Back in the 1970s and 1980s, mathematicians working in an area called dynamical systems made use of the ever-advancing computing power to draw computer images of the objects they were working on. What they saw blew their minds: infinitely repeating structures whose beauty and complexity is only rivalled by nature itself.

​At the heart of them lay the Mandelbrot set, which today has achieved fame even outside the field of mathematics.

What if you can get everything you ever want or need at a relatively small price of your time? I said "relatively" because each person values time differently; a child have all the time in the world, a terminally ill cancer patient have little left.

How much time do you have left? And what have you done with the ones you've spent?

Would you accept a lie if it's supposed to be for your own good? When The Sunlight Is No More tells a story of a group of Benefactors who deemed it acceptable.

But would it be acceptable anymore when you know the truth?

What would you give to live forever? There are circles in the scientific, philosophical, and social community that ask this question, and various answers are given. Some are willing to shed their mortal bodies to join some hypothetical collective intelligence, others believe in some paradise to be bought through piety, and there are also those who believe in their immortality as part of the human legacy, passed on from one generation to the next.

"Curing Day" proposes a different, and arguably much higher, price...

Mamihlapinatapei is a short story on the possible future where long extinct species were brought back. It tells a story of Marta, a Chilean of Yaghan ancestry, and fits the irony of her job in a world where extinct creatures were brought back, while minority cultures are becoming more and more endangered.

There's so much irony in this story, the ancient Greeks would appreciate it.