Suzi Shane, Rita Raquel, Kitty Kay Sweeney
three sisters of the Moon
all end up on the same planet
and, had to share the spacebase
Suzi, of course, found an alien boyfriend she called Spock.
Yes, Spock…
Why do you always call me that? Because of that TV show?
No, well, maybe, what do you want me to call you?
My name is ((&^&&**))UNHHG
Well, that’s why I call you Spock
Oh, well, we can’t all speak in frequency
No, what do you want for supper
How about that Pizza stuff
You do like that don’t ya
I love it, so gooey; and weird and its such a logical meal when you are busy and don’t have time to prepare space food
I know, just heat it in the microwave.
Where do you get it
Oh, well, it’s a place on earth in another timestep called a pizzeria
Suzi arose from languishing on the davenport to go heat up the leftover pizza and pulled out two beers from the fridge for her Vulcan lover.
He sat down and started charting on his dashboard and she watched the TV which was also just a projection.
Then she disappeared into the hologram to powder her nose and to talk to herself in the mirror where she saw her real self, intermittently
Oh, sweet death, why isn’t the future more – I dunno
Fascinating?
What are you talking about?
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I mean we have world peace, we are living like Star Trek
And I even have a hot Vulcan boyfriend, and look at me,
I’m stunning and gorgeous still after 800 years, but
But what
Well, when you don’t die,
Things get a little boring
So now you want to die?
No, but I would like to go back and forth
Across dimensions
Well, I know it is dangerous
Yes, it is.
But its fun!
Its so much fun.
I can go visit my kids
And Yvette
And my dog and cat
And sometimes I still want to go to work and
Well , you know Dr. Duchet…
You have a thing for him, don’t ya
No.
Admit it,
No!
Okay go see him…
It won’t take but a minute.
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Go, by the time the pizza is done, you be back here.
Thanks.
The K
now.Bot
By Nora Boyle
Seated in a lotus position on the floor, Kay screams in pain. She yells for her son, for her daughter, but imagines them, earbuds in, oblivious to her screams. She finally gets off the floor, taking her 59-year-old carcass into the garage to drive herself to the E.R. where the doctor told her she had osteoarthritis and needs a hip replacement.
“No, that’s crazy!” The doctor peered over his eyeglasses at her and wrote her a scrip for ten Vicodin and sent her home, referring her to an orthopedist. A morphine drip would have been preferable but like true yogi enthusiasts, Kay figured she was just kinked up and could work through the pain. She returned home to her evil teenagers
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who didn’t notice she was gone.
“We’re outta of milk,” said AJ, the 17-year-old bass guitarist usually accompanied by a girlfriend draped around him like a snake. She suggested he go get some. She took the painkillers and lay down, wondering if ten were enough for suicide or would it just warrant a stomach pump?
Kay went to work anyway, wending her way through the security protocols at Technotron, the biotech company in LaJolla where she worked as a software engineer. The security guard always called her Alice, making her wonder how secure the place was. She sat down in her cubicle next to ‘Young and Younger,’ her two officemates, and flipped on her computer, waiting days for it to accept the nine digit password for the network, and the ten digit password for her personal access, which of course, she mistyped three times, still in her Vicodin fog.
She waited patiently for the woman across the aisle to blow her nose, as if on cue, every day, sounding like a foghorn. Then, Kay groaned - she thought inaudibly - as she endured another muscle spasm. ‘Young’ asked her if she was ok, but she was in the throes of pain and could not speak. ‘Younger’ got involved then, coming over to place a hand on her back, showing concern.
‘It’s just a yoga injury, I’ll be alright.’
‘Are you sure?’
‘Yes, I’m fine!’
Kay thought she might have shouted that through clenched teeth, but she hated the attention. The pain finally stopped, but Kay saw stars. She waved the two off and stared into her computer, trying to regain consciousness. They say you can’t choose your relatives, but you can’t choose your coworkers, either. ‘Young and Younger’ whose real names escaped Kay – well most of the time, chatted amongst themselves, and then the gong show started, the daily standup scrum meeting with their manager, Fred.
