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"Or have you perhaps decided to part company with them?" He sat back, intrigued by this new speculation. "The wedding night was more of a trial than you anticipated?" he inquired. "I must confess, I was somewhat put out to hear that you preferred the alternative of bedding one of those hairy, half-naked savages to furt...
And she got up and put her coat on. "But I got to feed that freakin' family of mine." The next day the sun came out. It shone brightly as Cindy walked across the driveway to the car with Tom, who had taken the morning off to go with her for her last treatment, and she noticed the sun but almost nothing else, and she di...
The thought that tomorrow night Margot won't be in this room - it makes me so sad I can hardly bear it. I hate change more than almost anything. In the dark next to me Margot asks, "Lara Jean ... do you think you've ever been in love before? Real love?" She catches me off guard; I don't have an answer ready for her. I'...
The Dangers of Psychedelic Use it would be great if we could say psychedelics are 100% safe trust me if this were the case I would be the first one to tell you but even drinking water can be dangerous in large quantities no I'm not comparing psychedelics to water I'm simply pointing out that even the most simple compou...
Kathryn found Mattie sitting on the cement wall of the low foundation, breathing hard, the way she did after a field hockey game. She looked up at her mother. "I'm sorry, Mom." Kathryn gazed out at the view. That, at least, was still the same. Behind them, to the east, was the Atlantic. If they were to walk farther up ...
Although the phenomenon of self-organization always involves the generation and maintenance of a global (or high-level) pattern or correlation that constrains the (low-level) dynamics of the components of the system, in standard dissipative structures this occurs only provided that the system is put under the appropria...
AI Weekly Update #11 - November 4th, 2019 this a I weekly update from Henry AI Labs this has been a really exciting week in AI and will cover things like deep Minds alpha star paper published in Nature Microsoft's pipe dream distributed deep learning training framework and then we'll cover some newly released tutorials...
GHOSTING: What To Do When A Guy GHOSTS YOU: How To Call Him Out | Shallon Lester welcome back showers today I want to talk about something that almost all of us girls have experienced or we haven't ooh buckle up ladies cuz it's coming getting ghosted now the definition of ghosting to me is when you're seeing a guy eith...
Drinking from the Firehose with Howard Bloom So I'm here tonight talking to Howard bloom Who's a fascinating person and an an author of many books and a polymath of sorts and we've known each other by? Electronic communication for quite a long time, it's it's something exceeding a decade but we've never met either in p...
Hannah Arendt - Thought & Moral Propositions (1970) to talk about thinking it seems to me so presumptuous that I feel I owe you a justification some of you may remember that reporting the trial of Iceman in Jerusalem I spoke of the banality of evil and meant with this no Theory or doctrine that something quite factual ...
STOP Chasing A Specific Person & Instead Do This! - The most toxic belief when it comes to relationships or even friendships, by the way, any kind of human connection, is this whole mindset of, "You will complete me." We see it in the movies, right? It's all beautiful. It's like someone who's like broken inside and jus...
I have no idea how these people can work on me, can read the small computer printouts, can drive this thing while they communicate about me through headsets, how they can do any of it with the chopper chopping around. The helicopter hits an air pocket and by all rights it should make me queasy. But I don't feel anythin...
His hapsichord served as a rendezvous, and I passed with him at it all the moments I had to spare, in singing Italian airs, and barcaoles; sometimes without intermission, from morning till night, or rather from night until morning; and when I was not to be found at Madam Dupin's, everybody concluded I was with Grimm at...
"And he better get out of here, before Dad realizes he's not on the couch." I scrambled into action, pushing Kellan out of the blankets. He squirmed and fought me, obviously wanting to stay where he was. "Kiera, relax." Shaking my head, I pushed him harder. "No, Anna's right, he's gonna kill you if you're up here." Twi...
Then, when you took your first driving lesson, you became consciously unskilled as you realized just how much you had to learn (‘Wait! You’re telling me I have to parallel park?!’). It’s in that receptiveness to new experience that effortful learning kicks in. Once that happens, you can then become consciously skilled ...
As she sprinkled fish food into the water she said: “You belong to Nature’s living creatures, you can absorb nourishment, you can grow and reproduce yourselves. More specifically, you belong to the animal kingdom. So you can move around and look out at the world. To be precise, you are fish, and you breathe through you...
"I just wondered..." she said slowly, staring at the lemonade bottle, tracing its lip with her littlest finger. "If you could warn me beforehand the next time you decide to ignore me for my own good? Just so I'm prepared." She wanted a warning? Then being ignored by me must be a bad thing... I smiled. "That sounds fair...
