M.

Joined January 2024

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Bio

Half-time writer, all time joker. M. Maponi specializes in speculative fiction, and speculates on the best way to get his shit together.

Author of "Reality and Contagion" and "Consultancy Blues"

Stories (19/0)

Top Story - April 2024
Men like usTop Story - April 2024
Men like us trudge in mud under Russian fire while callow others load the missiles. [-] Men like us, those poor we hate
By M.13 days ago in Poets
The Burning Bush
For Seye Kanes, I tell you A bitter cup is brewed. [-] And yet he stays rebellious For those who never could? [-]
By M.22 days ago in Poets
't was the Thread: a tribute
It was 'round 2020 when I started writing about my grandfather. Cats, it is said, can feel when their death is coming. I was like a cat in this regard; only I didn't perceive my end, just someone else. My muse would sit at the table and suggest me that it was the time to write about grandpa.
By M.25 days ago in Families
Top Story - March 2024
unspirited awayTop Story - March 2024
On the top of the mountain you promised there was silence, the crickets wouldn't dare [-] ten thousands steps ten thousands gates
By M.about a month ago in Poets
Generative Envy
I was given word at the beginning of it and I prompted, desperately. [-] Seeking the right shard of truth the right condensed
By M.2 months ago in Poets
Terms and Conditions
We agreed to the terms skipping the conditions or we liked the conditions ignoring the terms We were conditioned
By M.2 months ago in Poets
Upgrade Notes from the Atlanta Copbot
v1.0.0 Serve & Protect ## Changelog since v0.9.0 ### Features Automatic synchronization with APD's database. Connector to support generic criminal database [#102] Overhauled monitoring of the bot statistics, e.g. health status, ammo consumption, and self-management routines [#99] New software framework for handling I/O and supporting modular components, fully supporting the current model's peripherals. Capabilities to interface with newer and updated base models.[#65] New and improved danger heuristic Memory optimization to faster identify known faces [[#12](url)] . To be integrated with APD's mugshot data.
By M.2 months ago in Futurism
Violet Skies and White Fields
Violet skies and white fields. We cross a parking lot covered by a thick blanket of snow. Everything seems otherworldly – the concrete jungle of the city’s outskirts hidden beneath a white coating. Concrete jungle is a term I use with a poetic license, here. This is not NY. Not even remotely that important. It is a town, too mediocre to be called shitty.
By M.2 months ago in Confessions
The fates run a bar
The three fates run a bar in Bologna's central station, on the underground floor in between the 16th and the 17th track. Clotho, with round, South American face, a band-aid over her right eyebrow, Lachesis blonde and motherly, Atropos skinny as a thread, looking like an escapee high school girl that regularly skips lunch and P.E. class.
By M.3 months ago in Fiction
The stage IV muse
She is much better now. Still wearing my old clothes, but it almost looks intentional now, and dare we say - vintage? There's color on her cheeks and a little meat on her bones and she no longer looks like someone left out in the cold during long winter nights.
By M.3 months ago in Fiction
Quake
It oughtta be a easy, easy plan. The Weasel had called it "victimless thing". Except that the girl they 'napped was crying, always crying, bound to a bed in a decrepit house in Rio, near Rieti, Italy. Pino was starting to get gut-wrenched every time he looked at her.
By M.3 months ago in Fiction
When the wind comes
When the wind comes And gently whispers The walls of your house They listen. As the rain pit-patters
By M.3 months ago in Poets

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The Burning Bush

't was the Thread: a tribute

unspirited awayTop Story - March 2024

Generative Envy

Terms and Conditions

Upgrade Notes from the Atlanta Copbot

Violet Skies and White Fields

The fates run a bar

The stage IV muse

Quake

When the wind comes

Stories (19/0)

Men like usTop Story - April 2024