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Echo: A Corporate Science Fiction Short Story
Don’t drop your Resonator.
Don’t let your client die.
In that order.
Echo’s job is simple: travel instantaneously across universes, attend to the customer whose health is in jeopardy (or not), and go home. That’s what the Company wants, and if Echo’s faithful prayers to the Corporate Gods have anything to do with it, that’s what they’ll get.
After all, that’s what customers pay for when they buy a RealEverywhere vacation package—the chance to travel to any universe and do whatever they want, including killing their alternate selves. That’s always fun, right?
It’s a good thing Echo just renewed her life insurance policy, because by the time she reaches her customer’s universe, he’s missing. Something very strange has happened, and after all Echo has seen in her lifetime as an Emergency Medical Technician, that’s something to fear.
“Echo” is a fast-paced corporate sci-fi adventure that combines notes of dark humor with all too possible futuristic concepts.
Don’t let your client die.
In that order.
Echo’s job is simple: travel instantaneously across universes, attend to the customer whose health is in jeopardy (or not), and go home. That’s what the Company wants, and if Echo’s faithful prayers to the Corporate Gods have anything to do with it, that’s what they’ll get.
After all, that’s what customers pay for when they buy a RealEverywhere vacation package—the chance to travel to any universe and do whatever they want, including killing their alternate selves. That’s always fun, right?
It’s a good thing Echo just renewed her life insurance policy, because by the time she reaches her customer’s universe, he’s missing. Something very strange has happened, and after all Echo has seen in her lifetime as an Emergency Medical Technician, that’s something to fear.
“Echo” is a fast-paced corporate sci-fi adventure that combines notes of dark humor with all too possible futuristic concepts.
42 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 22, 2021
4 people want to read
About the author
Jessa Forest
9 books18 followersHello there! My name is Jessa and I’m an award winning poet and speculative fiction author. I’ve been writing to escape reality since I was a kid. I’m a proud, second generation Laboratory Technologist and I have an unhealthy obsession with Warhammer 40,000. I love reading and writing gory books where no one is the hero. My two main projects are The Slaughter Chronicles and Speculative-E Shorts.
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December 14, 2021
At RealEverywhere you can travel through the EphiEther and interact with your very own parallel universe. Experience the life you never had! See yourself the fountain-head of your own imperial dynasty, see yourself with a family that isn’t yours—who are these people? We don’t know!—Kill them and take over! WE WON’T TELL!
Wow. This was gory and scary and so crazy. I loved it!! Echo is a medtech who travels through time and space when someone calls for medical assistance. She’s a futuristic Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT). She gets called to this place and all sorts of things go on. Scary and very gory things. Did I mention it was gory? It’s very gory. For a short story this was soooooo good. I don’t like short stories but this one was excellent.
If you’ve seen the Thirteenth Floor a sci-fi triller that came out in 1999, the whole world within a world within a world. This is like that!!!!! Except you can also travel in time. It’s so trippy but so good. And it’s so short. Perfect for people like me that are trying to reach a reading goal in December.
Wow. This was gory and scary and so crazy. I loved it!! Echo is a medtech who travels through time and space when someone calls for medical assistance. She’s a futuristic Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT). She gets called to this place and all sorts of things go on. Scary and very gory things. Did I mention it was gory? It’s very gory. For a short story this was soooooo good. I don’t like short stories but this one was excellent.
If you’ve seen the Thirteenth Floor a sci-fi triller that came out in 1999, the whole world within a world within a world. This is like that!!!!! Except you can also travel in time. It’s so trippy but so good. And it’s so short. Perfect for people like me that are trying to reach a reading goal in December.
June 29, 2021
This little story knocked my socks off!
I loved the use of future science and technology. This is a future that seems completely believable. After all, if there was a device that could take you on your 'perfect vacation', everyone would want one, right?
The story follows Echo, a medic of sorts who is employed to help customers who need it. She's on what seems to be a routine job, when things start to turn strange...
Things I loved:
the description of a particularly gory part. Gotta love the blood and guts!
Echo's character
The end (so good!)
Things I didn't like:
Why is it over already? I want more!
I loved the use of future science and technology. This is a future that seems completely believable. After all, if there was a device that could take you on your 'perfect vacation', everyone would want one, right?
The story follows Echo, a medic of sorts who is employed to help customers who need it. She's on what seems to be a routine job, when things start to turn strange...
Things I loved:
the description of a particularly gory part. Gotta love the blood and guts!
Echo's character
The end (so good!)
Things I didn't like:
Why is it over already? I want more!
July 17, 2021
I picked this story up after finishing Ms. Forest’s stunning debut ‘Pulling Teeth and Other Stories’ and I was not disappointed!
Echo is an intriguing story set in a universe where high paying patrons can travel to alternate dimensions and realities to (amongst other things) torture, torment or kill different versions of themselves. On a routine mission, a young company medical specialist finds herself trapped in a nightmarish life or death struggle…
Just like Pulling Teeth, the author again delivers a well written and unique story with some gory scenes. The pace is excellent and the characters well written. There’s also a few excellent tongue-in-cheek jabs at working for corporate stooges that I think many people can relate too.
Ms. Forest continues to do an excellent job of pushing the boundaries of speculative fiction and I look forward to reading her work for many years to come!
Echo is an intriguing story set in a universe where high paying patrons can travel to alternate dimensions and realities to (amongst other things) torture, torment or kill different versions of themselves. On a routine mission, a young company medical specialist finds herself trapped in a nightmarish life or death struggle…
Just like Pulling Teeth, the author again delivers a well written and unique story with some gory scenes. The pace is excellent and the characters well written. There’s also a few excellent tongue-in-cheek jabs at working for corporate stooges that I think many people can relate too.
Ms. Forest continues to do an excellent job of pushing the boundaries of speculative fiction and I look forward to reading her work for many years to come!
June 25, 2021
This story will hook you in the opening which is an ad for a futuristic space and time travel device that reads like a late night infomercial. It’s fantastic! The story follows Echo, a MedSpec nurse who gets called in to help those who are sick. One of these visits goes terribly awry, and here comes a twist! If you enjoy sci-fi, futuristic, speculative fiction, you will love this story. It is fast paced and the setting will draw you in. I highly recommend! P.S. I think this should be a full length book. 😉
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