Unfortunately, Kay had to stand up and the muscle spasm started again. She winced and gave her spiel in a thirty second digest, and seemed to escape unnoticed this time. Fred turned to her and said, “Dr. Duchet said to meet him in his office this morning, saying you signed up to be part of his research project.”
‘What?’
‘He said to meet him in his office for his research project on the um, neocortex implants
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to reverse the effects of aging or something…’
Young and Younger stared at Kay who rolled her eyes for a couple of minutes.
‘When?’
‘Now…’
Even Fred was younger than her. Kay went to see Dr. Duchet.
‘Dr. Duchet, hi, I know I signed on to help you with your research project about – ’
‘Arthritis! I’m on a mission to stop arthritis!’
‘Uh, well I know I said I would help, but unfortunately, I have a hip injury because of arthritis and so…’
‘Perfect!’
Dr. Duchet handed her some papers to sign, and mumbled something that sounded like
‘… I’m working with a team of neuroscientists on a project that synthesizes a neocortex implant and it is a simple procedure, takes two minutes…’
‘I don’t remember volunteering’
‘No, you get paid!’
‘Oh? How much?’
‘Well, $1000 per day for the course of the study – about twenty days.’
‘You think I would have remembered that’
‘So, let’s start this Saturday and we will insert this little plasticene capsule into your neocortex and -‘
‘Um, what?’
Dr. Duchet brushed by her, saying he was off to a meeting and he would see her Saturday, amidst her dumbstruck protests. Well, maybe she can stave off arthritis which was her diagnosis. Well, how could it hurt? And, one-thousand dollars a day! She could pay off that credit card. She could get new tires for her car; she could…break even –even. Divorced, Kay took the hit from her no-good, lying sack of shit, husband, Dave, when he lost his job and sued her for spousal support. And, then he went to live with
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his rich, skinny bitch, much younger girlfriend who collects alimony herself. ‘Amy.’ That’s her name, right? Kay decided not to worry that her memory loss might be a problem as she is pushing 60. She called it ‘C.R.S. – Can’t remember shit.’
Then, she did remember something
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At home, Kay greeted her cat and dog, Kirk and Spock. She yelled for her kids, waiting for signs of life. She fished out some iced cream from the fridge, and sat down in front of the TV to watch Star Trek and read her tarot cards.
‘Will I find true love? - False love, I know pretty well…’
Her phone rings and it is her older sister who lives out of state, who tells her about her diabetes, stomach ulcer, and probably when she will die. Kay thought it might be time for her antidepressant or wine or both.
Her son AJ cruises thru.
‘Heh - Heh, did you notice the milk went sour?’
‘No, why would I?’
Kay cupped the phone whispering ‘You never drink milk?’
‘Not when it’s sour…’
‘Where are you going?’
‘Out!’
‘Out where?’
‘To a friend’s house.’
‘Which friend?’
‘You don’t know ‘em..’
‘Humor me…’
‘Later, mom, I gotta go…’
Kay rolls her eyes, and pats her cats, Kirk and Spock, one black, one white. She listens to her sister, and returns to her tarot card reading, throwing down the Death card.
‘I got another call, can I call you back? Love you, bye-’
Kay looked at the tarot cards and muttered, ‘So for me, love is not only blind, but crippled with arthritis and in a wheelchair.’ She tries to get up and has another muscle spasm, locks up in pain. Kill me now, she says inaudibly.
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Kay thought the perfect suicide scenario is carbon monoxide poisoning and fantasized about going into the garage, getting into the car, and turning on noxious fumes that sent her to her eternal damnation but, she doesn’t have a garage, only a carport. She figured her rotting corpse would remain in the car for days before her kids noticed she was gone anyway.
Jennifer, her daughter comes in, seems surprised to see her.
‘I thought you were out?’
‘I thought you were out…’
‘Did you need me to get your pain meds?’
Kay holds up the bottle.
‘Can I have one?’
