A Rondo Patungan story from Romeo Esparrago. PART 1 OF 2 : THE INVITATION. A Postcard at Lunch, Round Rock 2026 Rondo Patungan was sixty-two and three spoonfuls into his bowl of tinola chicken stew that had a squirt of patis and a squeeze of lemon at Lil Mama’s in Round Rock, Texas, when he … Continue reading Story : Part 1 “A Kiss Before the Feast”
The Universe Is Flatter Than You Think. The Cosmos, Now in 2D. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is a Chicago-born theoretical physicist of Cuban and Polish descent. As a teenager she taught herself to build and fly a plane, which makes most of our teenage hobbies look like a rounding error. She went on to finish first … Continue reading News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection?
By Romeo Esparrago. The Soviet Union detonates their first atomic test on August 29, 1949. Radioactive particles collected over the skies of Alaska confirm this. President Truman announces this to the world on September 23, 1949. Massachusetts, 1953. John V. “Jack” Herrentown had drawn an aircraft on the blackboard. Beneath it he had drawn a … Continue reading Story : Detection
A Rondo Patungan story from Romeo Esparrago Central Texas, January 2026 was sixteen days old when Emma brought her husband’s hat to my kitchen table in Austin while I was eating my bowl of sinigang stew & rice from Lil Mama’s in Round Rock. She put it beside my kalamansi juice and kept her hands … Continue reading Story : No Road Outta Taylor
A crown of sonnets from Romeo Esparrago I. Launch We were the first to rise. None came to find us. July of nineteen forty-six: the sand, a captured rocket with the war behind us, a can of fruit, a seal, a giant's hand. The fire bore us up beyond the blue to where the sky gives out, and then was done; the … Continue reading Poem : Untouched by Radiation
from Romeo Esparrago I. Residuals Mara Castellanos found the problem the way most problems are found: by refusing to accept a number that was merely good enough. It was 2031, five years afer the James Webb Space Telescope paper, and the paper was still the most-cited thing ever written about Neptune's inner moons. Everyone knew … Continue reading Story : The Clays of Proteus
Scientist finds evidence of 'alien DNA' in humans By Rob Waugh, Daily Mail, 6-October https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15091825/evidence-humans-alien-dna-genetic-manipulation.html
A black hole has overstayed its welcome and forcibly kicked out of its galaxy. Leaving a mess in its wake. It’s complicated. https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/astronomy/james-webb-sees-a-supermassive-black-hole-getting-kicked-out/ar-AA1SPsz4
“Time”by RomeDome Prest Phor-Tyme was late. Not a little late. Not the sort of late that could be healed with a sincere apology, a folded excuse, or a hurried message sent from a wristpad while running down a moving walkway. Prest was professionally late. He was late to cyberwork. Late to holo-appointments. Late to digiConcerts, virtual … Continue reading Time
