Is there anybody out there?
May 19, 2023Irish SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) HQ Today 9:07 Kate clocks-in a bit late. Her supervisor will notice. As if those few minutes make any difference. If there is an intelligent life out there, obviously they wouldn’t transmit the message before coffee. Control room is empty. She clears some papers from the desk, stares motionless at her inbox, then turns in the chair five times clockwise and back, anticlockwise, then she receives a text from her mother: ‘Mike was here. You should take him back <love heart> I don’t want to die without a grandchild. <sad face, very sad face>’…
Complimenting Irish
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Make love, not war
Sex! If that’s not an attention grabber, I don’t know what it. I believe that we don’t have enough of it in our lives. You’d think I don’t need to do much convincing, yet there is still a lot of…
Writers in a group
I imagined the a writers’ group would consist of big egos, introverted geniuses, eccentric apparel, wild hairstyles, strong alcohol, rims of crumpled paper and heated arguments till early hours in the morning. Instead we meet at a reasonable 7 pm…
The perfect sound
‘How does it sound?’ ‘I don’t know, Trish.’ ‘I’m telling you, the plan is perfect. They will never suspect it.’ Tim wasn’t convinced. She always had crazy ideas and at least once a month came up with a scheme to…
Grandpa’s Scrabbled Eggs with Butter and Petrarca
My grandpa Zygmunt had never dropped us. He was always there to catch us when we jumped of a rock into his arms. The rocks were first just a foot high, then we climbed higher and higher and he was…
