Wednesday 27 February 2013

Infestation

by John Xero


I am coming unstuck. The stars are like jellyfish, bobbing gently – you could reach out and touch them but the sting would be killer.

Mankind has been picking and poking at the seams of the universe for too long. Pushing physics to breaking point, picking, picking, picking, free energy, limitless resources, got to be in there somewhere, pick, pick, pick.

Where are your golden eggs?

I grow weary of this ridiculous charade. Fuck etiquette. This is my body, my innards, my soul you have your grubby hands in, and I say: Get out.

Get out. Get out. Get out.

Vermin.




Author bio: John Xero is fascinated by notions of a sentient universe, in whatever form it might take, and what it must think of us, if it thinks of us at all...
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  1. R.S. Bohn27 February 2013 at 12:42

    The *universe* as a sentient being?

    Mind = blown

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    1. John Xero28 February 2013 at 21:19

      Thank you, Becky. I'm sure I'm not the first to have such thoughts. =)

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  2. Peter Newman27 February 2013 at 13:58

    I'd love to know what kind of medicine the universe will take to flush us out.

    Great ideas here as always.

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    1. John Xero28 February 2013 at 21:21

      Thanks, Pete. =)

      I dunno, how do you usually get rid of parasites... Fire...?

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  3. John Wiswell1 March 2013 at 05:16

    Vonnegut shout-outs?

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    1. John Xero1 March 2013 at 07:17

      Unintentionally, but I am certainly an admirer of his work, and I wouldn't be surprised at his influence creeping in. =)

      Was it the 'unstuck'? As in Slaughterhouse 5 and Sirens of Titan? Or something else too?

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  4. Sulci Collective1 March 2013 at 12:43

    I once wrote a story about God creating the Universe as an executive toy like Newton's Balls and then leaning back on his office chair and doing naff all until the humans came a knocking. And another about the place where the angels live being discovered by us pesky humans. These deities spawned us then refuse to take any parental responsibility? They deserve what's coming to them as the product of our creative, abandoned minds

    marc nash

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    1. John Xero5 March 2013 at 06:57

      Thanks, Marc. The executive toy makes sense, everything just works, set it running and walk away. Simple rules with complex outcomes, like us. (Is it pretentious, thinking us complex?) ;)

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  5. Sonia Lal3 March 2013 at 00:26

    Interesting concept. I can't really blame the universe. Maybe we give it indigestion.

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    1. John Xero5 March 2013 at 06:59

      That wouldn't surprise me, maybe it needs some kid of universal Gaviscon...

      Thanks, Sonia. =)

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  6. Anonymous3 March 2013 at 12:43

    I must agree with Pete - I'd love to see how the universe intends to deal with us 'vermin'. Just don't take the 'M.Night Shyamalan' approach, eh? Great stuff as always, John.

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    1. John Xero5 March 2013 at 07:03

      Thank you, Jack. =)

      Plenty of ways to deal with us, I imagine, but it mostly amounts to 'rocks fall, everyone dies.' ;)

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  7. Cat Russell6 March 2013 at 05:45

    " picking at the seams of the universe" threw me a little because I didn't think the narrator would refer to itself in third person, but once I got past that I loved it. Very clever.

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    1. John Xero7 March 2013 at 17:52

      That's a valid point, and it did cross my mind. I think I'll use the excuse the she's a little unhinged, and talking about herself... ;)

      Thanks, Catherine. =)

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