Species merging was generating problems among the parents.   ‘Icthy’ (the fishy-folk) were gene sharing with the previously lower consciousness group ‘Dollface’. The fish couldn’t resist those cute baby blues, the ageless physiology, and the absence of self-determination among the females. Fishy females were having tricks employed by the clown fish and bees. Namely, gender reversal. Female were becoming male fish! Not due to rising water temperatures but precisely because the

(Bunch Lunch Munch)   Change just one letter and the concept mutates   If two letters are altered   Bunch > Lunch > Lungh Lunph > lench Lanch Linch   Lunch > Munch > Munch Munce Mundh Monch Manch Mench   But When three letters change, oddly the words can remain Bunch >  Lunch > Lench > Lengh can remain parallel. Or, was this list just an odd fluke? A ‘bunch’ of bananas and the ‘length’ of a bunch growing down off a banana tree?   Try a second example? OK Lunch > Linch > Punch

Right. I’m warning you in advance. This is not a happy topic.   My mum is dead. When she died my daughter was visiting from Australia for Xmas and Elle (my kid) and I had gone to the UK and were staying at my friend’s apartment for free.   Worst snow storms that year. It was unclear if we’d get to fly out, but even more critical, could her plane land in Portland? I went to the airport to pick her up. Planes were not landing. There wasn’t a stockpile of de-icer in flights from

The path of least resistance.   It’s the topic of argument: water pollution, water right, water ways.   It’s the micro-molecule H2O, just three atoms but merely two elements. Organic chemists spend two weeks understanding its unusual qualities. ·        Frozen it floats ·        Liquid water compact in space due to weak Van Der Waal’s chemical bonds   How does it work? Does water form ions of OH that are bonded to another H2O atoms OR the H atoms interact with each other on t

‘Open them Close them Put them away!’   Widely applicable? A riddle?   A drawer ? Them what? Clothes? Eyes ? (-> peepers) Where can you put your eyes away? Oh, maybe contacts? Doors  of life? Put those unattainable dreams of life tucked safely away? Window ? Can’t put away a window! Presents , right? Open then works, but? Close them? Nope – blows up.   Who was the ‘stream of consciousness’ thing author? That Irish bloke…What’s his name? Escaped! A closed mind. Sinclair? No I

Racing across the expansive skies, was it sound or light that reached us first? The 'jagged white' hit our old red river gum right at the hollow where the elders had taken a coolamon from the younger tree's yielding bark. We used that tray on our wedding for berries and so, too, have all our offspring on their weddings, one by one.  So frequently has it been oiled and cleaned and cherished that our care has imparted a soft, shiny tinge to its redness.   Now the old tree is sh

Who’s a lemon? I’m a lemon. Oh. Oh. Yeah, of course you are I can see that! But, you’re not green. You sure you’re not a lime? No. I tell you I’m a lemon. Just give me some sun—I’ll be yellow yet. Sure. That’s what they all say! And you should talk. You’re not yellow either. What colour do you call that ? I’m beyond purple, it’s called ultra  violet. Pounce! The next thing you’ll say it that you’re a berry. But I am! I’m a Blue berry. Right! Aren’t Blueberries supposed to be

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