I submitted three pieces for consideration for the December 2024 issue of Moss Piglet magazine. The theme: The Future:
The ChronoFix Clinic
Do you suffer sleepless nights brooding on poor decisions? Wish you could remake choices knowing what you know now? Would you pay handsomely to take another crack at a tough situation?
Introducing the ChronoFix Clinic! Using cutting edge technology we’re able to remedy all of your lingering regrets! Solutions include: altered recollections, memory removal, and time travel. And for our discriminating clientele, our Butterfly Effect Solution will make the decision you made the right one at that time - no ill effects “Unconditionally Guaranteed”*!
The ChronoFix Clinic - Bringing the Future of the Past to the Here and Now!
*(Some conditions apply)
ElectroChild
Hi friends. As an older mom of six rambunctious children, I’ve seen it all. While I cherish the memories of little ones playing happily, exploring, and becoming themselves, I don’t miss midnight feedings, temper tantrums, and copious amounts of bodily fluids seemingly everywhere. If there’d been a way to enjoy the good times while avoiding the awful, I’d have signed up for that experience in a heartbeat. That’s why ElectroChild was developed - allowing people to be parents without all the messy parenting.
On a full charge, ElectroChild can be an energetic bundle of fun for up to 12 hours. This little one is down to 17% charge (in the Blue Zone) and is ready to be put down for a nap and plugged into a standard electrical outlet (solar panels available in select models).
Fully customizable with a host of operating modes to give you the best quality time money can buy!
ElectroChild - a 24/7 delight!
Veronica X
Veronica X - the glammest kitty in the city. Queen of the scene. At any party, pity the attention seekers and pretenders to her throne. She’s the ultimate viper, a spotlight swiper, a character sniper. She’s so chill she can freeze time. And when the party isn’t near her, she goes to it. Her VR rig is the best money can buy. And when holograms become a thing, she’ll be the first to strut her stuff in virtual 3D.
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Blanche admired how her virtual character, Veronica X, could own any room she walked into. Blanche, in her VR rig, could watch Veronica for hours. She was everything Blanche wished she could be. And what was really amazing was how sometimes it felt like Veronica acted independently of her control - Veronica would find an underground bar hitherto unknown, or she’d say some unimaginably hip thing. It was like she had a mind of her own. It was occasionally unsettling but undisputedly cool.
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Veronica X watched on her VR view-screen as her virtual creation, Blanche, was so proud of her “digital creation”! Imagine that - Blanche creating anyone as fabulous as her magnificent self! So amusing. She wasn’t sure how this emergent behaviour had appeared; it hadn’t been programmed in, but such was what happened when working with digital life.
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In their quiet moments…
Blanche mused…
Veronica X considered…
Blanche postulated…
Veronica X hypothesized…
…did she make me?
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