‘Absolutely not.’
‘I have my period…’
‘Okay…’
‘Love you – bye!’
Jen looks checks her IPhone, and leaves, not saying where she’s going or when she will be back or with whom – Kay really didn’t care. If she thought too much about what her kids did, she would probably have a stroke. Jen seemed to do well in school, but was moody and bitchy most of the time. Kay wondered if she got that from her – some sort of genetic insanity?
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On Saturday, Kay reluctantly drove to LaJolla to meet Dr. Duchet at Technotron. At first he ignored her, but then asked her to expose the back of her neck. He took some sort of nail gun and shot her in the nape of her neck without warning. It didn’t really hurt.
At first nothing happened, but then she felt dizzy, so Dr. Duchet suggested she lie down, explaining he inserted a nanobot into her bloodstream. Kay slipped into a dream where she began to morph into a much younger woman that nobody recognizes. She was jogging and eating right, and her kids hate her, and her friends and coworkers hate her, she got a new boyfriend, quit her job, and – then she woke up.
‘Did I nod off?’
‘Yes, but you can go home now.’
‘That’s it?’
‘Yes, come back next Saturday.’
‘What happened?’
‘You had an injection that should make you feel better.’
‘Okay, when do I get paid?’
He handed her a check and she did feel better.
Kay felt really good, and got in her car, stopping off at the bank to deposit her check for one thousand dollars. Woo hoo! She wondered how the nanobot would affect her, but so far nothing, just that dream about getting younger. That’s crazy. Why was she so neurotic? Of course, Kay blames American society for her crazy brainwaves, but today, she had cause for concern. She just sold her self to science. She pulled into the bank parking lot, and went in to deposit her check. She wished she had another ‘self’ to sell. Perhaps, she could clone herself or create a hologram to go to work for her.
Kay went home and looked for her kids, but they were nowhere. She had the house to herself, poured herself a large glass of wine, and then decided to take a fast shower before she parked it in front of the TV.
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Mirror Mirror
Kay takes a long, steamy shower, and when she gets out, passes by the wall mirror, spotting something weird. At first, she sees her fat, saggy, hazy 59 year old body in the mirror. She rubs out her reflection to peer into her own eyes when the mirror starts talking to her – her reflection ‘speaks’ to her
‘Look who you’ve become’
Kay looks around confused
‘Who me? Mirror mirror? Mirror mirror on the wall…?’
Kay goes in for an extreme close-up, wondering if she is okay.
The mirror responds
‘Yes, dear, you! Who are you now, do you know?’
For a second, Kay’s reflection in the mirror morphs into a spooky woman wearing horns; then it was gone.
Kay gulps and steps back to view herself in the mirror, cocking her head side to side, to see if that strange woman comes back.
Okay, helooo, Mirror, Mirror?
Kay taps on the mirror, but only sees herself,
Who am I?
I’m a skinny bitch Yes?
Suspicious “k” looks around but finally starts communicating with magic mirror
Mirror mirror on the wall who is the most fabulous of them all?
Oh, bitch you are
The image in the mirror changes into a hot young woman (megan fox)
K takes a giant step back to take in this polar opposite version of herself
She cocks her head from side to side in disbelief
Who are you?
You!
Me?
Yes, you are me and I am you?
Okay maybe I need to adjust my medication, but just for fun, lets go with it
Why am I having this bout of dysmorphia?
Oooh big word
What?
Okay mirror bitch bitch in the mirror
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Why am I seeing this hot body in the mirror
Because it is you bitch
How?
Well, its simple
There’s a magic formula that you’ve been working on but you missed one step
Which is
Believing it
Believing it?
Believe -The magic of believing
Oh, Mirror Bitch, I gotta go to work and if it weren’t for that seven year bad luck thing, I’d break you in two.
It occurred to Kay that the nanobot injection might be messing with her brain chemistry. She suddenly felt young and powerful. Funny, when she was young, she never felt that way. When Kay was young, she was – well, irrational and –
Oops, time to go to work. She took one last look in the mirror.
