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"You want me to go back and kill Adam and Eve?! Are you fucking mad? Didn't youlearn about paradoxes in your fancy school?" Cane said furiously, tossing the manilaenvelope on the table holding his assignment.The man in the suit across from him smiled devilishly. "Humans have plagued this earthfor long enough. We are the greatest enemy to ever set foot on this planet. We intendon fixing the problem right at the creation. We want to cause such a paradox that God*has* to step in and intervene, and that's when you are going to attack. We intend onsending you with a...

Tales of a Domesticated House-Cat Part I   I’d like to address your kitchen chemicals and how they relate to my solitude.   My primitive power, that instinct, the intuition of my body, has been shut off.   A power outage.   At first I waited patiently for it to turn back on. I’d take long walks seeking the inspiration that would surely return…I mean, it always eventually did turn itself back on. But that winter the rain hit hard and the mice hid well, too well, as to not even present a shadow to the silent sniper within me,...

The brilliance of the amber light cast by the Tennessee sun was valued highly by the people living under it. And as it was, it was remarkably appropriate as the Clement’s only son arrived for dinner with his freshly won girlfriend. The dusk was flattering to the old property; the lower wavelengths of light seem to appeal more to human eyes than any other and it gave the house a lambent glaze. Normally, the blemishes of the house would be noticeable with an extraordinary precision but as it stood everything looked flawless. It was as if their arrival at this...