'Christmas trees,' said Dexter. 'Disinfectant,' said Emma. Music played from speakers concealed in the plastic vines, Madonna's 'Get into the Groove' performed on the zither. They ate stale bread rolls, burnt lamb, salad soused in acetic acid, all of which tasted just fine. After a while even the wine became delicious,...
And so the lesson is that a weight in the final layer will learn slowly if the output neuron is either low activation (\(\approx 0\)) or high activation (\(\approx 1\)). In this case it's common to say the output neuron has _saturated_ and, as a result, the weight has stopped learning (or is learning slowly). Similar r...
The Importance of a Breakdown one of the great problems of human beings is that we're far too good at keeping going where experts are surrendering to the demands of the external world living up to what's expected of us and getting on with the priorities as others around us to find them we keep showing up and being an e...
"You're here asking for a job?" "King, I--" "You don't get to leave and then show up almost a year later and call me King. Call me 'sir' or don't call me anything." He saw her clench her jaw tight. "Yes, sir," she said, and he heard her struggle to say the words. "You have no idea how angry at you I am," Kingsley said,...
We begin by considering the contrast between conscious contents and conscious global states. We then review the changes in conscious global state associated with psychedelic drug use, focusing on the effects of two serotonergic hallucinogens psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide. Limiting our review to findings obt...
Needed the overtime, I guess, because she was really happy about it." I lowered my gaze. "I hope that didn't cost you a lot." "It didn't." That couldn't be entirely true. In-home nurses had to charge a pretty penny, but I was pleased that he stayed. Really pleased. "By the way," he drawled. "You snore." My eyes flew to...
He was messing with his lip ring like he did when he was nervous and I realized if I didn't say anything there was a good chance we would spend the rest of the afternoon watching each other warily. "You didn't have to come. I'm fine just a little banged up." His big hands tightened on the end of the bed and I watched a...
Frankfurt/Paris/Lancaster/New Brunswick: Ontos Verlag. Csibra, G. (2007). Action mirroring and action understanding. In P. Haggard, Y. Rossetti, & M. Kawato (Eds. ), Sensor motor foundations of higher cognition. Attention and performance XXII. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fogassi, L., Ferrari, P. F., Gesierich, B.,...
Ruby wasn't his problem--that was what Zoe and Jane got for being distracted and loose. Ruby had slept in their bed, in between them, until she was three. That's what you got. So many people were wishy-washy with their kids, softer than butter, and all it did was ensure that you were going to have bigger problems down ...
I shut my laptop and set it on the nightstand, then slither in next to Jonah. He lifts his arm without prompting, allowing me a spot to rest my head against his broad chest. I relay the details of Delyla's letter. "So, you're telling me you snooped through a highly private man's personal mail?" "It was right there." "T...
AutoGPT: This Is ChatGPT Supercharged! Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér. Today we are going to see how ChatGPT just got supercharged. Normally, this is OpenAI’s chat assistant, where we get a little text box, enter our questions as a text prompt, and it shall answer. However...
3 Habits That Make You Look Cool And Confident Ironman has some of the most savage moments in the entire MCU but there is actually a consistent pattern to these moments that makes them so satisfying to watch and so useful if you apply the lessons in your life so in this video we were going to be breaking down iron man'...
Like the shift of epoch called the apocalypse and anticipated by religious hysterics, DMT seems to illuminate the regions beyond death. And what is the dimension beyond life as illuminated by DMT? If we can trust our own perceptions, then it is a place in which thrives an ecology of souls whose stuff of being is more s...
I was so surprised, all I could do was nod. Kiera looked shocked too. Out of all the possible events that could have gone down tonight, Denny getting called away to work wasn't one either of us had anticipated. Denny stood, then leaned down to Kiera. "Will you think about what I asked?" Kiera mumbled okay, and I instan...
"So, 'was on account of the Reverend's bein' a great scholar that Mrs. Abernathy had written him, whilst he was still in Edinburgh, to ask him questions. And now that he's come here, he had it in mind to go and see her. Though after all Myra Dalrymple and the Reverend Davis telt him, I should be surprised he'd set foot...
The Plane of Matter (B) comprises certain higher and more subtle forms of Matter of the existence of which modern science is but now recognizing, the phenomena of Radiant Matter, in its phases of radium, etc., belonging to the lower sub-division of this Minor Plane. The Plane of Matter (C) comprises forms of the most s...