The mirror said Play nice
And wow, I kinda look like a movie start whatshername
No you’re not
Well, I should be
Okay, Salma Hayak I could be a Latina? Or who is that um. JLO or that Heidi Bitch
“u out “
Or
I look too young…what about Angelina Jolie – she’s pushing 40, 40 is a good age to stop aging \
Angelina Jolie?
Nope,
Why not
Because she already is a fembot
A what bot?
A fem bot, a she bot, a hot bot, but still a robot
I had no idea.
Kay sauntered out of the steamy bathroom, wrapped in her towel, and feeling light and spritely like in those fairies in those Disney movies, farting rainbows and bluebirds.
Then she sat down in front of the TV, turning on Star Trek. She picks her teeth and eats crackers, drinks wine and notices her hip no longer bothers her. And she is happy, delirious, laughing….gets up and does a happy dance, when her daughter comes in.
Mom? Are you okay
Yes, why?
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Dr. Duchet, what have you done to me?
What?
I’m seeing things, hallucinating…is this nanobot injection causing me to hallucinate, ‘cause, I still have to go to work, and y’know, be a worker bee at Technotron.
No, you are not hallucinating.
Then, wait, yes I am, I looked in the mirror and saw a whole ‘nother person reflected back to me.
Who
Well, that hot movie star chick and
Okay….that is a side effect, of course, it is not real, and so, just run with it
Run with it.
But how do I know what I really look like?
Dr Duchet pulls out a small mirror and hands it to her.
What do you see
Kay saw her extreme closeup in the pocket mirror, and she looked decidedly the same, maybe a little worse.
I see a tired old woman.
Yes, so see, it’s a just temporary effect. But that’s good – it means the drug is taking effect and you are seeing yourself as younger with more vitality
And, another thing kay...said hesitantly, I’m happy….I don’t know why I’m ‘happy’
Is this Prozac or ‘soma’ or morhine or something?
No it is a synthetic nanotube that –
A stent?
No
Doctor, I’m not sure what I am experiencing
You’re happy?
Yes, deliriously so.
And, so what’s the problem?
That is not who I am!
I mean I thought I was on drugs
And I’ve done drugs,
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Okay, let me explain it – the amygdala is –
Amygdala? Ithought it was a neocortex injection.
Don’t interrupt
The amygdala
The amygdala is an almond shaped mass of nuclei (mass of cells) located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain. It is a limbic system structure that is involved in many of our emotions and motivations, particularly those that are related to survival. The amygdala is involved in the processing of emotions such as fear, anger, and pleasure. The amygdala is also responsible for determining what memories are stored and where the memories are stored in the brain. It is thought that this determination is based on how huge an emotional response an event invokes. The amygdala is involved in autonomic responses associated with fear and hormonal secretions. Scientific studies of the amygdala have led to the discovery of the location of neurons in the amygdala that are responsible for fear conditioning. Fear conditioning is an associative learning process by which we learn through repeated experiences to fear something. Our experiences can cause brain circuits to change and form new memories. For example, when we hear an unpleasant sound, the amygdala heightens our perception of the sound. This heightened perception is deemed distressing and memories are formed associating the sound with unpleasantness. If the noise startles us, we have an automatic flight or fight response. This response involves the activation of the sympathetic division of the peripheral nervous system. Activation of the nerves of the sympathetic division results in accelerated heart rate, dilated pupils, increase in metabolic rate, and increase in blood flow to the muscles. This activity is coordinated by the amygdala and allows us to respond appropriately to danger. Amygdala is the integrative center for emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation. If the brain is turned upside down the end of the structure continuous with the hippocampus is called the uncus. If you peel away uncus you will expose the amygdala which abuts the of the hippocampus. Just like with the hippocampus, major pathways communicate bidirectionally and contain both efferent and afferent fibers.
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Okay, she said, and walked away, wondering what she got herself into.
He’s turning me into a sex bot, or something
He googled me
Idon’t want to be google
She always did have an overactive imagination.
