Liminal
I shift from one scene to the next until a beam of light paints the wall, signaling unfinished business. I rise, stiff and uncertain, remembering when waking life was an extension of the dream.
Eric Stephenson
The Spectral Order, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
1 As the Vicious Pixies began their last song of the night, Abby prowled from one edge of the stage to the other, lost in the opening notes of an unhinged variant of “A Tisket A Tasket.” The keyboardist played a sparkly sequence of notes on a xylophone while a backup singer ran her fingers
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Drop Zone
The 2/75th Ranger Battalion was running a low-level night jump in 36-knot winds, Larry Swenson’s last. Once the mission was done, he would leave the Army and take a long road trip, settling into whichever town along the way felt right. Maybe he would go back to school. Maybe he wouldn’t. He didn’t know for sure,
Strange New World
They sat together in a corner booth of the most elegant hotel bar in town, just a few blocks from where he worked. He ran his index finger across the top of her hand and said, “I’m game for a nightcap in your room, but I can’t stay too late. I have a presentation tomorrow,
The Identity of Upset
A few years ago, a friend stopped by my office with some surprising news. She had been a staunch New England Patriots fan for as long as I could remember. In fact, we usually talked football regardless of the initial context of our conversations. She always spoke admiringly of Tom Brady. Now, standing at the
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Artificial Intelligence Has Arrived
You can read and interpret these words because of electrical brain activity triggered by your eyes. You’re responding to sensory input in order to create meaning from this interaction with my words. I mention this because IBM and DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) have created neuromorphic silicon chips, or silicon neurons, that do something similar
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