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"They were being crushed so bad they should have been kooks, but somehow they were holding it together by just like... loving each other?"
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A "little" death
“Okay, so do you want to tell me why you’re really here? It’s obviously not to help us with our crumbing reality and the maelstrom of demon hands trying…
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Daniel Babin
Hard shit
Though Carbon’s face was serene, his body was beginning to shred itself. Hydrogen squinted his eyes in discernment, pursed his lips, and subconsciously…
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A spasm of the nervous system
If protons were the soul, your essence and identity, electrons are the way you interface with the world – your body, your perception, your personality…
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Phonemes unfolding over epochs
The light glinted off dark skin, not of graphite, not of diamond, but metal – atoms of carbon crushed so profoundly that the very identity of the…
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Boys, heel
"What if we run a bunch of 1a supernovas to max out the Iron peak elements for the next nucleation cycle? That way when intelligence gasps it's way on…
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An asshole separate from its mouth
It seemed like no sooner did life develop an asshole separate from its mouth than it found the hidden wells of black power seeping from the hills and…
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Something that's going to change the world
"The more times you watch yourself destroy something the easier it gets to notice yourself doing it again and try something different.”
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Long time no see you old bag of bones
Oxygen held Sulfur by the throat, suspending him in the air before a setting, faint white sun. To Sulfur, the air smelled terrible, biting, corrosive…
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Stray proteins folded in a lightning bolt
Then, with fury, desperation, and chisels of bronze she reached back to the depths of the machine searching for its pain, pleasure, future and past…
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Elements
Elements
A new mythology for the Earth and cosmos. Retelling history from the perspective of the elements of the periodic table personified as gods.
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