Gray Bando

Meditating By a Burger

The beef patty's juices perfectly flowed into the buns, melted cheese fused into the grilled meat, and the lettuce complemented the heavier parts of the burger. A heavenly aroma wafted from it, enticing Near like sweet nectar—but she kept her hands tightly grasped together. It was a form of torture to her, something utterly inhumane for someone to do—which is precisely why she must do it. Faint, electric crackles emitted from the steel-and-plastic rectangle sitting next to her meal. Looking at the message brought her just close enough to the burger that she could smell it. Agony—it was j...

Five-Armed Artificial Intelligence Madman

His vision was used to shimmering data after staring at it for so long; it seemed to crawl across his sight, painting his eyelid with graffiti about something that mattered to absolutely nobody, even to the person who drew it. It was worthless—but it was informative. Information had to belong to him, in the end. He checked his digital form, tenderly feeling the thin blue data: one, two, three, four, five—his sixth arm still would not manifest. At least he could still imagine it connected to that one stump, grafted onto his body—that errant, unfinished limb was colored more like dying gra...

An Introduction to Ancient Greece

A young man clutches a sword tight as he travels through an underground maze made out of stone, choking dust in the air and cobwebs as large as tapestries decorating the torch-lit walls; stalking its prey, a creature with the form of a person and the head of a bull snorts hot air from its nostrils, its hefty steel blade scraping against the tiled ground with each hungering step of its hooves; soaring across the sky with wings glued together by wax, a boy and his father feel the wind caress their skin as they are finally free of their prison–yet their joy is stopped only seconds later as the...

Shifting Precipitation in North America

Though that is just getting into the Arctic, an area so foreign that it might as well be another planet to some, something that is significantly more close to home is precipitation—more specifically, how the amount of it is changing in the world. The amount of precipitation in the southern part of North America is decreasing, leading to hotter areas getting hotter; precipitation around northern parts of the continent is increasing, leading to colder areas getting colder. There is an extreme which happens due to the season, an extreme in which precipitation is increasing or decreasing by ...

Iambic Pentameter in Middle English Works

Rhymes are not the sole part of how Middle English texts such as The Canterbury Tales were structured; there was also great importance placed upon meter, and this work of Chaucer’s has many great examples of how understanding the specific kind of meter it uses assists in pronouncing it. The Tales are written in iambic pentameter, and so each line is 5 iambic feet of an unstressed syllable then a stressed one; while this may seem unimportant, as it “flows just right” for the majority of lines found in the work, there are some which require stepping back and analyzing to properly determine ho...

A customer · 5.0 · December 2022

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A customer · 5.0 · June 2022

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