A Feast of Unlikely Stories

eminds me of watching old wildlife documentaries
where a lion or maybe a python would easily
consume something their own size. It’s a shame,
you don’t see so many wildlife documentaries
these days though.
A few nights later I wake in the night to go to the
bathroom. Although I’m slightly drowsy I notice
that my new device is hovering in my room and
not at its dock. Its strikes me as slightly strange,
but maybe it’s a new feature of this device. I think
nothing of it and I’m asleep again the moment I get
back into bed. The next morning I remember my
device being off its dock in the night and I go to pull
the data on the new features onto my lens, but on
second thoughts those data files go on for ages and
there’s just too much to take in.
A week later and again I wake in the night. This
time my device isn’t just in my room it’s hovering
close enough to my bed to almost reach out and
touch. It’s so quiet though, I can’t help but wonder
if it’s always there in the night. These new devices
must need less charge time than the last generation.
Younger people were getting so dependent on their
devices, they probably like the idea that their device
is at arm’s length if they wake in the night.
The next day I ask an old friend, while we’re
connected through our lens, if he has noticed the
new generation of devices leaving their docks more,.
He says he hasn’t, though I’m not sure if he’s really
listening, I have a suspicion he might be watching
something else on his lens at the same time. Ok,
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