Patrick Antonio
The Sun is the Same
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it's sinking Racing around...
Patrick Antonio
The Newer Testament
In the beginning there were no words, And then we made words, And with these words we began writing, And we wrote both stories and...
Patrick Antonio
POV - from the Surface of an Electron
If you could shrink small enough to live inside of one H₂O molecule, Just you and 3 atoms all contained inside the same single water...
Patrick Antonio
The Con's Piracy of Reality
Conspiracy theory type thinking arrests all clear thinking and reason, Knee-jerk conspiracy theory type thinking is the con’s piracy of...
Patrick Antonio
Once O'clock's Tavern
History doesn't repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes. Charles Altree feels quite foggy and has no idea where he is or how he got here....
Patrick Antonio
Nicene Creed (scientific translation)
We believe in one Universe, the Atoms, they’re all mighty, the makeup of matter and Earth, and of all that is, seen and...
Patrick Antonio
Jennifer's New Implants
Inside the lobby of the Seminole County DMV, the directory is a hologram scale model of the building. On it, Jennifer finds the...
Patrick Antonio
Eternal Light (relatively speaking)
Our big bright sun is located eight light-minutes away, It hides from us at the end of each day. Each morning returning, Orange and...
Patrick Antonio
An Okay Google Christmas
Eight-year-old Sally is sitting by the tree on Christmas morning by her mountain of just-opened presents. Her parents now in the...
Patrick Antonio
Codex
On rare occasions I was lucky enough to find a book back in the 300′s. This said, reading a book in the year 300 was a pain in the ass. ...
Patrick Antonio
Blinking Cursor
Bob is frustrated. He is sitting at his writing desk, and staring at the blinking cursor on his blank Word Document. To this day he has...
Patrick Antonio
Creative Destruction
Because I won this contest on Thanksgiving Day 2016, freeditorial.com owns the digital rights to this story for 10 years (until...
Patrick Antonio
Same-ish on all Orders of Magnitude
Microscopes and telescopes show you strikingly similar patterns. Microscopes show you atoms, each composed of a nucleus being orbited by...
Patrick Antonio
Source Code
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson— All plants and animals are driven by instincts, including...