Balphozeen: The New Commuters

11/19/1998 Geoff Ashbrook

Wandering if your starving soup line waiting help staff is going to rise up and overthrow your kingdom? Try new Balphozeen tablets. Balphozeen links you in with our finest new strategically placed surveillance cameras. Find yourself closer to the action with multidirectional fifteen hundred times audio amplification. Hear their shoelaces blowing in the wind. This will also give you access to the use of your enemy's minds so long as they are listening to enjoyable music and drinking water. Decide to influence them in whatever way you choose. But the more you distract them, the more they will build up a tolerance to stimulus. The jails stay empty and the streets stay clean. The rays of lighting get piped into the house through tubes lined with a reflective coating. The television flips off as the toast pops up out of the T-toaster-V. The one piece is burned and sending up a grey ribbon, while the other has still melting freezer burn. You reach over into the other room, with your hand set to increase size with rapid movements, and to decrease with shaky movements. You extend your arm out the window, and twist your pinkie around in circles to initiate stretching. Your forearm moves up the wall and turns into the bathroom window upstairs. Jeory is combing his hair in the mirror, and he reaches his hand out behind him to receive his lunch pale. Twisting his nose, the world shrinks around him contracting into a cylinder in his left hand, as it recedes it gives way to a long hall with doors. Here the world@home is like a dream, but it is the object in his hand. This way he can go to work without having to cross any distance, or spend any time. Each year our models get better, fewer spontaneous disappearances, and more compact size. It really is this affordability, convenient size, and higher safety level which allows the common workers to lead the kind of life they do. He, or she, can carry in a small bag everywhere they need to be, and for limited periods you can purchase for the family or for the individual, new: "Afternoon," or traditional: "Five Hour," or the original: "Two Day," Balphozeen cream. Which will take you anywhere you want to be. There have been a number of petitions for a unified reality, but there is debate over whether the signatures are legitimate. So far there is no product currently on the market to help someone figure out what they are going to do. This is by far the main risk for the new commuters. But then there are also the dream outbreaks. This system was originally created to block out dreams entirely, why dream when you can do(?), after all, they aren’t real. But it seems they have been leaking in past the seals, and pooling up below deck. It seems that no sooner could we plate and print the smallest quantifiable unit of time-space, that eruptions began to occur. So far as we know there is still no contact with the eastern hemisphere due to a satellite static-interference situation, but our best engineers are on the job. Saturday night, Greys Gleeson is performing at Saxpool Cathedral in Brussels from eleven a.m. to two p.m., the after dark curfew is still in effect there, I believe.

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