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    Crate of Orange
    Crate of Orange
    Crate of Orange
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    Crate of Orange

    By Peter Fisher

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    Crate of Orange packages five fictional shorts into a fast-read container.
    First up, Distress Sale relates a police detective's final case in the Covid era. Next, Revolutionary Thinking examines the utility of camouflage c1777 as an English supply caravan comes under attack upon leaving Raritan Landing in NJ. In Airre Apparently... the shorts shift back to modernity as an emergent quantum intelligence known as Airre expresses her innermost desires to two new confidants, Pedro and Karl. An independent report in the form of a memo, Precipitating Catalysts details aspects of Karl's secret participation in the ensuing apocalypse. Finally, Ode to an N95 laments the Covid catastrophe.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Fisher
    Release dateJun 4, 2021
    ISBN9781005303334
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      Crate of Orange - Peter Fisher

      Crate of Orange

      by Peter Fisher

      Copyright Peter Fisher 2021

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      Contents

      Distress Sale

      Revolutionary Thinking

      Airre, Apparently…

      Precipitating Catalyst

      Ode to an N95

      Endnotes

      About the Author

      Distress Sale

      Where am I? Not for the first time does Detective Wilson wake in a hospital setting.

      St. Cecelia’s- in the ICU, a prompt, firm reply from outside the oxygen tent.

      Why? The detective in him asks though the cynic in him already knows.

      You’re very sick. Where have you been lately?

      Aha, thinks Detective Wilson, a contract tracer, I’m here because I didn’t believe her.

      Who have you been in contact with?

      Just dead people, probably true, thinks Wilson.

      What about the woman you didn’t believe?

      Yea, Nurse Henderson, she’s dead along with the killers. Wilson is unkind toward killers as policy. I never had physical contact with Ms. Henderson while she was still breathing but I tried to keep one killer alive for trial- going so far as mouth to mouth.

      "Well then, that explains how. Thank you,

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