How a Polygamist Used Biofuel to Steal $500 Million A Utah polygamist family the focus of a federal raid today. This is the work of the Lord. Utah's Kingston clan or The Order, it's also called that, a breakaway Mormon group. The Order isn't really well-known if you're not a part of it or if you're not in law enforceme...
First STEP to changing your LIFE! | Stephanie Lyn Coaching Hey you guys welcome back to he'll survive and thrive I'm so glad that you guys are here this weekend I want to just briefly kind of talk about Investing in yourself. I talk about this all the time either within my videos on the podcast It is absolutely essenti...
In particular, this is the first known report to use aluminum hydride, generated in situ from lithium aluminum hydride, to reduce the intermediate 2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-N, N-dimethyl-2-oxoacetamide to DMT. A quench protocol was developed to produce a good yield of exceptionally pure free base DMT upon workup, which was the...
This process is repeated after every Pralaya before the beginnings of a new Manvantara, or period of sentient individual being. "Thirteen depend on thirteen forms," refers to the thirteen periods personified by the thirteen Manus, with Swayambhuva the fourteenth (13, instead of 14, being an additional veil): those four...
My heart is racing as I realize this is the first time I've spoken out loud to Will in his classroom since I entered it a month ago. He hesitates as though he can't decide if he should acknowledge that I even have a question. He gives me a slight nod. "What if it doesn't rhyme?" I say. I'm not sure what he thought I wa...
They don't give a toss about little old me on the back of that death trap. I'll fall off, I know it. 'They scare me.' I admit. I'm such a baby. He bends down, getting nose to nose with me, his minty breath soothing me. 'Do you trust me?' 'Yes.' I answer immediately. I trust him with my life. It's my sanity I don't trus...
She henceforth added the qualities of perfect wife to those of perfect mistress. Women, like all moral inferiors, behave well only when treated with firmness, kindness and justice. They are always on the look-out to detect wavering or irritation in the master; and their one hope is to have a genuine grievance to hug. W...
Leaving Religion(Part 2) so I did a video recently where I talked about leaving Jehovah's Witnesses I covered my life from 17 to 18 but I feel like I left some stuff out so this is part two of that first I feel like I left out how much my life has improved since I left and second I left out what was so bad about being ...
From him we learned that his tribe belonged to the Masai, but lived in isolation here on the slopes of Mt. Elgon. There a letter awaited us from the governor of Uganda, requesting us to take under our protection an English lady who was on her way back to Egypt via the Sudan. The governor was aware that we were followin...
What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still," said Vronsky. "So much the worse for those who keep up the fashion. The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence." "Yes, but then how of...
I park behind Kimberly's car and take a deep breath before climbing out. The large wooden door is crested with a large V--and I'm giggling at the arrogance of such a decoration when Kimberly opens the door. She raises her eyebrow to me and follows my eyes to the door she's just opened. "We didn't put that there! I swea...
100K Subs AMA (Ask Me Anything) howdy dowdy can anyone confirm that you can see me that'd be nice excellent cool yeah hi everyone um i just i announced that there would be a ask me anything for the 100k and why is there blank green screen sorry what do you want me to do um yeah so so uh i've i thought this would be a n...
Poetry: Maya Luna you I speak for what I call the deep feminine current the deep feminine current is the place where divine kisses density right it's the sacred that's permeating this messy world of form so as you listen to this poetry I just want to invite you to drop lower in your body into belly into feet into heart...
By the end of this century, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence. We are now in the early stages of this transition. The acceleration of paradigm shift (the rate at which we change fundamental technical approaches) as well as...
And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is known before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. The Quality is the track that directs the train. What is outside the train, to either side...
# THE NEW YORK TRILOGY It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. Much later, when he was able to think about the things that happened to him, he would conclude that nothing was real except chance. But that...
AlphaStar: Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning all right let's talk about alpha star Grandmaster level and Starcraft 2 using multi-agent reinforcement learning the corresponding paper looks like this and is by oral VIN yells at al from deep mind and has been published in the journ...
ImageBERT this video explore the new image bird model from Microsoft Research image bird extends the transformer architecture to include visual tokens as well pre-training the model with Bert's bi-directional masked language modeling on the text sequence and then outputs related to the visual tokens as well as unifying...
Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI Liv welcome to the future of Life Institute podcast it's great to have you on thanks for having me again maybe you could introduce yourself to our listeners very briefly I was a professional poker player for most of my career and now I work as a kind of Communicator film...
