The Flashing Future - The Operating Manual by Tait Mckenzie
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A continuing series of speculative and sci-fi flash fictions attempting to intersect current issues, futuristic scenarios, and the confrontation of man with Total Reality
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chapter 1:
The Operating Manual
chapter 2:
The Greatest Discovery
chapter 3:
The Instant Engine
chapter 4:
The Automata
chapter 5:
The Big Hunt
chapter 6:
The Small Storm
chapter 7:
The Circles (in the style of Faulkner)
chapter 8:
The Pandemic
chapter 9:
The Bird Watchers (for Renée)
chapter 10:
The Arch Nemeses
chapter 11:
Heavens and Alchemy
The Operating Manual
chapter 1
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updated Mar 05, 2009
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Worried over the global economic crises and wondering where he was going to get the budget to balance the lot, Obama was invited on a personal space tour (which was also looking for funding). Pondering if the ship had an operating manual as they alit up the gravity well, or at least an abort button, he turned to the window and soon money lost its weight. There was Earth, a little cloudier and muddied than he imagined. But, Obama smiled, that’s what made it real. The planet was breathtaking, all sun soaked amidst the embering stars, if not a little on the small side.
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