The Great Splice

Today we had an Internet outage. People from AT&T Fiber told us it’s a big one. They said their had to repair a large backbone cable. I imagined how it might look like: two ends of a large cable with hundreds of fiber lines from each end, and they had to splice all them together. What would happen if they made a mistake and I started receiving somebody else’s Internet feed? I would see different movies and TV programs, my Facebook and Instargam feeds would show me different pictures and articles. etc. What else could go wrong? ...

November 1, 2024 · 2 min · 392 words

Marcia and Leon

Write a story about these two cats. The Siamese cat on the right is a girl, her name is Marcia. She is three years old. The boy on the left is 6 months old, his name is Leon. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Marcia, the elegant three-year-old Siamese cat, was quite accustomed to having the entirety of the house as her domain. Every corner, every perch, every cozy nook was hers, and she’d basked in the attention of her humans. Her days consisted of lounging by the sunniest window, playing with her favorite toys, and indulging in luxurious naps. ...

April 1, 2024 · 3 min · 485 words