Bringing Change in a Day to Our Future with GE's Christine Furstoss | Exponential Manufacturing good morning everyone we ready to talk about manufacturing all right as mentioned on the vice president for manufacturing and materials for General Electric and for those of you aren't familiar with GE or haven't seen GE in ...
Yet even this assembly work will become unnecessary in less than two decades, because it will be possible to prepare the giant space-ship for launching on the moon. Besides, the basic research for the rocket propulsion of tomorrow is in full swing. Future rocket motors will mainly be powered by nuclear fusion and trave...
Slipping then a pillow under me, that I might give him the fairest play, I guided officiously with my hand this furious battering ram, whose ruby head, presenting nearest the resemblance of a heart, I applied to its proper mark, which lay as finely elevated as we could wish; my hips being borne up, and my thighs at the...
The framework seeksto improve our understanding of the "hard problem" of consciousness (Chalmers, 1995/6), itsnature, structure and role. The basic assumption of this paper is that the meaning ofconsciousness cannot be conceptualized by a mechanistic, human-detached, predictive theoryfor which classical physical Newton...
And I did buy Charmin Ultra Soft. But there's so much to do every day, so many things that have to get taken care of, that it's easier when there's a routine, when you don't have to think. Even using that smidgen of extra brainpower to choose a toilet paper brand can turn things from "manageable" to "overwhelming." But...
"Look," he said, rather testify. "If you're not interested, there are plenty of other girls. But I'd rather do this with you. So would she!" "Um, how do you know this?" "She was telling me how much she likes partying with you." "Really? When?" "The other day. Come on. Help me out here. You're not being fair to me!" Did...
Our resultsshowed a significant interaction of STIMULUS TYPE and PERSPECTIVE with significantlyincreased activation in right posterior intraparietal sulcus (IPS) for 1PPDYN condition. Asthe IPS is critically involved in the computation of object-directed action preparation, wesuppose that the simple perception of potenti...
In this cross-sectional time-series study, rates of prenatal cannabis use during early pregnancy increased significantly more rapidly among patients without co-occurring substance use, which could reflect increased acceptability of cannabis and decreased perceptions of cannabis-related harms. Furthermore, increased rat...
I wanted to peek back at Cora to make sure she was still out of it, but I was scared to move, afraid I would give away all the naughty things he was doing to me. "Why is that so hush-hush? Don't you go on tour all the time?" He signed again and I almost punched him, because he removed those questing fingers entirely. I...
Why indeed should only one part of the reticular formation be related to the creation or suspension of consciousness, and why should that part always be the same, in case after case? And why, to project the mystery onto the experimental studies of the reticular formation, should the "ascending reticular activating syst...
THE TRUTH ABOUT BELLA HADID'S PLASTIC SURGERY: What To Know About Fillers & Botox | Shallon welcome back Xiaolin errs well today you guys voted and we're finally gonna get around to talking about Bella deeds face and plastic surgery in general but not just Bella Hadid and literally all these other celebrities I'm gonna...
STOP Being a Pushover - Learn How to Stand Up for YOURSELF! hey guys welcome back thanks for joining me in this video so if you clicked this button chances are you are someone who is a bit of a pushover and it's something that you probably struggle with and something that you're looking to change so in this video i wan...
"[MUFFLE MUFFLE] BAD TIME [MUFFLE]." I assume he's saying he has to go. "Okay! I'll see you tomorrow! Bye!" A click on the other end, and he's gone. I should have texted him. But I don't want to now, because I don't want to bother him. He doesn't like talking before shows. The call leaves me feeling more cold than comf...
One night after a late shift at the restaurant, I was on my way to my room when I stopped short. I heard the muffled sound of my mother crying behind her closed door. I was frozen to the spot, my heart thudding in my chest. Standing outside her door, listening to her weep, I was ready to give it all up. In that moment ...
What Does Pornography Do to Your Brain? [INTRO ♪] For better or worse, the internet brings people together from distant corners of the world, and has information on every conceivable topic. And, of course, that includes porn. There’s some debate about how much of the internet is actually pornographic content. But if yo...
The percepts will be given to the agent program in the form of a list of five symbols; for example, if there is a stench and a breeze, but no glitter, bump, or scream, the agent program will get \([Stench, Breeze, None, None, None]\). We can characterize the wumpus environment along the various dimensions given in Chap...
