Plugs

David Kopaska-Merkel’s book of humorous noir fiction based on nursery rhymes, Nursery Rhyme Noir 978-09821068-3-9, is sold at the Genre Mall. Other new books include The zSimian Transcript (Cyberwizard Productions) and Brushfires (Sams Dot Publishing).

Ken Brady’s latest story, “Walkers of the Deep Blue Sea and Sky” appears in the Exquisite Corpuscle anthology, edited by Jay Lake and Frank Wu.

Read Rudi’s story “Detail from a Painting by Hieronymus Bosch” at Behind the Wainscot.

Jonathan Wood’s story “Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle” from Electric Velocipede 15/16 is available online.

Childhood still sucks

by David

So one day after school Carlos says he’s moving to the Sun.  Ever since he grew the second head he’s been acting strangely, but I was like “whoa!”  And Billy goes “can I have your Game Tesseract™?” but Carlos says he’s taking it with him.  Now you’re probably thinking, “didn’t I learn in school people can’t live on the Sun,” but they totally solved that problem at Beijing Tech, or someplace in Asia, which I saw in a web comic on NewJournal earlier this week.  This guy had a totally realistic simulation. You could have multiple avatars just like in a real game and it was like you were really on the Sun. But that’s not what I wanted to tell you.  See, Internet access between here and the Sun really sucks and since Carlos has been my best friend since, like, last summer, I think we should move to the Sun too. I’m sure you can get a really cool job there, probably better than you have here, because everything is new and on the edge there.  Or, this is better, I could go live with Uncle Mort on Mercury, and he has those adapted horses and I’ve always wanted to ride one. I’d be way closer to the Sun, so Carlos and I could see each other and stuff.  Cos, like, I was going to invite him to my next birthday party and I can’t do that, I mean, I can do that, but he can’t come, if he lives on the Sun and I still live here on Titan.

The end

4 Responses to “Childhood still sucks”

  1. Louise Daileigh Says:

    September 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    Bravo David. Childhood does suck. I’d like to hear an expansion on what those adapted horses do, exactly.

  2. Jason Fischer Says:

    September 18th, 2008 at 12:39 am

    Nice work. I think you got the voice just right. Lovely!

  3. David Says:

    September 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    well, you know, it gets really hot…and cold. And they breathe vacuum… hi-ho Silver–melt!

  4. David Says:

    September 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Thanks Jason.