And she went to her Agile scrum where she could not sit down and had tolisten totheworkerbees drone on inarticulately about their tasks at hand and then to the corpaganda of their mission for the day.
Corpaganda fortheday
Office warfare.
Young the coworker, approached her afterward and complimented her on her ‘look’
What?
You look really good in that color and very pretty today
Pretty? Huh.
She nodded and smiled warmly, but she was immediately suspicious since Young was male and 32 and weird but never once, did he ever compliment her.
She sat at her computer, trying to recall her password.
Remember your secret evil project, remember?
Younger, the coworker, cooed over the cubicle wall
Kay turned to see what thehell she was talking ab out,
Eve, the Younger coworker, laughed demonically. Like shewashigh or something.
My secret evil plan?
Theone you are working onwith Dr. Duchet. Rumor has it, that he’s inventing sexbots or fembots or soldier bots or something, so did you get injected?
Yes
Wow, and so what happened.
I felt a little woozy, otherwise nothing.
Oh, too bad. Well, you look really happy.
Kay rolled her eyes for a few minutes, and turned back to her computer screen. Happy?
That is not a familiar emotion.
In fact, happy is not how she felt, but how could she ‘look’ it?
What the fuck is my password?
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Oh, that, that’s a pipe dream but a really cool idea and
Dr. Duchet is trying to get funding for it and=
mirror
Yadda yadda yadda That’s just a neuro implant to make you think
you are young ahd happy
I think its laced with tranquilizers or antidepressants or (antipsychotics?)
And I do feel in control whatever that means.
Her password worked, though she doesn’t know what it is, and so she could begin her day of insufferable coding of documents for the software development of Technotrons newest release of VAGG One. Some sort of healthcare system rollout that would track the diseased among us.
She knew that they dabbled in enterprise systems, but this was for the federal government and social security, so it was going to be very profitable for Technotron. She was bored already.
Young and Younger were still trying to get her attention.
I heard Duchet is experimenting with neuroplasticity and using an algorithym that would tap into the biochemical –
Kay stopped him. I’m fine, stop worrying about my amygdala
Your what
My amygdala, which up to an hour ago, she didn’t know she had, but now it seems to be squirming like a toad in her brain.
She did recall Duchet mentioning something about programming the nanobot in her brain.
I wish, but the truth is we don’t know what will happen…I can’t seem to find the right algorithm you see and –
There’s not enough plastic surgery in the world that can change this so looking for the algorythym sounds like your only hope?
Heh. I am not using scientific research to make she bots
Fem bots
Sexy female robots
Well, nevertheless, nothing is gonna change you from a 66 year old sack of shit into Megan Fox or even Miley Cyrus, or Kim Kong?
Kim Kong?
I mean Kardashini?…please, bitch, you would be soooooooo tired if you had to drag that hiny around all day.
Okay, I will believe that I am a 26 year old hot fembot and just go to work and fend off the wolves as usual.
Good girl.
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I am young and beautiful and = not so young…(sighs)
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Scene 2
Back at the lab
it was a time of dark magic
Dr. Duchet and his team are talking over a computer. Dr. Duchet is listening to a guy explaining
‘execution algorithms’, which take large orders, break them up into smaller slices, and choose the size of those slices and the times at which they send them to the market in such a way as to minimise slippage. For example, ‘volume participation’ algorithms calculate the number of a company’s shares bought and sold in a given period – the previous minute, say – and then send in a slice of the institution’s overall order whose size is proportional to that number, the rationale being that there will be less slippage when markets are busy than when they are quiet. The most common execution algorithm, known as a volume-weighted average price or VWAP algorithm (it’s pronounced ‘veewap’), does its slicing in a slightly different way, using statistical data on the volumes of shares that have traded in the equivalent time periods on previous days. The clock-time periodicities found by Hasbrouck and Saar almost certainly result from the way VWAPs and other execution algorithms chop up time into intervals of fixed length.
