Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Story re-write for Phrygianheir Zine

This is a fictional story that speculates about a
possible future. This story explores what it is like to
 be the only human on a ship in outer space.
The space ship in this story is called the Sweet Gum
 It is called Sweet Gum because its shape is similar
 to the seed pod of a tree that grows in the
American South. The Sweet Gum is a mining vessel
that is populated by x number of supplicant android
life forms. The integrity protocols of the mining
vessel's mission make allowances for one actual
humanoid life form. The one actual human on board
 assists the  android life forms in maintaining
behavioral traits conducive to the tasks at hand.
This one humanoid life form is the narrator of
our story. The title Phrygianheir is a play on words.
The play is between the word Phrygian, which is an
ancient cultural region in Turkey but also a type of
cap worn by those people. Eventually the red cap
came to signify Liberty in general when associated
with the French revolution. And now they use them
on packs of cigarettes. So in a sense the name
Phrygianheir describes one who has inherited this
tradition of social political and cultural transience,
servitude, resistance and the subject of
commodification. In the story of the clones all the
information for replicating their android DNA is kept
in a fridge on the ship. Eventually as it is the only
fridge on board, the whole crew uses it to store their
snacks. The intro to the sitcom Odd Company
opens with a shot of this fridge door being opened.
Odd Company is a televised weekly entertainment
program produced and written by and for the Clones.
The premise for the Odd Company sitcom is a
seamless blend of The Odd Couple and
Three’s Company.Female clones are not allowed
on the Sweet Gum for fear of compromising the
integrity of the collective homeostasis.  
     In the story of the clones all the
information for replicating their android DNA is kept
in a fridge on the ship. Eventually as it is the only
fridge on board, the whole crew uses it to store their
snacks. The intro to the sitcom Odd Company
opens with a shot of this fridge door being opened.
Odd Company is a televised weekly entertainment
program produced and written by and for the Clones.
The premise for the Odd Company sitcom is a
seamless blend of The Odd Couple and
Three’s Company.. Female clones are not allowed
on the Sweet Gum for fear of compromising the
integrity of the collective homeostasis.
The Chance of generating a female clone from the
original genetic information sampled from Charles, t
he only human is, slim. However the Odd Company
plot provides for this scenario to be played out.
Odd Company is the clones favorite show. One of the
favorite snacks and a rare treat is the  weekly
churning and consuming of ice cream. The flavor of
choice is rainbow. This flavor has come to be named
Sof Cell, so called for the prime content of exfoliated
skin harvested from the Sweet Gum’s ventilation
filters.

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