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The Dogon believe that boys and girls are born with both masculine and feminine traits. The foreskin is considered feminine, and the clitoris is considered masculine.
In other words, the hunters get to avoid female genital mutilation.
A/N: So, this is a story I wrote this afternoon on a whim, after bingeing my way through Predator and Predator 2, as well as reading about various Malian peoples. The basic premise of the story is a look at how one pre-modern culture may have tried to counter the occasional Predator hunt in...
My next interviewee is perhaps the most elusive and difficult one to find an audience with. It took two months of paperwork and background screening before I was allowed an appointment. Surprisingly, however, I am allowed to speak with him in person, rather than the phone call I was expecting...
Our walk around the White House grounds bring us to a secluded mud-pit, one that has been used by Harpanet and his family for a good seventeen years. He slinks inside and wallows around a bit, explaining that it helps to ease his arthritis. I decide to join him, feeling that it'll make the...
Threadmarks: Audio Transcript - Transmission from UN to 127th Emperor Hetto. November 18th, 2020
Initial transmission is sent to the Hetto in lunar orbit at 12:00 PM, Greenwich Time.
12:00.02 [UN Special Assembly]: "This a transmission to the fleet in lunar orbit, sent from the United Nations Special Assembly. Repeat, this is a transmission to the fleet-"
Sixteen seconds of static pass...
Moussa Traoré greets me at the door to his home in Bamako, Mali. Ushering me in, he has me sit down with him and his family at the dining room table. We hold our interview over plates of Jollof rice, boiled eggs, and steaming green mint tea.
Q: Thank you for the meal, Professor Traoré.
A: You...
Ret. General Yeager greets me at his home in Upstate New York, and sits down with me at the porch. His wife, Barbara, offers me a glass of sweet tea as she comes out and sits beside her husband.
Q: Thank you very much for agreeing to this interview, sir. I know this is far from your first.
A...
After a while, Wallafess decides to go on a walk around the Race Free Zone as we continue the interview. A few of the troopmales give us a nod as we pass by some of the prefab structures that have been their homes for the last twenty years. Much like their culture, the troopmales are neat and...
The Beijing Psychiatric Hospital is a state-of-the art facility, meant to put patients at comfort during their stays here. Wáng Yè Wèn certainly looks comfortable as I enter his room. The surroundings are surprisingly furnished with calligraphy and paintings of cities that he's made. Numerous...
Despite being middle-aged by his people's standards, Harpanet is a rather lively fi'; he decides to give his interview while going on a stroll around the White House. We are flanked by Secret Service agents, one of whom is also a fi'.
Q: Thank you for taking some time out of your schedule to...
Ret. General Petrikov's home in Odessa has a lovely view of the Black Sea from the second-floor patio; it is there that he sits down with me to hold the interview. Between us is an old samovar that his grandfather had purchased nearly a hundred years ago, and he pours some tea as we talk.
Q...
The Race Free Zone is eerily reminiscent of the old Japanese internment camps from the 1940's, even if the similarities are superficial. The area, located on several hundred acres of previously unused land near the Great Salt Lake, is surrounded by fences capped with barbed wire, and there are...
The sun is low on the sky when I finally pull into the Mauna Kea Surveillance Observatory's parking lot. Formerly an independent facility, it is now under the jurisdiction of the federal government, as to scan the skies for potential threats.
Dr. Jennifer Paulson is an older woman, with streaks...
The battle was fierce
and bathed the land in great fire.
The Great Ikusagami
and the mighty sea dragon
that reigned over all
of the great and terrible
beasts of the wide world
were the last to stand before
the Golden Serpent.
All the others had fallen,
but the might of both
Ikusagami...
Leviathan
לִוְיָתָן
Kaiju.
That word has become a part of everyday life ever since that fateful day in 1954, when we were humbled by the wrath of a monstrosity created by our own destructive arrogance. Though it was slain by the sacrifice of one of our century's greatest minds, it proved to be...
Earlier
He knew he was making progress when he forgot to eat.
The soft chime of an alarm pulled him out of his work, and he wearily looked up from the workshop table. Dragon's avatar was splayed on the computer monitor, a concerned look on her face.
"Yes, yes, I know," he muttered softly...
I went for where they were keeping the girls first.
They were being kept in a warehouse rather far away from where Lung was currently residing; they were stuffed into makeshift cells like sardines in a can. Altogether, there were twenty-three of them, most of them around my age. It appeared...
It was a blessing from the gods that the second day of school fell on a Friday. Without Emma to hang out with, lunch was the only thing I could look forward to; I already knew the class subject matter like the back of my hand, and most of the other students didn't want to socialize with me...
Like the other high-schools, Arcadia had lunch for an hour. The students loved it; they had time to go home and eat with their family, or to read and study after quickly finishing their meals. For someone who didn't need to eat, however, and who could complete homework in speeds that would...
The meeting room was silent when Weld walked inside. It was to be expected, considering that it was eleven at night; most of the other capes were already back home or finishing up their patrol shifts. The only ones at the table were Armsmaster, Clockblocker, and Director Piggot.
Silently, he...