Acts of God

Personal automobiles other than boats and bicycles were outlawed, because why was personally travelling important? Those who fancied private displacement could walk.

Everything had been vaporized. Mounds of paper, molecules of friend, gone.

A dead person is indeed missing, but they are dead first.

A monolithic government emerged, one identity with nothing on Earth to fight, something that had been scratched on the last page of every conspiracy theory – A One-World Government – although it was hardly as bad as the conspiracies had imagined. The only real issue was what to call it. World Government, Earth Government, United Government all sort

Painful memories have strong legs from walking repeatedly into the spotlight.

I was having some trouble with my data plan because I didn’t want to pay for it.

Any treatment of machines that could demonstrably think and feel was to be allowed so long as it was also treatment that humans could do to each other. Any other way of treatment of artificial sentience was to be considered condescending and paternalistic. If we were to treat these machines as humans, then they must be subject to the whole gamut of

Karaoke disasters take place regularly around the world, mostly involving the public performance of something that should have remained private.