Sunday, August 15, 2010

Paddle Boarding and Sailing Uphill in Deep Blue



Aloha writers,
     Deep blue sailing and uphill paddle boarding off
the coast inspires today's sudden beach SciFi.
Enjoy and play on!

Biopolitia 



     His dream comes back. It rolls Cooper over in a slow, dark moment of frozen silence. Light enters, as if a cold metal door cracking, then opens. The laboratory is in lighted view, with high windows that look down upon a bright commons, a courtyard, cherry blossom trees, students. A famous university emerges, as if on a giant freight elevator, and moves slow to the horizon. He looks down for the the pink flowers again and stares at what only remains: a tangled jungle, on a tropical island, peppered with cement bunkers, half buried in the underbrush, standing guard over a white coastline, lime green ocean waters lap the shore.
     "Darwinianism," he thinks.
     "Democracy," a voice deep in the jungle answers.
     He inhales a dirty breath of air. He is exhausted from moving around so much in what feels like thick space. He stays up until moonrise, taking care of the animals. he touches a bible--is it so bad for the humans, them being so sick and all? He isn't ready to wake up yet; he has fears of realizing this isn't a dream. He tells himself he must get more sleep. he'll be fresh for in the morning, to hear again from old professors, how their beliefs and insights sustain the world, how survival instincts, even the strong ones, weaken. How extinction just happens. He wakes up.

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