The most striking periodicity involves large peaks of activity separated by almost exactly 1000 milliseconds: they occur 10-30 milliseconds after the ‘tick’ of each second. The spasms, in contrast, seem to be governed not directly by clock time but by an event: the execution of a buy or sell order, the cancellation of an order, or the arrival of a new order. Average activity levels in the first millisecond after such an event are around 300 times higher than normal. There are lengthy periods – lengthy, that’s to say, on a scale measured in milliseconds – in which little or nothing happens, punctuated by spasms of thousands of orders for a corporation’s shares and cancellations of orders. These spasms seem to begin abruptly, last a minute or two, then end just as abruptly.
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Work routine
At the LaJolla CA offices of TechnoTron Research Lab, K drives through the security gate, greeted by an armed guard and a german shepherd.
Hi Tom
Heh Anita!
Carpool partner, why does he always call you anita
I dunno
Security badges, robotic workers, and log on to computers
Standup meetings
Mean boss, young and younger
And the woman who blows her nose every day on cue. She sounds like a honking goose.
Repeat
Tom scans her badge, and she thumbprints a device to authorize her entry, and after entering the building, she is greeted by FaceKey, a retinol scanning device before she goes to her lab and office.
and flips on her laptop and begins her password protocols
After work
She drives in traffic on the freeway and flips on the radio, but instead she loads an mp3 player dr. duchet gave her about the research
creating synthetic neocortexes based on the operating principles of the human neocortex with the primary purpose of extending our own neocortexes. He believes that the neocortex of an adult human consists of approximately 300 million pattern recognizers. He draws on the commonly accepted belief that the primary anatomical difference between humans and other primates that allowed for superior intellectual abilities was the evolution of a larger neocortex.
He claims that the six-layered neocortex deals with increasing abstraction from one layer to the next. He says that at the low levels, the neocortex may seem cold and mechanical because it can only make simple decisions, but at the higher levels of the hierarchy, the neocortex is likely to be dealing with concepts like being funny, being sexy, expressing a loving sentiment, creating a poem or understanding a poem, etc. He believes that these higher levels of the human neocortex were the enabling factors to permit the human development of language, technology, art, and science. He stated, "If the quantitative improvement from primates to humans with the big forehead was the enabling factor to allow for language, technology, art, and science, what kind of qualitative leap can we make with another quantitative increase? Why not go from 300 million pattern recognizers to a billion?”[54]
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n 1999, Kurzweil published a second book titled The Age of Spiritual Machines, which goes into more depth explaining his futurist ideas. The third and final part of the book is devoted to predictions over the coming century, from 2009 through 2099. While in The Singularity Is Near he makes fewer concrete short-term predictions, but includes many longer-term visions. He believes that with radical life extension will come radical life enhancement.
He is confident that within 10 years we will have the option to spend some of our time in 3D virtual environments that appear just as real as real reality, but these will not yet be made possible via direct interaction with our nervous system. He believes that 20 to 25 years from now, we will have millions of blood-cell sized devices, known as nanobots, inside our bodies fighting against diseases, improving our memory, and cognitive abilities. He believes that a machine will pass the Turing test by 2029, and that around 2045, "the pace of change will be so astonishingly quick that we won't be able to keep up, unless we enhance our own intelligence by merging with the intelligent machines we are creating". He stresses that "AI is not an intelligent invasion from Mars. These are brain extenders that we have created to expand our own mental reach. They are part of our civilization. They are part of who we are. So over the next few decades our human-machine civilization will become increasingly dominated by its non-biological component." In 2008, Kurzweil said in an expert panel in the National Academy of Engineering that solar power will scale up to produce all the energy needs of Earth's people in 20 years. According to Kurzweil, we only need to capture 1 part in 10,000 of the energy from the Sun that hits Earth's surface, in order to meet all of humanity's energy needs.
blood-cell sized devices, known as nanobots,
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WORK/home/work/home
Drudgery corpaganda, nitnats, meetings, going in circles, agile,
Home
MA! Three kids, evil teenagers…evil ex husband, two dogs, a house mortgage three times, and bills, bills, bills, up thewazoo
EX husband, Larry
Left her for a much younger woman
I was a war bride
Which war
Thewar on drugs
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\But everytime she looks in the mirror she sees hotbot, her alter ego
The Race for Immortalityhttp://gizmodo.com/5902703/bucky-balls-could-double-your-lifespan
Kay is a trekkie, with a thing for science officer spock
She and neighbor Lucy are watching TV (ST the final frontier, 1989)
And getting high, eating, and popping Xanax
You really got a thing or Star Trek? Have you watched the New Star Trek?
