“This,” proclaimed Dave, “is the great flying pickle jar!”
“And my friends are inside of it?” I asked suspiciously.
“I think so,” said Dave.
“Well, okay then, let’s go inside- Wait a minute- did you say ‘the great flying pickle jar’?”
“Yes indeed,” gushed Dave. “I came up with it myself.”
“Oooookay,” I responded [...]
“Dave?”
“Yes.”
“Why Dave?” I asked confused.
“Well, because…I’m named Dave.”
“So, how did you get here, Dave?”
“I walked here.”
“Walked to this planet?”
“No, walked to this cave. I got to this planet by means of an escape pod.”
“So did we.”
“Anyway, did you see a group of a white lion, a four armed weasel and [...]
We clambered back down the tooth and out of the zoo and followed the deafening bellow. As we were running into the back area of the cave, where the bellow had come from, I heard Weasel murmuring something like, “’bout time I came back to this part of the cave.” [...]
Personas is a visualization project from MIT that converts digital footprints into a category breakdown that describes an individual. The mission of the web project, however, is not to provide some definitive interpretation of one’s data. Its creators hope to raise awareness about the capricious nature of data mining. [...]
“Are you a weasel?” I asked inquisitively.
“No,” again with a thick Irish accent.
“Then if you’re not a weasel, but your name is Weasel, what are you?”
“A waysel.”
“A weasel?”
“No, a waysel.”
“A waysel?”
“Aye.”
“So, you’re a waysel named Weasel?”
“Aye.”
“You’re an Irish waysel named Weasel?”
“Aye.”
“Then if you’re from Ireland, how did you get here?”
“Where’s [...]
When we arrived in the home of the little green creature, we noticed one major difference from houses on Earth: the furniture was built into the floors and walls and couldn’t be moved.
“My name is Plittereeg. Welcome to my home,” said the little green creature. Plittereeg led us to [...]
As we trudged along the desolate planet surface, we didn’t see any signs of life. We walked along the barren rocky desert for hours on end before we found a cave where we slept for the night.
When I woke up, very strangely, to something patting my head. When I [...]
When I woke up the Alabaster Lion was already wide awake and fiddling with the controls.
“Good morning,” he murmured. I checked my watch. It was 9:30 am. “We’re about to land,” said the lion.
“You don’t seem all that excited about it.”
“That’s because we’re not landing where I expected. I [...]
We kept climbing up the ladder until we made it out. Lion waited five minutes for voices then signaled that the coast was clear. We walked outside the ring of gears and I took off my goggles.
I followed the lion through dozens of narrow passageways and secret hatches until we [...]
That was what the ductopi had said. Why hadn’t I remembered that? I might have been able to escape if I had remembered that. I slowly backed up against the wall trying not to make any sudden movements. In vain, I came up with the idea that I might be [...]
The next couple of hours after the Military Exus Leader had left, I explored the room I had been left in. On the far end of the room where the domed window ended there was a control board, a pilot’s seat and a joystick. On the other end of the [...]
“What’s a Military Exus Leader?” I asked.
“The equivalent of a ‘president’ on your planet,” his voice sunk lower when he said “president”. “In any case, I lead my soldiers into battle.”
“What the @$% are you?” I shouted.
“Calm down,” said one of the ductopi lined up on the left wall. One [...]
Once I could look around the room clearly, the first thing I saw was a huge metal grate which I assumed at that point was an air conditioning vent and was the cause of all the cold air. The second thing I saw was a sci-fi style sliding door, like [...]
Ducks.
Yes, ducks. I don’t mean “duck,” like, “duck down,” I mean ducks like the waterfowl. This story started with ducks.
It all happened a couple of months ago at the park pond. My name is Drake. Ironic, yes? (for the uninformed, Drake is a male duck).
Anyway, it was around the time [...]
