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Elegy for Rodger Fox
I found out that he died while attending Question Time today. I knew him a bit: we were neighbours for the last several years while I was...
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Amanda Riddell
May 29, 20241 min read
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a brief invasion of Parliament
They bottlenecked at the gate, Having come straight from their lunch break To put the brakes on a controversial Bill. They carried some...
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Amanda Riddell
May 8, 20241 min read
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Pushing The Boulder
An unassuming patio. Two guys in deck chairs, beers in hand, munching on sliced bread. Hal, laid-back but smartly dressed; Charlie, a...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 19, 20244 min read
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Programmed for Pleasure
The year is 2195, not long after Fred's death. Turns out that immortality is really boring. Sexbots were all the rage. Real people were...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 16, 20243 min read
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Revenge of the Veggies
Did you know that genetics was discovered by some monk breeding peas? Well, it was. In this dimension, the Renaissance never happened....
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 16, 20244 min read
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A rhyming fancy
Life grows colder. The world's getting older; The angel on my shoulder Is getting bolder, Though I told 'er I'm allergic to love. Love,...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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The Dispatcher
Kelly had been in the bunker for three years. The previous dispatcher, Ellis, was rather laconic: she'd had to figure out most of it for...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 27, 20244 min read
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Just Like Yesterday (part 5)
Now that all the sweet niceness is out of the way, let's get down to the real story. - Tina wasn't born into the crim way of life, but...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 23, 20243 min read
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Another Edgar poem
The number opens with an invocation/karakia, then some kind of vocal refrain, then this: This crown rests heavy, Yet I cannot take it...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 22, 20241 min read
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Weapons of War
2034 was a year of hope, a year of optimism. Neuralink was about to make a new brain-to-computer chip that would render traditional...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 11, 20244 min read
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Reginald's Sonnet
My love, how deep thy beauty stirs affection; It comes not from a coat of painted gloss, But rather springs from perfect imperfection...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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Another day, another tragedy.
In the premium capital gains grove, Where citizens who strove To prove their love For King and Country Once earned paltry wages, A...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 6, 20241 min read
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Just Like Yesterday (part 4)
Early morning light reflects off glass buildings constructed during a previous neoliberal revolution - Rogernomics, as it was known in...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 28, 20244 min read
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A funny memory
When Wallace Street was in full swing, we all had the idea that we should do a podcast: so Peter, Stephen, Aidin, Ethan and I gave that a...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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Just Like Yesterday (part 3)
Early morning mist creeps through the hills of Kelburn. Jade zones out to some meditative music on her portable speakers. 'Jade, have...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 13, 20246 min read
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Just Like Yesterday (part 2)
The seniors were crowding into the van. Sean and Dana were busy putting seat belts around people and loading wheelchairs with the...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 8, 20245 min read
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My twin brother
is also called Stephen. And yeah, he used to dominate me. Lots of people involved in my stuff were/are into kink. That's why my script...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 7, 20241 min read
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Manhattan Stardust
That's the title of one of Emanuel's books. I thought I'd mention why I've got the sound, despite having never visited New York. Well,...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 7, 20241 min read
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Merging with Gaia
The world was changing. Anthropogenic climate change had moved from a fringe science espoused by privileged elites to a daily reality...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 6, 20249 min read
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My transness - a timeline
I'm going to presage this with a comment: forcing trans people to divulge their story, then judging their fitness for sex reassignment...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 3, 20243 min read
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