Soon, he had his spliced vine growing, and grabbing, and it took over
their back yard. His parents notified the proper authorities and it was
sprayed with a herbicide, most of it died; but
secretly a bit had survived, a tiny shoot growing in hidden spot. He dug it
up, and took it out, way outside of town, and planted it in the
overgrown lawn of an abandoned grain bin. Soon that plant had grown
enormous taking over the old bin and most of the lot before somebody
spotted it, alerted the authorities, who sprayed it yet again. But this
time it didn't die, it was affected though, the herbicide was like holy
water for the twisted leprous arborific parasite, and it grew and
mutated into the Ivy. Of course the authorities knew of his devious
meddling in the genetic code of such dangerous plants, he was
brought before the juvenile court, sentence to behavioral therapy and
the "LiL' Gene Splicers Kit" was taken off the market, litigation is
still ongoing
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Phenomenally Breezy
Vogt was lying on his side, propped up on one elbow, looking through a
transit, fixed on top of a short tripod, while a scanner did it's own
thing twenty feet away. Opened his closed eye and peered over the
instrument, the subsidence ran in a straight line, the width stayed
within ten or twenty feet, depth from zero to.. Lucky had made his
turn and was coming back on the row where the deepest depression
started. He wouldn't really know how deep it was until the corn had
been cut. Closed one eye and peered into the scope, flipped the 4X
extender, the image was a little blurry, too much wind, a big gust blew a
bunch of husks, chaff, and lose stalks into the air; it all seemed to
fly at him at once, he squinted, ducked down little, grabbed the transit
as it was hit and tipping over, just in time to witness the optical
phenomenon of apparent size when scanner will fall over onto the combine
eating it's way to the subsidence.
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Urgent: Delta Wave Alert Link {Activate}.
The entity inside his head, lucky had started to think of as the
"Other Lucky" and it had been monitoring the map 1953 when a
chronological anomaly occurred. The time code had diverged into two separate streams one just seconds ahead of the other. It ran a check on
Lucky, "Ya feelin ok". "Sure", lucky trying to achieve a
calm through the repetition of the corn slaughter, wasn't really
into this intrusion from a suspect reality, expand calm, then Other
Lucky interrupted and broke any expanding calm that had developed, "there
was an anomalous chronological event that has... ta tell truth...
baffled me". Luckies anxiety leveled up one notch. "I
don't want cha ta worry, but I thought I should just let ya know. Ya
know?" Lucky triggered an anxiety threshold, and sent
another delta wave alert cast. The next instant: "{Dad}:
your mom's going to be there soon, layer calm",out of
astonishment Lucky forgot where he was at for second, his dad
was not one to send messages, he was very old and mostly likely had to
wake up out of his mid-morning nap, to message him, and his mom was just
a few years younger and in no way should be out driving around by feel,
in the country. Amazing, it's like he was in middle school again.
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