The new cordless phone I bought has a handset with a digital display. You can give the handset a name, which will show on the display. I named it “Commlock 9.”

Because there will always be a Moonbase Alpha.

Maybe I’ll come home in the spring.

Aubergine: a dark shade of purple, such as found on the skin of eggplants.

This is too pretty a word to be associated with eggplants. I prefer to imagine it’s the kind of purple one finds inside the deepest recesses of seashells.

Aubergine.

Forget jetpacks. I expected (and wanted) monorails.