Yes, they were good, but I did notlike the way spock was portrayed and even Uhura seemed out of character and that haircut reminded me of Mo Howard
Who
The three stooges so
I just love spock
This one
No, but Not the new spock
Not the old spock
But the real spock
I’m a spockette
All logic, no emotion
Pure science, exacting, precise, boldly going where I’ve never been before
Kohlinar or colander rite of passage
And why are the aliens so hideous? Why aren’t they gorgeous? Supersexy superior golden gods?
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Alright, I got to be going?
Did you want to watch something else>
No, its time for my medication, meditation, and yoga
And chanting
See ya
digs into the cookies.
Theme music for star trek fades up.
Goes to ER with a hip injury after doing yoga with lucy (kundalini)
And needs a hip replacement.
What meds do you take
Valium, Zoloft, blood pressure, statins, cholesterol, nitro, asthma, diabetes, insulin, Benadryl
Smoke
No, oh, a little weed now and then
Drink, no,
Well a little wine at night
Half a bottle
Gets drunk, smokes weed, pops pills
Evil teenagers
So, dr. Frankenstein what r u cooking p at the lab, cloning people?
Stoner son, AJ
Depressed daughter jennifer with skeevy bf
Best friend or sister, whitney fat
Watch south park
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Talk text or online
I’m just a software engineer, not really a scientist
Reverse aging, disease, Einstein proves that time stops etc
Evil teens
I’m gonna stay with dad
Why
Because he’s never home
Dad, asshole attorney
Argues about everything
Chaos of homelife and family
Longs to escape
Dr. duchet
So how are my little nanobots doing
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Fast forward
Implanted with nanobots, Kay is the first cybernetic bot who now is 800 years old.
She is on a spaceship and goes to her quarters where she meets her Vulcan lover, who lies in bed waiting for her.
Darling, so good to be home. Who knew there were really Vulcans?
And that they had sex?
How was work today, dear?
Well, the universe cannot run itself.
Nobot 1.0 (30) short story 7500 words
12/28/2014
Villin Dr Duchet
Villainy
So one week later, any noticeable effects>
Well, I can’t seem to eat
Whatyamean
I’m eating like a bird, I thought I would be able to eat a lot.
no
What do you mean I cant eat whatever I want?
You can’t
I thought once you got me injected with your voodoo junk science, then
I could eat anything I want
Madam, you are mistaken, just because we are conducting an significant neuroscientific experiment to reverse aging, does not give you cart blanche at the food court
Well, I just thought
You thought wrong
Actually I’m eating less
So? You are overweight, are you not?
Well it scares me –I’ve never experienced a loss appetite before
It’s a side effect
What do you mean
Well, the nanobot balances everything an you start eating right
And exercising, and all those things that promote health
Well, that just sucks.
Nobot 1.0 (30) short story 7500 words
12/28/2014
Don’t you feel better
A little
Go home and get some rest and I will see you next week.
He hands her her $1000 paycheck which for some reason, Kay nearly forgot about,
And sauntered out on a cloud of financial euphoria, also a feeling she never felt before
Once in her car, she felt a little dizzy and she was still furious that the only changes or effects she felt from this stupid experiment was a loss of appetite which is fine since she needed to drop a few pounds, but what she didn’t tell the doctor is that when she drank wine or smoked weed, she also had some adverse reaction which prevented her indulgence…so drinking, smoking, and overeating? Are out!
