Contract Expired

By David Horn

Sex and violence - what more can a mover want?

Possibly, surviving it all.

"Dystopian Literature at it's worst" (Random Gazette)
"I didn't read it." (George W. Briar)
"Seriously, don't you have something better to do with your time?" (Your Mother)

A dystopian journey into a bleak universe, not so far away from our own as we might hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Horn
• Release date: Jul 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463498835

David Horn

Actual Bio: D. Horn, Artist, Poet and Savant, uses the medium of self-publishing to heuristically test the boundaries of the semiotically acceptable and marketable. Originally from Austria, Europe. The work "Smash the Words 2013" consists of three distinctive short stories and a novelette (medium variable & entirely up to the recipient). It is a work in progress, and the final tally & interpretation can realistically only be made after there is no semblance of human culture left in the universe, so that's up to others then. In the meantime, send some credits or BTC or just kudos or love my way, every bit counts. FNORD, e.a. Current comment on results: FNORD. Out now: "Contract Expired", a not so short story. A dystopian journey into a bleak universe, not so far away from our own as we might hope.

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Contract Expired

A Science-Fiction Short Story

by David Horn

Copyright 2018 David Horn All Rights Reserved

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Smashwords Edition June 2018

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Table of Contents

Copyright & Disclaimer

Table of Contents

Prologue: Propaganda

Chapter One: Contract Acquisition

Chapter Two: The Harbor

Chapter Three: Propaganda Intermezzo

Chapter Four: Interception

Chapter Five: Olympia

Chapter Six: Propaganda Intermezzo

Chapter Seven: The Aristo

About the Author

Contract Expired

A not-so short story

Prologue : Propaganda

Obey the prime objective!

Live!

What does living mean to you? Everything. Eat. Sleep. Procreate. That might be the simplest formula available for sentient species (and some species are also able to avoid sleep altogether). It's also equivalent to the life some of us lead.

The worker-drones in the great factory-cities of southeast Asia, apart from the occasional uprising and, of course, any entertainment a slave's wage can buy, suffer such a burden. Still they live! To enjoy the pleasure of sniffing a bag of glue, or fucking a cheap street whore and then trying to run. To at least feel the pain of a nightly mugging than feel nothing at all.

There is no afterlife. In case it's news to you, the easter bunny reportedly isn't real either. And a couple of thousand years ago, Mary had the bright idea of calling it a virgin birth - most creative excuse for fucking around with demigods that I've ever heard. No, we only have one life. This one. And why should we obey the ones that are