R. M. Ahmose Presents: Tales You Never Saw Coming
2010
Story One: "The Better Design"
Story Two: "Saved"
Story Three: "Psychotherapy and
Desserts"
"The Better Design"
The key players of this tale include the director of a noted science center, two schools engaged in a contest of robot design, and, oddly enough, the robots themselves. The story unfolds, as told by two TV/newspaper reporters, in a post-contest exposé. The duo conducted many thorough interviews with participants in the robot rivalry, in order to present the intimate details of thought processes held by everyone involved. Obviously, the machines were not consulted, but their behaviors, during the match, are described in a way that captures and relays an amazing development. The robots of LaBlanc and Hughe seem to evolve patterns that mimic aspects of human society.
"Saved"
Joycina Rose Luchas, born and raised in the community of Feytown, within the county of Holy Oak, was a model of what a good, church-going young girl should be. Then, she turned eighteen, went off to a prestigious college and, thereby, learned to question orthodoxy and other symbols and examples of conventional thinking. Next thing you know, she's having incisive debates with officials of her church, on the wisdom of blind faith in matters spiritual. Clearly this can lead to no good end, and it does--well, sort of, kind of, depending on how you look at it...somewhat.
"Psychotherapy and Desserts"
R.M. Ahmose completed a practicum, conducted at a mental health facility in Baltimore, Maryland, in fulfillment of a master's program in psychology there. The "field work" lasted a semester and was, for him, a gargantuan learning experience, regarding both the counseling process and human nature, in general. From circumstances and conditions at the facility, Ahmose generated a tale that blows totally out of proportion and accuracy his actual memory of events that unfolded at the center. Such is the nature of wildly creative thinking. In this story, two practicum students are in the process of molding into psychological counselors. At the start of the tale, one of them, Kaye Spritey, is abducted while in a counseling room and forced to trek across the hall to one of the center's two restrooms. You'll have to read this story to find out the meaning of "desserts" in its title. ...And, no, it's not that.