted influence. Be­ tween them, ... .... Hawk pushed the door open. He and Brent squeezed in. The sound of the washing machines hummed at the level of a moderate roar. "This way." Hawk wh... ...cleaning opera­ tion. At the far end of the room he saw a figure hunched over a machine that looked like a generator. As they approached, the man sp... ...s tied up at the moment. I'm Commander Johnson," he said as he whipped around a machine gun and pointed it at Kil­ lion. "Major, you and your men are... ...esident of the United States." A Navy Seal standing next to Johnson trained his machine gun on several soldiers approaching the helicopter. "Men, t... ...," Ryan yelled at the top of his voice, but was drowned out by the fusillade of machine gun fire that lit the for­ est a crimson red. Ryan kept shout...

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...s Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth, My Likeness I Dream'd in a Dream What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast-Anchor'd Eternal O Lo...

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...o. Just talk about it?" The words ground into Alex's stomach like a sausage machine. "Is he all right?" "I don't know. I'm waiting word from my t... ...cture. It showed the anger and fear of its citizens. It was the American news machines that portrayed the propaganda of a nation in mourning. Soule’...

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...rototypes for a new generation of Man. The body skeleton, made of modern metal clusters, that would never decay, was almost indestructible. His inner machine workings were covered in a flexible carbon hybrid. The carbon, formed with the mineral pansaleite under extreme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and...

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...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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...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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...the flat, feeling cold and used. Exactly four minutes later a motorbike roared up bearing a leather-clad, helmeted Martian who jumped off, locked his machine and panted over. ‘I’m not too late am I? She sounded pretty awesome.’ ‘No, you’re fine. Rather you than me, though.’ Upstairs, water was still splashing around in the bathroom. ‘Is that him?’ Frances yelled. ‘Yes...

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...dists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machin... ...have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank guard, copy machin...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...ing to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...