Jen

  • Door

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    There was a sign by the door. A small blue enamelled metal plaque. One of the corners had cracked, and a crust of rust had started to flake about it. Judy stared at it, trying to imagine whoever it was that had placed that sign there, so straight and perfect. She wondered what they would…

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  • Eternal life?…

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    There’s a little symposium currently underway in Oxford entitled “Tomorrow’s People: the challenges of technologies for life extension and enhancement.” On the surface you could be fooled into believing that some band of science fiction fans are gathering to discuss some imagined future but as it turns out, the congress is being run by the

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  • Last train to Hanoi

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    Is there anything better than waiting to take a train in a new and unfamiliar land? There’s a distinct buzz about it that doesn’t come with air travel. Airplanes take us from A to B. They suck us up in one place and spit us out in another. Any sense of having moved across continents

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