Bioflash: "Destiny's Fate"

“Don’t worry, be happy,” said Fate. “What will be will be.”

Destiny shook his head. “How can you say that? Luck is something you make.”

“Excuse me,” said Luck. “I was made by the divine.”

“I guess that makes me a heathen,” said Chance.

“Fortune favours the bold,” said Fortune boldly.

“You would say that,” Freewill said to Fortune. “It is the choices in life that are important.”

“Only the ones I make,” said Fate.

Destiny smiled. “And you make those choices because of me.”

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Bioflash: "Gravitational Waltz"

In her fullness the moon shines, touching water without touching, the gentle caress of a distant lover. Sunlight ripples on the ocean, solar rays reflecting off Luna—a mirror for a star.

Eternal waves slide over a shifting shoreline, tides drawn to the glowing sphere above. One circles the other in a coy dance, always reaching for what is out of reach.

The sea waits for Luna’s nightly visits. Sometimes she wears a crescent smile, or shows her wide, beaming teeth, and once a month she disappears completely. But the sea always waits. Luna gives her life.

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Bioflash: "Centrifuge"

The Great Beings lived above space and time. They saw universes the way a whale considers a grain of sand. One of these Beings became curious, much like a human scientist.

“Let’s spin a universe in a centrifuge!”

So he ground down a universe with a giant mortar and pestle and spun it at a trillion G’s. Stars settled near the top, comets further down. A dark pellet of iron and nickel—planetary cores—clumped at the bottom of the centrifuge tube.

Picking up his mortar, he cleaned out the crushed remains of the Milky Way and started again.

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Bioflash: "When Trees Fight Back"

When the trees decided to reclaim the planet, the great firs dropped cones onto human heads. Moss released spores full of bacteria. Sword ferns claimed their namesake.

But humans proved surprisingly resilient. Even falling coconuts didn’t deter them.

Flowers released hyperallergenic pollen, but could not defeat Benadryl. Angiosperms stopped producing fruit, but apples and oranges were replicated in laboratories. Finally, plants slowed photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide started suffocating the air.

Humans had only one choice. Give up their cars, factories and air conditioners.

Thus began, amidst a long and quiet verdancy, the Great Age of Green.

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