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    Vestigial Surreality: 14
    Vestigial Surreality: 14
    Vestigial Surreality: 14
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    Vestigial Surreality: 14

    By Douglas Christian Larsen

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    Episode 14: Transformation. Seven makes a gruesome discovery and Six says goodbye, while Jack struggles with his fate.

    From Plato's Cave to The Matrix, philosophers and scientists and dreamers have questioned the very nature of reality. Scientists today are actually running multi-million dollar experiments to discover hints on whether or not we are living in a computer simulation. To date, the program obfuscates the results, every time.

    The world may not be exactly what it seems. There is no body. Data is data.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 13, 2016
    ISBN9781365045721
    Vestigial Surreality: 14

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      Vestigial Surreality - Douglas Christian Larsen

      Vestigial Surreality: 14

      Vestigial Surreality: 14

      Transformation

      The Sunday SciFi Fantasy Serial

      by Douglas Christian Larsen

      ISBN: 978-1-365-04572-1

      © Douglas Christian Larsen 2016

      Seven, in the dark, listened intently. The deep booming knock that had brought her forth from the depths was now silent. She kept ordering herself to stop being a baby and just raise the lid; however, a terrifying thought kept the lid down. Vividly, she remembered the Martians, with their identical faces and athletic bodies, bulging eyes, eyes too large, lacking any real nose, the too sickly white skin. The thought of the Martians up there, in RL, just outside her chamber, well, it was too much. She felt overwhelmed, assaulted, powerless...until she remembered something else. Another thought, another memory.

      She had not remembered that punch, the one she delivered, cocking back her fist and letting fly right into that Martian’s face, and how the ugly man flew backward as if kicked by a mule. Seven had done that. Something unlike any previous action in her entire life. She defended herself. And she was not powerless. So, what did that mean?

      Seven was powerful.

      The chamber lid lifted, and Seven swung her legs out over the edge of the chamber bed to sit. She listened, intently, and it was completely quiet, as always, her

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