I keep my eyes on the wall and try not to focus on Hardin's steady gaze on me. "Okay, sure. But I'm bringing gifts, so what should it be?" Landon sighs good-naturedly. "Stubborn as always. Well, my mum likes her kitchen, and Ken would go for a paperweight \(\ldots\) or something." "A paperweight?" I snort. "That's a dr...
Or by being smashed, or subjected to solvents, or positive entropy through other means—I find the concept disturbing. But if by 'brainwashing' you mean could I be compelled to surrender our secrets, the answer is an unmodified negative." I said, "Wye, Prof means secret of Mike himself. Mike old pal, you're our secret w...
'Honey, I wish you would,' their dad said, throwing a throw pillow at her. 'Hugh Downs?' Park's mom said into the phone. The pillow fell on the floor and she picked it up. 'No? ... Okay, I'll keep thinking. Okay. Love you. Okay, bey-bye.' As soon as she hung up, the phone rang. Park sprung away from the wall. His dad g...
Edwards held his breath in an agony of waiting during what seemed a drug-ridden eternity, for the long moment of realization to end and for the mob to break into a mad, rioting stampede. When a resonant voice sounded over the gathering din, and at its sound, the noise faded, died, and became a silence. It was as though...
My Favourite Games from the 2023 AI and Games Jam September of 2023 saw our third annual game Jam run here on aiing games a week- long community-driven event where everyone is welcome to participate and create their own games naturally we expect that there is artificial intelligence of some sort involved in the game th...
I've put on the man's hat with the black ribbon again, the gold shoes, the dark lipstick, the silk dress. I've grown older. I suddenly know it. He sees it, he says, You're tired. On the sidewalk the crowd, going in all directions, slow or fast, forcing its way, mangy as stray dogs, blind as beggars, a Chinese crowd, I ...
It didn't have a name yet, but the idea was to invite famous musicians to write songs introducing kids to different aspects of government. The pilot was going to be about monarchies, and we were in talks with Elton John to compose the songs for that episode. The concept had actually come out of something Violet had sai...
Reason is a metaphorical strict father in the Society of Mind and has the moral authority as well as the responsibility to issue moral precepts. (2) What does it mean to give moral precepts to yourself? Recall that each person's mind is conceptualized as a Society of Mind. Reason and Will both reside within each of us....
We all smiled at one another. He led us through the garden then to the exit gates, pointing to what he claimed were the seven oldest pine trees in Rome. As he pressed the button to open the electric gate, an elderly gentleman standing on the sidewalk stared at us and couldn't help saying to the guard, "My family has li...
McDonald's Test Kitchen: Where Fast Food Is Born four years that's how long it took to make this this and this there are currently 145 choices all of which took anywhere from nine months to four years to go from an idea to your plate the mcgriddles was huge for me dev is mcdonald's lead food scientist and the brains be...
For example, the relation \(append(X, Y, Z)\) that is true when \(X\), \(Y\), and \(Z\) are lists, such that \(Z\) contains the elements of \(X\) followed by the elements of \(Z\), can be defined recursively by \(append(nil, L, L)\). \(append(cons(Hd, X), Y, cons(Hd, Z))\leftarrow\) \(append(X, Y, Z)\). There is nothin...
Marcel broke off to admire the tree once more, especially the higher trunks that bored their way into the earth above their heads. 'It helps wisdom grow up through the soil, in every part of the Mortal Kingdoms, and that means Elster too. That can only be a good thing. It works against the evil that blights the lives o...
Quatrain 26 - Centurie 3: dans ce qu nostramus explique que des engins pointus produiront une grande lumière nostramus jure qu'il connaît l'heure de l'époque des EAU il nous parle d'une époque difficile en Corse où une haine avec des musulmans s'intensifiera il indique que de puissantes explosions se produiront sur Ter...
Hardin doesn't have my phone number anyway, I keep reminding myself. Of course, this is Hardin we are talking about; if he wants the number, he will find a way to get it. Some of the stories Kimberly has told in the last hour seem too crazy to be true. I'm convinced that the wine has made her embellish each one just to...
"It's not your fault. Don't worry about it. It'll work out if it's supposed to." His assurances didn't make me feel better. I tried to think of a way I could help. Two guys stopped by our table. "Okay if we join you?" the taller one asked. I glanced at Cary, and then back at the guys. They looked like brothers and they...
Lacey takes the bar from me and reluctantly bites into it. She has to close her eyes to hide the orgasmic pleasure inherent in GoFast-tasting. "Oh. My. God. That tastes like hope feels." Finally, we unpack the last bag. It contains two large T-shirts, which Radar and Ben are very excited about, because it means they ca...
