One Sunday, years ago, I was reading "The New York Times Book Review" and was struck by the quality of the writing. I started to copy any sentence that caught my eye, and then I formed them into poems. Two of them have survived because I incorporated them into a short play. I entered "The [...]
Batchers – Doctors
President Donald Trump XVI meets KaK January 2117 Miriam Hopkins is angry. Immortality is taking far too long and the Batchers are one hundred percent to blame. She is 167 years old and is still susceptible to illness and accidents. She's a doctor. Actually, she has three doctorates and medicine is one of them. She [...]
Batchers – Outsiders
July 4, 2117 President Donald J. Trump XVI loves to be the center of attention and today he is hosting the biggest and grandest of all annual celebrations. It is the culmination of the year's artistic activity and heralds exciting new ideas, fashions and trends. Because nobody remembers its origin, not even the National Historian [...]
Batchers – Batchers
January 2117 Batchers love to bounce and they love to poop. There are fifty of them and they get along like siblings. Maybe they fight sometimes but it is never serious. They live together in a huge dormitory and they dress alike in silky sports kits.. In the beginning, the doctors taught them to read [...]
18 Dinners
Day 1. May 16 2022 I didn't have luggage tags. Princess had sent some sort of digital pendant which was used as a door key and credit card on the ship. I figured they would just scan it and print tags but they didn't.I knew that my cabin number was 723 but the luggage guy [...]
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