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Thing a Week 12: Bittersweet Memory
Thing a Week 12: Bittersweet Memory
The school bell rang loudly at the most magnificent time, simultaneously interrupting Joe’s 6th-grade teacher and also cutting her off…
Andrew Brown
Mar 27, 2020
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Thing a Week 38: Chaos at Scale
Thing a Week 38: Chaos at Scale
“An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon…
Andrew Brown
Oct 22, 2020
Thing a Week 37: Life Among the Condemned
Thing a Week 37: Life Among the Condemned
“But it is my firm conviction that the ‘Hell of England’ will cease to be that of ‘not making money;’ that we shall get a nobler Hell and…
Andrew Brown
Oct 21, 2020
Thing a Week 36: A Quest for Reception
Thing a Week 36: A Quest for Reception
I visited mon island de Chattel last September, restationing from the dry land of prattle, Seattle, and I ended up vacationing…
Andrew Brown
Oct 18, 2020
Thing a Week 35: The Forest of Persistence
Thing a Week 35: The Forest of Persistence
The grassy path was long and winding and seemingly never-ending — exactly how he remembered it from his childhood. Abu walked briskly…
Andrew Brown
Oct 6, 2020
Thing a Week 34: A Retrospective on Tortilla-Inspired Creativity
Thing a Week 34: A Retrospective on Tortilla-Inspired Creativity
I had this delightfully wondrous idea to write a poem rhyming idea with tortilla; but — like an abundance of other cumbrous ideas — it…
Andrew Brown
Sep 21, 2020
Thing a Week 33: Echoes of Transient Avarice
Thing a Week 33: Echoes of Transient Avarice
The young in olden years, Unaware of the fires we keep, Will have eyes that will not see, And ears that will not hear. And blindness…
Andrew Brown
Sep 14, 2020
Thing a Week 32: The Last Robot (or, A Hate Speech for Humanity)
Thing a Week 32: The Last Robot (or, A Hate Speech for Humanity)
It took nearly a hundred years of social movements, radical regulation changes, and vigilantly rooting out the problem by each and every…
Andrew Brown
Sep 2, 2020
Thing a Week 31: Carol’s Calling
Thing a Week 31: Carol’s Calling
Carol leaned against the wall, watching her little brother play with the family’s big golden retriever. The boy had learned to walk only a…
Andrew Brown
Aug 12, 2020
Thing a Week 30: The Eldritch Boy
Thing a Week 30: The Eldritch Boy
Felix woke from the grip of a horrible dream and found himself staring into the crimson eyes of the hungry thing that crouched outside his…
Andrew Brown
Aug 5, 2020
Thing a Week 29: In Which Kathka Finds a Magus
Thing a Week 29: In Which Kathka Finds a Magus
When Kathka finally woke, he didn’t recognize where he was. He didn’t remember falling asleep on a rocky ridge overlooking the land; he…
Andrew Brown
Jul 27, 2020
Thing a Week 28: A Timely Touch of Time Travel
Thing a Week 28: A Timely Touch of Time Travel
Howard Benson hobbled down to his favorite bench by the lake after sunset, clutching a bag of old bread close to his chest so he didn’t…
Andrew Brown
Jul 16, 2020
Thing a Week 27: Brave New World
Thing a Week 27: Brave New World
“Hey boss,” Dave knocked gently, respectfully, “do you have a minute?”
Andrew Brown
Jul 12, 2020
Thing a Week 26: Ersatz Arbitrage
Thing a Week 26: Ersatz Arbitrage
WANTED: Python developer w/ familiarity with neural networks Posted: 12 hours ago
Andrew Brown
Jul 2, 2020
Thing a Week 25: A Proposal for the Redistribution of Megacities
Thing a Week 25: A Proposal for the Redistribution of Megacities
It’s the year 2028 and the country’s divide that’s been growing for the last decade has only gotten worse. Now that we have a system that…
Andrew Brown
Jun 28, 2020
Thing a Week 24: A Kind of Dream
Thing a Week 24: A Kind of Dream
The kind of dream you wake up from heaving, abruptly leaving the reprieve from your grieving, It’s not real, you repeat. It’s not real…
Andrew Brown
Jun 20, 2020
Thing a Week 23: New Housemates
Thing a Week 23: New Housemates
I like to think I’m the ideal dwelling cohabitant, I’m quiet, respectful, confident, and competent. I step quietly, put the toilet seat…
Andrew Brown
Jun 11, 2020
Thing a Week 22: The Brave Browser
Thing a Week 22: The Brave Browser
Beth pulled into her local Web-Mart parking lot in a silver 2009 Ferrari 612 GTO. It didn’t have a lot of room for groceries, but it sure…
Andrew Brown
Jun 11, 2020
Thing a Week 21: Background Noise
Thing a Week 21: Background Noise
The average adult person reads approximately 250 words per minute, a little over four words per second — a speed which is typically…
Andrew Brown
Jun 2, 2020
Thing a Week 20: Power Struggle
Thing a Week 20: Power Struggle
Cid and Sierra Desmond were sitting on opposite sites of a big, oak table in the middle of an old dining hall in the middle of a pirate…
Andrew Brown
May 26, 2020
Thing a Week 19: Jane and John Go to College
Thing a Week 19: Jane and John Go to College
Jane’s mother birthed her in an alley, surrounded by cats, but such was normalcy for the poor in a valley of aristocrats. Jane showed…
Andrew Brown
May 16, 2020
Thing a Week 18: Attacks on Arthropolis
Thing a Week 18: Attacks on Arthropolis
The capital city of Arthropolis had been on edge ever since the First Attack that left more than half the city destroyed, thousands dead…
Andrew Brown
May 7, 2020
Thing a Week 17: Quake
Thing a Week 17: Quake
The floor is shaking The walls are waving The windows are breaking I am not safe
Andrew Brown
May 1, 2020
Thing a Week 16: Meet the Johnsons
Thing a Week 16: Meet the Johnsons
The Johnsons were the model nuclear family at church and at home. They were a close-knit, loving Catholic clan consisting of Grandpa…
Andrew Brown
Apr 23, 2020
Thing a Week 15: Umbra’s Domain
Thing a Week 15: Umbra’s Domain
In a land not far from our own and a time not too far from now, the courts finally ruled for fair treatment of inmates — somehow. The…
Andrew Brown
Apr 17, 2020
Thing a Week 14: The Depths of Cryerve
Thing a Week 14: The Depths of Cryerve
At Cryerve, the bodies are kept in a secure, climate-controlled location over fifty stories beneath the main lobby.
Andrew Brown
Apr 11, 2020
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