Retrospection

And behind us, at the appropriate chronological distances, lay the things we no longer believe, the junk of our personal history; in the long distance a giant overturned God like some broken statue and closer to home love and truth and despair.

Quantum Weirdness

How much weirder would the subatomic world be were it not weird?  

Human Nature

Even our flaws are not perfect.

Outline of a non-human ethic

Given that the Internet may be conscious, though not in a human sense, it may be immoral, though not in a human sense, to turn it off.

The Ontology of Events

To be followed for an hour by a solitary leaf on a windy autumn day might or might not signify something.

Politics

Looking back it was clear that the Ministry of Hindsight had been a massive waste of tax payer's money - something the Ministry itself was the first to point out.

The Existential Guarantee

Whoever you are you are you.

The Test

You can tell someone is real if they refuse to become a piece of art.

Free Will

The character saw an inconsistency in his narrative and through it escaped into the world.

Profound Truth

Many of our profound truths are neither profound nor true.

Tradition

'I'm a Solipsist just like my father.'

The Typewriter That Stretched Across The Ocean

The typewriter that stretched across the ocean wrote sentences of immigrants, filled to the brim with hope crossing over the ink blue of the badly pronounced Atlantic...

Forever writing the new future of America with the genetic code of old Europe.

The Journery

Whether the train of time is moving forward or backward it still must pass through the station of Now.

Untitled

On the window of the Universe a sign reads:

Popped out. Be back in five millenniums.

Language

The geographer wrote so many books on the forest that a small corner of the woodland had to be put aside to store them. Eventually there were only books and no forest at all.

Sleight of Hand

Philosophy: pulling the epistemological tablecloth off the table while keeping our everyday beliefs upright.

Non-Fiction

A fifth dimensional being can literally read our lives like a book; skipping to the end if it wants or reading our beginning over and over.

Gender Politics

The social dynamic between the sexes would be very different if vaginas had teeth.

Religion

Even in the most positive of light religion must be seen as an imperfection, a flaw, a great misunderstanding.

Reality

Were God real would the sun shine brighter, the air be fresher, the stars more beautiful, our lives more meaningful?

Scale

Does the God who sows super massive black holes in the cores of a billion of galaxies concern himself with the likes of us?

Space and Time

Room with a clock.

Directions

Yesterday a woman in a dress the colour of the sky asked me where the nearest psychiatric hospital was. When I finished explaining how to get there she thanked me and went in the opposite direction.

Return of the 1980s

Suddenly, quite out of the blue, the past called on the land line.

Artistic Licence

Airplane pilots should have to get permission from poets before flying through clouds.

Yesterday

Does God keep a copy of each day that has been on his hard drive?

Free Will and Determinism

Every decision you have ever made you are still making.

Theology

'God' is a plastic bag stuck in a tree.

Message in a Bottle

"Send piece of paper and an empty bottle."

Silence

When scientists invented earphones that let the wearer only hear the truth, people assumed they didn't work and threw them away. 

Sarcasm

In a parallel universe where time flows backwards people joke "I ain't getting any older."

Handle with Care

All of life's knocks and mishaps are softened by the bubblewrap of time.

The Magic Trick

When the magician pulls a rabbit from his hat the real trick is believing that the magician exists.

The Astronomer

His wife, he realised, was a lot like interstellar space: dark, cold, vast and utterly indifferent to him. 

The Heretic

I saw a man cross himself while riding a bicycle.

It was not an easy manoeuvre and is not in the Bible. 

The Human Predicament

A man sits frantically writing as his library is consumed by the flames.

The Career Adviser

I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up.
"An unsuccessful architect" he said.