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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

Sun's faint glow signals from the top of the jungle. Of course it's not a distress call, but it could be. No one, certainly no human on the Continent, wakes with such a crystallized start as Suzi. Taking naps isn't part of her program. She opens the monitor and enters the data stream She feels nothing is different; the flickering through the monitor is still there, a ringing so weak and so strange, so off normal her audio didn't hear those vibrations. She knew long ago she had other perceptions more simple than sound--it's got to be that Cooper sensation--through which a conjuring archaic feeling of duty and servitude, infatuation, a definite element of adventure, and an unending expectation of slavery, as if whenever he calls he could be, finally in need of her survival skills, to add to the danger the future presents, even in its magical way.

"Suzie!" She recognized Cooper's voice.

"Dr. Cooper?" she heard herself say.

"Suzie, I'm coming back."

Suzie could only faintly hear Cooper's voice. "Dr. Cooper, what's wrong?"

He was beyond intrigue at the irony of this query from the most perfectly designed computer."Will you be there?" Cooper asked.

"Where would I go? Swimming?"

"Very funny. I'll need to see you when I get back."

Suzie, by now flickering blue more than usual, said nothing.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Urban Coastal Flash Fiction

Coastal Flash Fiction

Before leaving for the coast, he waits for a moment by the CompleX, held still by the memory of the Tigress, looking at her images as if they were bubbles with buoyancy he wished he had;inert gases that just floats him away. The work here, Cooper thinks, is the real work; it will gain back what was lost over evolutionary time, the "fishing upstream" experimentation laboratories(F.U.E.L.) of the gene therapies that endured for decades after the formula liabilities offer pharmaceuticals(F.L.O.P.), early drug companies investing for political favors. Searches for achievement in mammal extinction therapy haphazard(M.E.T.H.) prevention, the first experiments to bring the regenerative powers of newts to the mammals to generate cells that support the structure and beating of warm blood in heart tissue.

He unhooks his satellite feed and goes down the trail where his receiver picks up Xradio spectrum. Cooper is not receiving particularly clear, but won't give up trying to do anything that changes all that. Still no call. He holds on to his hope with feelings that resemble numbness. He needs to force himself to expect the best now; at this point nothing else will do.For once in his life, he realizes what he needs.

Urban Coastal

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Urban Coastal Walkway

aloha coast writers,
Coastal urban wakway at sunset with surfer carrying
his surfboard inspires tody. Enjoy play on!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Coastal WatersSciFi Flash Fiction

Aloha writers of the Coast,

CoastalSciFi from "The Outpost" Enjoy play on!

The Arrival

He notices she hasn't changed much. Except she looks more like a woman. Here was a woman, head of a large division at Systems Intac. Cooper wants to shake her hand, but he can't resist his feelings.They had been fond of each other for too long back in school.And there were too many details they knew about each other. Before he could decide, she gave him a hug.

"You look wonderful," Cooper says with a smile.

"And you haven't changed a bit, Dr. Cooper."

"Well, you know genetics. Holds the secrets of life.."

Elizabeth's bags were still in the boat. Everything she had brought for a two to three day stay at Outpost. "I've brought you a gift from Paris. Some red wine. I hope it's okay in the boat"

"No burglars here," Cooper smiled.

"I mean the sun, silly."

The Outpost Station is open air. The white sand against the lime-green ocean could have put this place on the cover of any travel magnetizine. She smiles at Cooper as she walks with him in the morning sun.

"How long have you been on the island?" she asks.

"I'm still in my first year."

"This is an absolute spectacular view," she said, looking directly into his eyes.

"I like it."

Cooper opens the door to the bunker, the side overlooking the valley. Carter is already in the lab admiring the new data. "I hope our success here hasn't gone unnoticed by the man upstairs."

"God?"

"No, our boss, the network" said Carter.

Cooper keeps walking straight. He often watches the changes in weather patterns in the rain forest from here. "The rains come and goe at the drop of a hat out there," he thought. He could see the whole valley from here. Sometimes he would just sit there and watch the rain fall in the jungle. Even with all his experience, Cooper had never really enjoyed the view from the top.