Fear and Loathing in a Cosmic Lacuna
December 39, 2025: It’s well into 2026 at the moment, but it feels like we’re in retrograde so I'm having a hard time advancing the year counter. I think the saddest thing of all is that we completely lack hope. From 1848 until the 21st millennium, humanity had some form of viable alternative to the... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptWhat are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?View all responses I never quite understood the obsession with life extension and LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity). What are you planning on doing with your life if it extends into another decade or five? Anyone thinking they'd do something different is... Continue Reading →
July 1, 2025: A wing of night sweeps the world, like the twitch of a vast shutter. Billions of pitch-dark non-minds idly steer their vacant gazes about. But there is no light to be found. Their sun was stolen by black ships in the dead of night. Now they have nothing. Absolute absence; no light,... Continue Reading →
January 30, 2025: It’s 2025. “Why am I still alive?” Asked a billion people as an invisible longitude brushed them into the new year. People came; people went. Thoughts vaporized. Faces merged into reflections. But there was one constant: The exhumation of dreams. Watching something dead die all over again. Dreams even deader than last year’s, receding ever... Continue Reading →
Status Report on Biofilm T37 A Short Story by C. M. Oguz *** Dear Galactic Council, We have identified a small bead covered in a thin layer of biofilm orbiting a small G-class star in the Orion-Cygnus arm. Within this biofilm, we have discovered that there are hundreds of clusters of microbes, fiercely competing, killing... Continue Reading →
A chronological list of the best and most memorable moments from the literal eternities I've spent gaming. [1999] - Red Alert I: It's hard to decide between Age of Empires I and Red Alert I, but despite playing both like a rabid, salivating zombie during my childhood, I've come to realize that the latter ultimately... Continue Reading →
Video Games and their Cognitive Orbit: A Tale of Dishonesty and Hostility An essay by C. M. Oguz *** Although I think it’s redundant to explain why games are better pastime hobbies than, for instance, scrolling social media or binge-watching a tv-show, I will indulge the nay-sayers with a brief foray into why this is... Continue Reading →
Daughter of Anatolia A Short Story by C. M. Oguz *** It's a cold winter's evening in Istanbul. A dockworker waiting for the nightshift rests his forearms against the rusty black railings of the Eminönü waterfront, gazing idly across the inlet. Karaköy looms up ahead, streaks of color illuminating its glass vertices. Large edifices of... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: It was getting a bit thick and stuffy in the other post, ideas were curdling into nightmares and logic was warping into lunacy, and also the word limit was approaching. We continue here. September 9, 2024: One of the absolute worse things that can happen in a conflict is the verminization of the enemy... Continue Reading →
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