Rood Der: 05: Eldritch Purgings

By Douglas Christian Larsen

Rood Der: 05: Eldritch Purgings. The group receives quite a surprise when Barney turns up starring in an old brain-in-the-vat movie, and Frances fights off the parasites purged from Frederic's body, on the other side of the Red Door.

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: Feb 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365734946

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Rood Der: 05: Eldritch Purgings

Rood Der: 05

Eldritch Purgings

The Sunday SciFi-Fantasy Serial

by Douglas Christian Larsen

978-1-365-73494-6

© Douglas Christian Larsen 2017

Several of the guys were together, doing what they called their Special Sunday Project, even though today was Tuesday, the day before their usual Prayer Meetin’ (what they all called their Wednesday night gatherings of the Sky Valley Group). They had first started on Sundays, thus the name, but then their project evolved into whatever day they could get the most of them together, to track the mayhem of Bigfoot—yes, they had gone along with the media and had started referring to their quarry as Bigfoot, or the Bigfooted Fellow, the actual Viking that had escaped from Sky Valley through the Red Door (before there was an actual door, of any color, on the very first day when the portal suddenly opened) and had run amuck in their world. After trashing most of Hank’s house, the renegade Viking had burst through a window and set himself loose upon Rand World (what they were now calling their own world, Rand World, some kind of low-budget simulation that measured changes in world run along the principles of Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what they knew as the real world). In several months of freedom, the Viking Bigfoot had never been captured, and had left a trail of bare footprints—size fifteen—across the city and out into the woods, where he was periodically observed, a very broad man, not too tall, but exceptionally hairy, and generally in some form of nakedness. His many crimes were generally perpetrated upon livestock, sometimes upon hanging laundry, and occasionally against picnickers.

Hunters had fired upon the Viking Bigfoot, and police had tackled the monster on many occasions. But the terrifying fact was, this renegade in Rand World, was just a heck of a whole lot stronger than the average man, and preternaturally fast, and much more clever than any raccoon or coyote. He was smarter than a bear, and was often mistaken for some hairless, mutant bear, despite his overall hairiness, and seemed to best resemble the legend of Bigfoot, despite his lack of height. He had burst two pairs of steel handcuffs, and snapped a set of industrial-strength zip ties.