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Elegy for Rodger Fox
I found out that he died while attending Question Time today. I knew him a bit: we were neighbours for the last several years while I was...
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Amanda Riddell
May 29, 20241 min read
a brief invasion of Parliament
They bottlenecked at the gate, Having come straight from their lunch break To put the brakes on a controversial Bill. They carried some...
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Amanda Riddell
May 8, 20241 min read


Pushing The Boulder
An unassuming patio. Two guys in deck chairs, beers in hand, munching on sliced bread. Hal, laid-back but smartly dressed; Charlie, a...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 19, 20244 min read


Programmed for Pleasure
The year is 2195, not long after Fred's death. Turns out that immortality is really boring. Sexbots were all the rage. Real people were...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 16, 20243 min read


Revenge of the Veggies
Did you know that genetics was discovered by some monk breeding peas? Well, it was. In this dimension, the Renaissance never happened....
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 16, 20244 min read
A rhyming fancy
Life grows colder. The world's getting older; The angel on my shoulder Is getting bolder, Though I told 'er I'm allergic to love. Love,...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 8, 20241 min read


The Dispatcher
Kelly had been in the bunker for three years. The previous dispatcher, Ellis, was rather laconic: she'd had to figure out most of it for...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 27, 20244 min read


Just Like Yesterday (part 5)
Now that all the sweet niceness is out of the way, let's get down to the real story. - Tina wasn't born into the crim way of life, but...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 23, 20243 min read
Another Edgar poem
The number opens with an invocation/karakia, then some kind of vocal refrain, then this: This crown rests heavy, Yet I cannot take it...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 22, 20241 min read


Weapons of War
2034 was a year of hope, a year of optimism. Neuralink was about to make a new brain-to-computer chip that would render traditional...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 11, 20244 min read
Reginald's Sonnet
My love, how deep thy beauty stirs affection; It comes not from a coat of painted gloss, But rather springs from perfect imperfection...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 8, 20241 min read
Another day, another tragedy.
In the premium capital gains grove, Where citizens who strove To prove their love For King and Country Once earned paltry wages, A...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 6, 20241 min read


Just Like Yesterday (part 4)
Early morning light reflects off glass buildings constructed during a previous neoliberal revolution - Rogernomics, as it was known in...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 28, 20244 min read
A funny memory
When Wallace Street was in full swing, we all had the idea that we should do a podcast: so Peter, Stephen, Aidin, Ethan and I gave that a...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 27, 20241 min read


Just Like Yesterday (part 3)
Early morning mist creeps through the hills of Kelburn. Jade zones out to some meditative music on her portable speakers. 'Jade, have...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 13, 20246 min read


Just Like Yesterday (part 2)
The seniors were crowding into the van. Sean and Dana were busy putting seat belts around people and loading wheelchairs with the...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 8, 20245 min read
My twin brother
is also called Stephen. And yeah, he used to dominate me. Lots of people involved in my stuff were/are into kink. That's why my script...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 7, 20241 min read
Manhattan Stardust
That's the title of one of Emanuel's books. I thought I'd mention why I've got the sound, despite having never visited New York. Well,...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 7, 20241 min read


Merging with Gaia
The world was changing. Anthropogenic climate change had moved from a fringe science espoused by privileged elites to a daily reality...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 6, 20249 min read


My transness - a timeline
I'm going to presage this with a comment: forcing trans people to divulge their story, then judging their fitness for sex reassignment...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 3, 20243 min read
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