A Future With Fortran is a flash fiction short story from the collection Quantum Shorts. Its quantum themes are light, the multiverse, probability and time. If your grandmother sets you up on a date so you can be happy when you get old, then you’d better listen.
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I’ve begun the final chapter of my work in progress with the working title of The Detective’s Car. I like the way it’s turning out. Once I get this chapter on paper, then it’ll be maybe a half-dozen passes with the red pen to get a clean copy. After that, prep for publication and then on to the recording.
Happy news: My “garden studio” should be moved into position by this time next week. “Garden studio” is what they’re calling sheds that you spend time in, rather than storing rakes and so on. I’ll be using it mostly as a recording studio. It’s double walled and insulated and I’ll be lining the inside with acoustic materials. I can see many months of obsessive attention to detail in my future.-) It should be easy to keep it warm enough this winter. One does not like to be recording while one is shivering.
So, some things getting completed. That’s always satisfying. Now, if only I could find out if we’re going to get a rebate for installing a heat pump. We already missed a summer of cooling while waiting, during which we had a long spell of temperatures near 40 degrees. Fortunately we have a furnace, so we won’t freeze this winter if it drags on. But with the way things are going, maybe that will enter the completion phase, too.
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Today’s reading is part five of The Juniper Tree by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about ten minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page.
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ISBN 978-0-9919532-0-2