To illustrate this, consider a multilayer perceptron network having two layers of weights and linear output units, which performs a mapping from a set of input variables \(\{x_{i}\}\) to a set of output variables \(\{y_{k}\}\). The activations of the hidden units in the first hidden layer Figure 5.10: Plot of the sum-o...
The idea that we are digital consciousness and that even our memories may be false brings us back to Philip K. Dick’s questions about reality and what it means to be a real human versus a fake one. The closer we get to digital consciousness and AI that appears human (referred to as passing the “Turing Test”), the more ...
If there were no other things to use, this would be excellent, but there are other compounds available. This doesn't have too high a priority. (with 150 mg) Am I enjoying it? Not exactly, but I am in a good mood. There is not the light-filled energy that some other materials can provide. By six hours, pretty much basel...
"He's a good friend," I said, feeling something pinch at me at the word friend. "And nothing more?" she asked. My father shushed her. "Marjorie, it's none of our business." "I think I have every right to ask these questions. I'm her mother," she said, her posture, even on a bar stool, as perfect as always. I remembered...
The scientists concluded that „human emotion produces effects [that] defyconventional laws of physics.‟In the second, similar but unrelated experiment, a different group of scientists extractedleukocytes (white blood cells) from donors and placed them into chambers so they couldmeasure electrical changes. In this exper...
She had an eye and seemed to know, instinctively, what would hold its value and what was lovely but temporary. Sometimes she tried to press a gift on me, and I would feel pangs about declining. She really was just being nice, but Ernest had his pride, and I didn't want to risk stirring anything up. Try as I might to co...
Beautiful Fluid Simulations...In Just 40 Seconds! 🤯 Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér. Through the power of computer graphics research works, today, it is possible to simulate honey coiling, water flow with debris, or even get a neural network to look at these simulations an...
Now don’t eat it, Scout, you’re wasting it. Let it come down.” “But I want to walk in it.” “I know what, we can go walk over at Miss Maudie’s.” Jem hopped across the front yard. I followed in his tracks. When we were on the sidewalk in front of Miss Maudie’s, Mr. Avery accosted us. He had a pink face and a big stomach ...
Even though all of the phenomena of hypnosis can be duplicated in ordinary life (and I do not think they can), hypnosis can still be defined by distinct procedures, distinct susceptibilities which correlate with other experiences as well as other vestiges of the bicameral mind, and by huge differences in the ease with ...
Heart pumping, I let us into my apartment and turned on the lamp beside the couch. Shedding my jacket, I headed into the kitchen. Cam sat on the couch while I whipped us up some hot chocolate. While the water heated up, I yanked off my shoes. I brought two steaming cups back. "Thank you." He took one. "Got a question f...
He hijacked them with a kiss that swept through me, heating me up like I'd spent the entire day under the sheltering summer sun. "You," he said, lifting his head. "I want you. Badly. And I need this--need you right now." His fingers splayed across my cheeks. "But if you want to slow this down, I can do that. I will do ...
The section of the blackboarddrawing behind Wheeler’s head indicates the situation at the quantum level; quantum ‘entities’behave in a completely different and counterintuitive manner; they spread out or ‘smear out’over increasingly large areas and fade into a ghostly semi-existence of potentiality. When unobserved ‘qu...
his need a living thing biting between my thighs. In contrast, his lips are soft and brushing feather-like against the edges of mine, incredibly gentle. "I want to taste you here, right here. To take you all night. My god, you're ravishing" he whispers, drinking me in with his eyes and savoring me with his hands. My re...
I'd seen scramblers. Hundreds of them, sailing naked through the void, their arms spread wide. Some of their arms, anyway. "They were carrying—" Bates nodded. "Weapons." Her eyes flickered to some unseen distance for a moment. "First wave headed for the front end. Blister and forward lock, I think. Second wave's aft." ...
He tries to show me that he's a wine connoisseur; he talks about "bouquet," "texture," and "legs," the oily drops that fall in rivulets down the side of the glass. In truth, he's telling me that he's grown up and no longer a schoolboy; that he's learned how to behave and has risen in the world; that he knows about life...
She'd work at the cafe while she explored other possibilities and then she'd take that step out, stop hiding and embrace her future. A future without Gabe Hamilton. She shivered in the damp cold. It was a gray, overcast, dreary day perfectly suited to her mood. She hadn't slept the night before--how could she? Caroline...