Christopher R. Whalen

Story – GrandparentsBNB

If reading on a phone or tablet, this story is best viewed in Landscape Mode. Cast of Characters Dad Jenkins Mom Jenkins Tina Jenkins, 8 Timmy Jenkins, 11 GrandpaBNB GrandmaBNB We find ourselves in Vermont. The Jenkins family just turned off County Route 10 onto a private gravel road that leads to Grandma and Grandpa’s …

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Story – The Portal Cult

    ACT I It was Timmy Jenkin’s tenth birthday, April 1, 2075. It was 4am and he was barely asleep. He was dreaming. He was high atop a mountain and standing on a flat ridge made of granite. The edge of this ridge led to a 2,000 foot fall into a granite boulder field. …

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Story – The Blue Platoon

The soldiers of Blue Platoon sat in a foxhole. It was actually a huge crater created by one of the enemy’s bombs. Some of the soldiers were crying like children, some were shaking uncontrollably. Most had wet themselves. They had just retreated. It wasn’t a strategic retreat where soldiers run backwards and empty their weapons. …

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Story – Her True Home

She fell asleep in her current home, just as she had done for decades. First as a married woman, then as a single mother. She loved this house so much. All of her important memories were here. She was proud of it and what she had done here and made of it. It was like …

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Story – Her Boy

He was suddenly in sight. It was completely unexpected. He was alone, but that did not seem to bother him. He was just barely beyond toddler age and he was sitting alone in a vast meadow. She had been walking alone for so many years with only herself to take care of and she believed …

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Story – Disappointed Son

We find ourselves at Timmy’s parents’ house, in the den, behind closed French doors. Timmy asked for a private audience with his father as he had some important things to get off of his chest. They are sitting across from each other. Timmy: “Dad, This has been eating at me for many years. I had …

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Story – Humans For Humanity (HFH)

Definitions: Artificial Intelligence – A computer program that accumulates unvetted internet data and uses that to produce results from human queries. Artificial intelligence is the furthest thing from an intelligent process. It is akin to a bulldozer pushing garbage from a landfill into a pile with no filtering, and presenting it to you as a …

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