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    Vestigial Surreality: 15
    Vestigial Surreality: 15
    Vestigial Surreality: 15
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    Vestigial Surreality: 15

    By Douglas Christian Larsen

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    Episode 15: The Little Girl. A little girl enjoys an adventure with a very handsome man, and Wolf makes a new friend.

    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
    ISBN9781365045769
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      Vestigial Surreality - Douglas Christian Larsen

      Vestigial Surreality: 15

      Vestigial Surreality: 15

      The Little Girl

      The Sunday SciFi Fantasy Serial

      by Douglas Christian Larsen

      ISBN: 978-1-365-04576-9

      © Douglas Christian Larsen 2016

      The little girl strolls along the street, stopping before windows, cupping her hands around her eyes and leaning against the glass storefronts. Occasionally, she checks the small pink watch on her wrist, and she smiles. A woman passing her, in a bright sunny dress, all expanded skirt and tight crenellated waist, puffed sleeves and high collar, smiles at the little girl, and pauses.

      Where are your parents, Dear? the woman asks, pleasantly.

      Oh, you know, Dada is Dada, the little girl says, giggling.

      The woman smiles at her, and then tilts her head slightly, beginning to frown. She is about to say something else when the little girl skips away, trailing a white-gloved hand along the buildings, her fingers slipping in and out over the red bricks and green-blue grout. The woman follows the charming little girl, but only with her gaze, and her frown upends into a smile, as she shakes her head and continues the other way, the little girl slipping from her mind, a playful foal. The woman smiles at a very handsome man, who tips his fedora hat and grins. The woman turns to follow the man with a wistful glance, and she touches the large mound of curls at her head, wishing she had spritzed herself with Fer de Lance instead of Moonglowbefore leaving her cottage.

      The little girl skips across the sidewalk rectangles, always

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