Alice in Cyberland — …continued from yesterday ONCE SHE ESCAPED the black room, Alice found Wonderland surprisingly realistic. When she petted the tabby cat named Cheshire, the fur felt like silk between her virtual fingers, and when it disappeared (and then bit her hand) the blood dripped down her wrist. She removed her shoes…

Alice in Cyberland — ALICE LIDDELL SLAMMED her bedroom door and jacked her virtual headset into the computer. She launched the new online game “Wonderland” despite her mother’s warning that free online games could run up massive hidden fees. Or, to be honest, because of her mother’s warning. The old bat deserved a huge…

Religion Week — THE HOMELESS MAN SAT at the counter of Maisie May’s Southern Style Diner, counting his change as he scanned the items on the menu. The waitress approached with her coffeepot and asked if he wanted her to fill a cup. He pushed the change toward her and asked if that…

Religion Week — CELIA THOMPSON SLIPPED into the pew next to her mother and took half of the woman’s hymnal to join the congregation in “I Need Thee Every Hour.” She hated being late, and she’d already missed breakfast with her parents, but she owed her thesis advisor a new chapter on Monday…

Religion Week — REVEREND HASKELL LOVED TO PREACH about fiscal responsibility. He thought the topic so important that he delivered a sermon on the topic once a month. The reason America was going to hell, he’d preach, was because Americans had lost their sense of fiscal responsibility. The reason the national debt was…

Religion Week — SISTER SUE TAUGHT the fifth graders at Mother of Mercy Catholic School in downtown Agua Trasera, the same school where she’d taught fifth graders since 1970. The other sisters have encouraged her to retire since 2000, tell her she’s earned retirement, but she’s on a mission from the Lord. She…

Huckabee Sanders changes GOP focus to “unconceived” — Thanks to SCOTUS, GOP gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders promised on Sunday that “a kid in the womb will be as safe as they are in a classroom.” Sanders, who most Americans believed Drumpf had ingested after she disappeared from her job at the White House, promised to shelter fetuses…