Rood Der: 02: The Grab and Snatch

By Douglas Christian Larsen

Rood Der: Episode 02: Barney is out to cut a deal all on his own, but he does not consider himself a looter. He is just a tad brighter than his fantasy-embracing knucklehead brothers of the Red Door. But still, he has this strangest sensation that someone, or something, is following him, and what is that strange, crude, childlike symbol scratched into the door in the filthy alley?

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: Jan 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365683831

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Rood Der: 02: The Grab and Snatch

Rood Der: 02

The Grab and Snatch

The Sunday SciFi-Fantasy Serial

by Douglas Christian Larsen

978-1-365-68383-1

© Douglas Christian Larsen 2017

Barney felt that weird sensation, again, and was almost certain someone was following him, that someone had been watching him all day. He felt it, but had not seen a single clue that any of this weirdness was true, just shades of Hank. Oh, he knew about weirdness, he was a believer, but as surreptitiously as he glanced over his shoulder, or watched the reflections in windows as he passed, he could not catch a single flicker of a person standing out that seemed to be watching him. Nobody suddenly turned their attention to the marketplace to begin studying a scarf, or a Smurf piggybank. For the most part, Barney Taggart was not a paranoid type of guy, they all left that stuff to Hank, because Hank was the guy that thought the Martians were watching them—that’s what he sometimes called the hidden They, the Martians, or sometimes the Men from Mars.

Yeah, Hank was the living Looney Tunes of the group, and for the most