Rood Der: 15: Rude Dare

By Douglas Christian Larsen

Rood Der: 15: Rude Dare. The boys form a three-in-one circuit to channel visionary information from Vestigial Surreality, and Phoebe bestows an unknown gift that can only be used through the Red Door. This gift comes with a curt caution, no, warning, no, threat, that they had better not cross her.

How deep are we, immersed in this world we call reality? How many turtles down do we go, in this discombobulated, mixed-metaphor, rabbit-hole world?

Their world might be based on Ayn Rand, her writings, philosophies, and her U.S. Presidency, but how dense are their numbers compressed, and for how long will their simulation even run? This little group has been provided an exit, but would anyone be rude enough to dare and leave their very own reality?

Take the Rude Dare, and Cross over, where data is data, through the Red Door. From the author of Vestigial Surreality comes the new serial novel, Rood Der.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365898822

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Rood Der: 15: Rude Dare

Rood Der: 15

Rude Dare

The Sunday SciFi-Fantasy Serial

by Douglas Christian Larsen

ISBN: 978-1-365-89882-2

© Douglas Christian Larsen 2017

The three of them stood just outside the Red Door, nervously examining the dents on the outside of the door. They had the door swung wide into the room, but they distanced themselves from the brickwork where the original chalk outline of the portal yet showed. Everything was strange today. The three of them, John Galt, Jethro Mouch, and Ronald Rand, had each come awake with the strangest feeling of surreality. They were not certain as to what had happened to them. Their memories seemed packed with strange, unsettling dreams. They knew they had to come to the Rood Der, and each in turn was surprised to discover both Crash House and Cross House deserted, and unlocked, and most shockingly, the tunnel abandoned and standing unlocked, all the hidden features popped wide open. A girl scout could walk up to the door at Crash House, walk down the hall, open the basement door, stroll down into the tunnel, and walk right across to Cross House, and skip merrily into another world.

We know that Hank, Frederic, and Frances are all on the other side, said John Galt, more to himself than to the other two. He was squatting down and pressing his fingers into the indentations in the steel security door. And we cannot reach Joss Chen or Rodney.

And Barney, said Ronald Rand.

The other two looked at him.

"I’m just