May Twenty Eighth. 28 of May. There may be a day keeping the date will no longer be of any significance. In any case, it's the fourth day and already I feel inclined to forget the days of the week. Keeping track of internet activity has kept me aware that it's Friday. Was it really Tuesday when things were still normal? Was it really around dawn of that day fate decided to play a *cruel* joke on us?

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The twenty seventh has been a productive day. I'm not sure which thing was the greatest. I set my alarm clock for six AM. I want to make sure everybody is up and at 'em by dawn. So far, everyone has been very compliant. Only the other guy who was in the crosswalk (Will) showed any discontent with getting up early, but he did not object. I'm starting to get curious about this, (as if to imply I wasn't already) at the cause of this. But first things first, assume the worst and prepare for

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Twenty six of May. The power is still on. The water is still running. The phone lines and Internet still work. But I know that unless the entire crew of electricians and linemen and everyone else who runs them are still here, they won't last forever. I am still at home, and I found no trace of my family or nearest neighbors. I hope they will turn up while I'm still here. The first full day since everybody disappeared entirely without explanation.

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On May fifteenth, I would never have dreamt what would happen during my off period. I came home from the shopping mall and would not be coming back in ten days. Yet something real unusual happened between now (May 25) and then, and my break would become anything but. It was 8:15 AM, and dawn was present. I was up watching one of my favorite cartoon shows from the 1980s, one I enjoyed as a kid, and do even more as an adult. One which furthermore was rebooted. It was on my desk

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I previously did an in universe summary of a story I am quite fond of. One in which no two bodies coming out of limbo ever will show indication of being blood relatives, not even if the two were maternal twins before. Everybody is either reliant on thaumic energy to live lest they become mortally ill in its absence, or they are adverse to it, and will get their brains cooked if exposed. Only five people in the entire world can live and thrive in both environments, with thaumic power and

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There seems to be some extent of confusion where the term immortalityis concerned. The real definition is "not going to die, period." Should they pass into death at any point, they weren't immortal. What do you suppose "Mortal" means? It means you are going to die, as in a mortal illness or a mortal injury. Modern writers often use the term to mean an individual will not age, and will not become brittle and increasingly vulnerable to related illness and susceptible to frailness

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In my last post I wrote about a fictitious universe from the POV of one of its inhabitants who knows quite a bit more than the rest. In the story that inspired it, a couple of characters with a mysterious past caught my attention. While we never see the original lives of most of them, we encounter the lives of these two less than the rest. Not only that, they get on well from the start and have never been shown to fight. Furthermore, their friendship is stronger than all the others at

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You're not going to believe me. Nop- Nobody in their right mind could possibly believe me, but it's true. Twenty years ago today at 8:15 AM everybody on earth disappeared in an instant and were not seen again, you and me included. Minutes later, a small pocketful of people returned exactly where they disappeared in alien bodies. They had no idea what had happened other than they were the only people around where they were. Which few they encountered were total strangers. As hours and

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