Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Forty-Six

Utopia?

by
Alexander M Zoltai

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It was no place; and, Margie was about to create it.

She entered the observation bubble on deck three, sat down across from Evangeline, and said:

“I’m going to no place.”

“What?”

“Utopia—it means ‘no place’.”

“I thought it meant something like the ideal or best place…”

“Folks do use it to mean ideal, the word history says no place.”

“O.K., how ya gonna do it?”

“I’ve created a virtual reality game—wanna play it?”

“Sure!”

They left the third deck of the s...