Aye AI It’s the latest addition to the frightening list soon, they say, we wordsmiths will be unnecessary machines will vomit everything they need to get our messages across. Across where? Who knows? Giant buckets of dictionaries, heated, agitated until, with a burp of punctuation, a sentence escapes. A grammatically correct construction: born to be […]
Winter comfort – 100 words
Winter comfort Low sun slides behind fells, it’s time to light the fire. Ash in the drawer is colder than death. I scrape it into the bucket. Five kindling pieces and a firelighter built in a shape that reminds me of a trebuchet. Two small dry logs. One match. No more. From haunches watch flames […]
Planned outage – 100 words
Planned outage Gosh, it’s quiet only cars shushing past and the flop of a dog toasting her other flank in a sun splat. Get-things-clean machines stopped burping. Heat-things-up-machines are chilly. No clicks and rattles from keep-it-cool machines. The voice in brain, though, is still shrill. What are you going to do now? Maybe I could […]
Five little letters – 100 words
Scroll down for more – 100 words
Scroll down for more How can I steam spinach when scrolling shows me 50 ways with melted cheese? How can I rest on my sofa when scrolling parades relentless high achievers? How can I live modestly when scrolling suggests perfect trainers or scented candles to die for? How can I stay in when scrolling tantalises […]