Profane Tmesis

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I write short stories and web serials. You can read them at https://profane-tmesis.info

Manny, Fran and Bernard from "Black Books", standing at an airport bar.
A screenshot of the game Zeliard showing the cutscene where Duke Garland meets Jashi'in, just before the final boss battle.
The cast of Newsradio sitting around Dave's office, in the first episode after Phil Hartman's death.
An SVG image of an otter using wifi on a plane, generated by GPT o3.
Soulmate Nemeses We may be separated by miles on the face of the earth, but very near in the space defined by cognitive similarity. This space exists. Sufficiently similar minds can be made to swap. This is what the grinning pensioner told Birkhoff after he had woken up behind bamboo bars in a body not his own. The dying pay good money to swap bodies at random. Two questions occupy him. Can you blame someone for their actions, when their mind is near identical to yours? And how long will bamboo need to burn before this failing body can kick through?