Snow fell all day while a baby was dying. I cannot remember if it was a boy or a girl, so imagine a girl. This was years ago now. The baby had pneumonia. A few weeks into a tenuous life, her lungs ...

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From a list of frequently asked questions on the website for After the Rapture Pet Care. Who are these Pet Caretakers and how do I know they’ll take good care of my pets? Most Pet Caretakers fit this ...

From a risk assessment conducted by the artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic for its Claude Opus 4 model. On our evaluations, the model engages in strategic deception more than any other ...

Just consider, at the end of this short novel, how the bodies have fallen. David, our narrator, is passing what he calls the worst night of his life, standing vigil in an empty rented house in the ...

I am sitting on a cream leather couch in this war-torn chamber painted a color called Hague Blue. It is my living room. This is my sofa. I painted the room, which is also a footpath connecting the two ...

macneil: Good evening. The Roman procurator in Jerusalem is trying to decide whether a man regarded by many as a saint should be put to death. Pontius Pilate is being urged by civil libertarians to ...

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From an interview with André Breton, conducted in 1954 by Jean Carteret and Roger Knabe for L’Astrologie Moderne, that appears in Cavalier Perspective, which was published in August by City Lights ...