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    Vestigial Surreality: 06
    Vestigial Surreality: 06
    Vestigial Surreality: 06
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    Vestigial Surreality: 06

    By Douglas Christian Larsen

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    Episode 6: Into the Sandbox. Seven is bewildered when reality seems to buckle and bend before her, sucking her into a very dangerous and potentially deadly new existence.

    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
    ISBN9781365043826
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      Vestigial Surreality: 06

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      Into the Sandbox

      The Sunday SciFi Fantasy Serial

      by Douglas Christian Larsen

      ISBN: 978-1-365-04382-6

      © Douglas Christian Larsen 2016

      Seven stood looking out the dormer window upon the pine forest, sipping at her favorite mug of coffee. She really did like the ginger, as there was some complementary interaction going on between spices; the cinnamon not so sweet, the ginger not so biting, and the too-strong coffee not so strong, the concoction all blending into one powerful brew. It was like a hot frothy coffee milkshake. She smiled sadly and formed the dormer window into a window seat so that she might sit and enjoy the forest below, and this is exactly what she did.

      With her sandbox on creep, for the last thirty hours she buckled down and concentrated on her schoolwork, actually moving herself from several weeks ahead of schedule, to closing down the quarter, taking and passing all her exams. If she concentrated, and really made an effort, she might accomplish two years of education in a full week of this lively, attenuated version of reality,

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