Comment Below is probably the shortest story featured on IFSA thus far. But the story itself is anything but inadequate. It delves into a question that have puzzled computer scientists since the 1950s: how human can a computer be?

In Comment Below, the answer is 'yes', in more ways than one.

How precious is time? Our lives revolves around it. We never seem to have enough of it. And when we can see the end of it, we grief and lamented on how we could have used it better.

How precious is time? Precious enough to justify stealing it...if we only could!

What is in a name? A lot if you're a biologist. Similarly how we have nuclear families, extended families, and far flung cousins, all species are related and some are closer to each other than others. Taxonomy is a way for us to keep track on where each species belong on the tree of life, it's part of our collective family history, so to speak.

Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

It's funny how some of the things we do to stave off boredom tent to be things that stimulate or challenge our minds. Or maybe it's not a coincidence? The Sumerians who developed the first concepts that eventually became mathematics also developed the particularly compelling Royal Game of Ur, and the same can be said with Indians and chess.

Coincidence? I think not!