Maybe there were so many Sci-Fi dystopias because trouble, in fiction, was interesting, Gabe noted in the e-book she was reading on her phone. No one would ever read beyond ‘happily ever after’ in a novel while you couldn’t be a scientist without being able to look back over the wreckage and rust that was the history of scientific theory and think tomorrow would be better. Maybe they could learn a little from each other?—the way the alien in The Day the Earth Stood Still forced Earthlings to think outside the box and come up with a way to relate to one another other than shooting. Who knew how hard that could be?

 

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Grapefruit @inhisbag·20m

#Boy Scout sits on camp toilet at night, Bear bites ass.

 

askY @pronouced WHY·19m

Replying : How could a bear get inna toilet?

 

VeganGirl @donfkwme·19m

That happened to me! Only it was an iguana.

 

Poison Ivy @wildflower·18m

Does anyone who camps know what’s happening to the  #honeybees?

 

Mom @RyansMom·13h

Ryan responded well to the transfusion. But still unusual bleeding. Abt to have more tests. #PrayForRyan.

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Gabe looked up from her phone—Klaatu barada nikto—as her train approached the Medical Center station. To her surprise, everyone around her was taking off their clothes. The mailman, a woman in an ugly holiday sweater…. The guy who’d been wearing a nurse’s uniform, one hand on the overhead rail, his lunch bag in the other, was now in the exact same pose only standing there in polka-dot boxer shorts, his nurse’s scrubs draped over an arm. At the platform, the doors to the crowded subway car opened and everyone poured out, exactly as people did at every stop, only without the suits, uniforms, or jeans they’d been wearing moments ago, heading to the exists as though they were all just humans instead of X-ray technicians or mail carriers or nurses or patients….