What Price to Live the Dream? (Short story preview)

WHAT PRICE TO LIVE THE DREAM?
(C) 1990, 2011 Victor D. Lopez

Ken was tired, despondent and none too sober. He’d learnt only a few hours before that the Phoenix Project of which he was the lead scientist was about to be scrapped, that funding would not be renewed by Congress for the current fiscal year to the intelligence agency for which he worked. He saw the last 15 years of his life, years in which he’d been entirely absorbed in working on this most carefully guarded project and which had bo...