Reality Dispatch

When forced isolation brings an unexpected (and welcome) conclusion.

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How would a solar flare affect the earth’s satellites and power grids? Better yet, what would happen to those who lived with this disruption? Based on this - https://www.dw.com/en/can-solar-flares-harm-earths-technology/video-64663358#:~:text=If%20the%20flare%20is%20powerful,precise%20timing%20or%20accurate%20data.

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Based on Biden’s attempts to introduce constitutional amendments - see here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/29/joe-biden-reform-supreme-court-presidential-immunity-plan-announcement/

What if the theory went the other, radical way?

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This story is entirely made up and is complete fiction. There is no evidence to suggest any of this is or has occurred.

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I once stared out of the large windows overlooking the hangars and the runways of LAX, desiring nothing more than to exit the terminal and go beyond the confines of the airport. Perhaps stay there… I was twenty-one, traveling alone and impressionable. It was a mid-transit fantasy that formed the basis of this story.

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A fictional account of the bombing and sinking of the Bismarck, 27 May, 1941.

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The year is 2008 and California District Attorney Kamala Harris is prosecuting an accused murderer named Curtis Mayfield. This is a fictional account of a trial that did not take place.

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Miles Davis explains to a junior interviewer on the fictitious NPR Jazz Show the beauty of the window into the realm of the unknown. A source that allows him to play what he plays. Tapping into the window helps dictate what he says and what he thinks. The conversation begins and ends with a demonstration.

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What would a dry cleaner do if they received suspected items and were tasked with cleaning them? We all remember that scene from Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho of the indifferent Dry Cleaners. I would like to think in this instance, we all exercise a sense of civic responsibility.

Loosely based on this: https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/warrant-missy-bevers-father-in-law-dropped-off-bloody-clothing-at-dry-cleaners/

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Very loosely based on this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-10/ballarat-asylum-seeker-neil-para-completes-walk-to-sydney/102825402

A Highway Patrolman encounters a roadside walker escaping her thoughts in a long, unstoppable walk.

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