Vestigial Surreality: 03

By Douglas Christian Larsen

Episode 3: Seven. She observes a world through a unique interface, and notices something strange.

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365043758

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Vestigial Surreality: 03

Vestigial Surreality: 03

Seven

The Sunday SciFi Fantasy Serial

by Douglas Christian Larsen

ISBN: 978-1-365-04375-8

© Douglas Christian Larsen 2016

Newbury stirred and opened her eyes in the blackness. It always seemed like waking up, rising from sleep, despite the fact that she had been more active over the past three days than any collective seven days in her previous life, maybe even ten days, or more. She should expect to be tired, exhausted, after seventy-two hours, and yet she felt wonderful. The lid of the chamber rose silently and the very dim lighting in the bunker greeted her eyes like full daylight. She blinked several times and instinctively yawned, although she was not tired, not in the least.

Newbury swung her long legs over the side of the padded chamber and rose to a sitting position. All her limbs tingled, especially her fingers and toes. She pushed herself away from the chamber and stood, taking deep breaths, smiling.

She felt alive. More fully and vibrantly alive than at any other time in her twenty years of existence.

She padded softly with bare feet in