Author Archives: Michael Hissom

Polarization of American politics

Polarization of American Politics Ah politics… fun fun fun ‘til Daddy takes the T-Bird away, the polarization of America is getting out of hand. Everyone can buy a gun? State religion? No taxes? Unbridled Capitalism? Socialism? Libertarianism? Communism? Extremism! Oh … Continue reading

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Camping 2120

Camping 2120 The ATV wagon crawled along the open ground, the large balloon tires made the ride soft and the headlights lit up the ground ahead to almost daylight levels in front of the first wagon in the line of … Continue reading

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First contact?

New story… First contact… Sarah watched the video screen as the rover Odin crawled across the surface of the planet Asgard. It was easy to think the video was in real time, but the reality was that the newly discovered … Continue reading

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Ride Like the wind!

Ride like the wind! This song reminds me of taking a long trip on a big V4 motorcycle, V-Max, it stands up on it’s center stand chrome sparkling in the street lights, it has a physical presence almost deadly, it … Continue reading

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Pamela’s dream

New story… Pamela was swept away by the powerful alien. Pamela had been driving for hours, the mountain roads were twisting and deserted this time of night or early morning. The sky was dark, no moon tonight but occasionally, she … Continue reading

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War

Battle fatigue! It had been a long war, Lt Cmdr, Givens had started out 5 years ago as a seeker pilot, and lowest of the low, now he was tank commander… Still a shitty job, they had been playing cat … Continue reading

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Party

The Party The Party was fairly regular at first, my own software projected my green Hulk image reasonably well into the artificial universe created by the newbie who was giving this little hoe down. I must be one of the … Continue reading

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Politics

My own political allegiance has always been “complicated” I’m registered as a Democrat but loyalty to one party has always seemed disingenuous at the very best. How anyone can claim to follow anything without some kind of filter has always … Continue reading

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Hurricane Florence!

Hurricane Florence: Destruction-Devastation, Fear-Terror, Frustration-Boredom, and Being Human… For us Florence began to get our attention Thursday afternoon around two o’clock, the wind had picked up and was waving trees around and rain was beginning to be significant, the splatter … Continue reading

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Meat eaters!

I have never liked being exposed like this, even statistically it’s not a clever idea to be inside an object exposed to space. This is my third time being ejected from a sky park, the next one that has agreed … Continue reading

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