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    Vestigial Surreality: 11
    Vestigial Surreality: 11
    Vestigial Surreality: 11
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    Vestigial Surreality: 11

    By Douglas Christian Larsen

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    Episode 11: Awakenings. Seven receives a surprise visitor. Jack and Stacey wake in a world that seems like heaven (but could be hell).

    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.

    The world may not be exactly what it seems. There is no body. Data is data.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 13, 2016
    ISBN9781365045653
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      Vestigial Surreality - Douglas Christian Larsen

      Vestigial Surreality: 11

      Vestigial Surreality: 11

      Awakenings

      The Sunday SciFi Fantasy Serial

      by Douglas Christian Larsen

      ISBN: 978-1-365-04565-3

      © Douglas Christian Larsen 2016

      She stared at him a long moment, recognizing him as the old homeless-seeming man from the park, the one discussing her with Mr. Oddjobb. She thought of him as the pigeon man. She wanted to trust him, see him as an ally, and everything about him appealed to her, especially after the things she had just witnessed, experienced. Despite her trembling hands and the cold little feet running up and down her spine, she nodded, calmly, and advanced through her Inner Sanctum and joined him on the couch. She glanced at the coffee table, seeing again the falling of her crystal sandbox, the whole world inside destroyed.

      Seven produced her favorite coffee mix in her favorite mug, and she sipped the warm, comforting brew, and glanced briefly at the old man.

      Can I get you anything? she said, as lightly as possible, as if he had just stopped in to pass pleasantries.

      Oh, yes, but thank you, hmmm, he said in his kindly, grandfatherly voice, tones gently warm, friendly. Maybe a spot of, I don’t know, breakfast tea?

      A fragile cup and

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