Future Societies

Yellowed

by Peter RobertsJuly 2, 2015

(excerpts from a business & services directory

last updated 2 April 2187 11:47:31.01523)

Susan E. Smith & Daughter

Social Contractors

Building fine families

& respected institutions

since 2087

Dave's Devirtualizers

We offer the best recent model biochassis.

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New & gently used bodies:

human & non-human

gendered & neutered

for sale or lease.

Reconnect with lovers.

Get together with family & friends.

It's even better than you remember!

Not just a nostalgia trip.

Claude-Levi Boas

applied anthropologist

(fully licensed & accredited)

120 years' experience

easing and facilitating

casual encounters

or

long term interactions

between

cultures

civilizations

or

species

"When ET calls, we know how to answer."

Black Hole Detective Agency

Have your competitors infiltrated your company

through a rift in the space-time continuum?

We can stop it.

Is your spouse cheating on you

in another dimension?

We can find out.

Need to make sure that troublesome information

no longer exists in this universe?

We can help.

(fully licensed in all areas of forensic physics)

Body Effects

tattooing, piercing, embossing

Customize your biochassis!

Get that cool retro look!

We can combine techniques!

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Open 24 Hours

About Peter Roberts

Peter Roberts grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BS at the University of Pittsburgh. He currently lives in central Ohio. Over the past thirty years or so, he has had poems and stories published in various magazines & online journals, including Asimov's, Star*Line, Nature, Astropoetica, Ars Medica, Redstone Science Fiction, Abyss & Apex, Bitter Oleander, Illumen, Poetry Salzburg Review, The South Carolina Review, Lilliput Review, Caf� Irreal, Poem, Lullaby Hearse, The Wisconsin Review, the William and Mary Review, Small Pond, New York Quarterly, & Confrontation, & in the anthologies Poetic Voices Without Borders & Futures from Nature. He has poems forthcoming in Illumen, & Crow. For a more complete list of publications, and additional personal information: www.god-and-country.info/personal.html

http://www.god-and-country.info/personal.html

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