Fiction
Short fiction and essays on consciousness, physics and meaning.
2025
2015
- 22 December 2015 Back to Earth I was painting deep blue thick paint, a crest of yellow highlighting two dark lined shapes that kink in the middle, pin-pricked with red markers. Apart from its abstract beauty, there was nothing…
- 9 December 2015 a tree as the air moves A gloaming cool descended over the lake, and the trees reflected purple in the still dark water. A boy and his father sat.
- 9 December 2015 from where all things end There was a time when questions were unanswered, even when questions didn't arise. This time is called the Unrepresented; a time before there were beings to represent anything at all. Out of here…
- 9 December 2015 Love is love's virus Susan slip-sliced her mind through the interface; the inviting, colourful and intricate view before her at her minder tips. She flisped past the countless mindless minds, and her love discovered her…
- 9 December 2015 magical woman 'I'll grant you two wishes' said the magical woman.
- 9 December 2015 Once Upon a Universe The scientists had been working hard. It had been a problem for as long as man has been able to think. How is it that physical stuff can create the qualia of experience? In 2145 the scientists…
- 9 December 2015 Raoul Duke Duke was nonchalant. Ben sat back in the hard red leather cushion of a high sofa. The bar was familiar, an ash tray on a round table, and Duke sat lazily back, and took a sip of his cigarette.