Nick Stokes

The Possible: An Experiment Beginning (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You begin. She opens her eyes. They diverge and live through the expanding adjacent possible becoming. They encounter pandemic, climate change, social unrest, artificial intelligence. They face existential threat. Some of our futures end. Some of us ascend.

The Possible is an experiment. The Possible is a beginning.

The Possible is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"She files for unemployment again. She's filed, on her laptop on her lap, pressed submit. Now she sits on the couch, on the couch's lap, a couch is nothing but lap. And her?, nothing but laptop. She stares at her fish, a goldfish, staring back at her from its tank, too large for its tank. Its brother or sister or friend, her other fish, died a few days ago, presumably not from coronavirus. It had not after all gotten out and about in the city for weeks, and when it did for necessities like toilet paper and a new plastic underwater tree for stimulation, it had worn a mask and not touched its face and maintained greater than six feet distance from others. It thoroughly washed its hands in soap and water when it got home. I have been doing my duty for humanity by staying home in my tank and collecting subsistence unemployment and not serving food in the restaurant for other people's money and tips and giggles, the fish tells her with its eyes, its fishy telepathic brain power. She can't take it, the intensity of the fish's gaze, the will in its eyes, its questioning of her, what have you been doing for humanity and the advancement of consciousness and civilization lately? She breaks the gaze. It's right, but it's hard to take from a fish."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Stokes
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215131916
• Artikelnr.: 72370433

Autorenporträt

Nick Stokes is the author of the novel AFFAIR, first serialized by The Seattle Star, the (anti)-choose-your-own-adventure YOU CHOOSE, and the attempt to consciousness ARTIFACT COLLECTIVE. His short prose and fictions and nothings have been published by Bumf, Paper Darts, Crab Orchard Review, Mixer, Waccamaw, Prick of the Spindle, Knock, and others. His plays have been seen in various venues: DUELS in a built garden at 12th Ave Arts in Seattle and On the Boards NWNW Fest, WAS IS WILL BE MUSIC in a Seattle hotel room, and THE SOUND WE MAKE in Tacoma's Old City Hall. DUELS, produced in 2016 by amador/stokes, received reviews that said such words as "an absorbing work of agricultural absurdity" and "a vibrant, surreal production" and "DUELS presents a cornucopia of senses, languages, themes, and genres ... reminds us what it means to be human" and "Come the f*** on with this s***." He once-upon-a-time packed mules in Montana, lives in Tacoma, and is virtually sometimes at nickstokes.net.