Category: Story
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Outside
It had taken a while – it always does – but the final safety checks were complete. Ren felt a rush of tiny beads brush across the edges of his feet, then over, and then up around his ankles, as his LIFE machine slowly filled with the microbead ether. He took a deep breath from…
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Autonomy
Why do I even bother? No, stop that. What I am doing is important. Sure, I may be a cog in a machine, but I am a VITAL cog. And it is a GREAT machine! Okay, maybe not a VITAL cog. But REALLY HELPFUL certainly! Others could do what I do, but it takes a…
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EXIT
A long white hallway stretched out behind them, peppered with large steel doors and lit in a lurid glow by the evenly-spaced incandescent bulbs in the ceiling. Some of these doors had not been opened in a long time. This was a good thing, thought Adam Mikkelsen. If ‘reason’ and ‘caution’ were virtues worth…
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The OSVTC
“I don’t believe it,” he rumbled, while putting his cigarette out in the dusty ashtray. The well-worn disposal mirrored the overall cleanliness of the bar, which had half-rusted iron shelving and enough of a lingering smell to make you think that the patrons were going for a ‘before-air-freshener-was-invented’ kind of rustic vibe. “I…
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