UNIVERSE

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MICROFICTION

Fiction: The mirror didn’t lie. The geneticist
had always been an ass, but he’d love to know
which gene produced the long ears.

UNIVERSE

Is the universe out there? It certainly seems to be – after all, we feel
its effects all the time; and science certainly seems to be learning lots
about it. But is this really the case? Well, most of the mass of the
universe is currently classed as dark energy or dark matter – mainly
because we haven’t the slightest idea of how it works without
inventing something yet to be found. It’s the same with Big Bang. It all
began with the expansion of a singularity. Yet this singularity is nothing
more than a mathematical point of infinity. In reality, our understanding
of the universe has moved on very little since the days of gods holding
it in place. Indeed, the history of our knowledge of the universe seems
to go hand in hand with our changing view of our culture and society.
So maybe the true reality of the universe exists only in our collective
minds.

CANDY

Fiction: When the health evangelist realised
society had a weight problem he decided
Candy was to blame. But the authorities
decided changing it to Dontdy was a
little extreme.

Eye On the World
Essays on everything from science
to religion, politics to crime

EURO NEWS: Eurovision Song
Contest. The team that made Kylie
come last. They’ll come in top 5? They
should be so lucky.

BRIT NEWS: Lib Dem govt minister David Laws quits
over £40,000 payment to partner in expenses scandal. At
least it’s not Tory sleaze.

BRIT NEWS: Survey says average Brit family spend 49 mins together
per week. Such are the pressures of modern life to keep us apart.

WORLD NEWS: Are US govt talking to Hamas secretly, as their leader
claims? Possibly. At some level everyone talks to everyone.

BRIT NEWS: Govt could face European court if it doesn’t give
prisoners the vote. Rubbish! In committing crime they
forego that right.

BRIT NEWS: Cameron wants more openness in govt.
Of course he’d say that, but openness always
leans towards the good news than bad.

BRIT NEWS: Some 180 civil servants earn
more than the Prime Minister. Another
example of ridiculous overspend
of ‘prudent’ Brown.

READ WITH MUMMY

The Magazine Post with a gentle hint of horror

One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – Friday Flash 55
Three Word Wednesday – Thursday Poets’ Rally
Writer’s Island

OUBLIETTE

Pushed down the hatch into the pit,
Never get out, no matter how fit,
As time drags on it’s a forgotten place,
What happens is surely a terrible disgrace …
So many years since I imprisoned him there,
I daren’t go and look – his eye sockets will stare,
Reminding me of a terror let free,
Skeletons of mind too fearful to see

FLASH 55 – THE SCHOOL

Fiction: It was certainly an unusual boarding school. The teachers were
very good and cost nothing at all. Of course, the headmaster was
pleased with his recruiting methods. He often trawled ‘up there’ during
his séances. After all, there were plenty just floating about, doing
nothing. And the kiddies always stayed in bed on a night.

UNFORGETTABLE

Unforgettable – that’s her song,
She obviously thought we belonged,
Followed me everywhere I went,
Eventually my anger I had to vent,
I lie awake, now, most of the time,
Trying to hear that damn clock chime,
How she died – such a fright,
Now she sings that song all night

THE NOBLE UNDEAD

Fiction: Since he was last staked the noble undead one had declined in
people’s imagination. A new world was coming. Science was advancing,
and how could superstition survive this onslaught of reason? And
without superstition he could not take bodily form again, his memory
condemned to be hidden from culture. For he lived on fear, and if
people no longer knew how to fear … ? He thought long and hard about
this as he roamed through the ether. One day he found himself in a
book filled study, and it occurred to him that imagination now existed
in words; and if imagination was there, why not fear? He looked at the
man sat at the desk and made his decision. He entered through his ear
and soon found a comfy place within his mind to think. And as the man
called Stoker began to write, the undead one knew he would rise once
more.

MESS

A scene of carnage, such a mess,
I look down feeling such distress,
Serial killers, ghosts and ghouls performed,
This charnel house is not the norm,
It’s so hard not to step on all the gore,
I’ve dropped my horror DVDs on the floor

BRIT NEWS: Union says British
Airways face a summer of disruption.
With strikes and ash, being hit hard. BA &
BP – are they on way out?

BRIT NEWS: Is UK doing enough to protect major sites
during Olympics? Most likely not; which is the problem. You
can’t have 100% security.

CRIME NEWS: After 12 shot dead by Cumbrian spree killer there’ll
no doubt be a kneejerk reaction to gun laws again. Always leads to
bad law.

GREEN NEWS: UN report says we should eat less meat/dairy products
to ease climate change. Abstinance never good message. It’s ignored.

HEALTH NEWS: Council of Europe says some experts who urged
stockpiling of swine flu vaccine been paid by Big Pharma.
Why am I not surprised?

BRIT NEWS: MP urges local councils to publish spending
over £500. Very good idea. So much wastage
here there’d be riots in the streets.

© Anthony North, June 2010

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