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"Still three days You were only out for a few hours this last tih to let us do the last of the post-op cleanup work"

"Yeah, don’t ever do that again If you’re going to knock me out, I need to know before it happens" I took another drink of Coke "I need an Internet connection, shoes, and another soda"

Dr Kied"

"Good" My can was al Dr Kimberley’s smile "Let’s have ourselves a revolution"

We’ve reached Seattle in one piece It was a little touch-and-go for a while there, but now here we are, and Maggie has soround Money Is there anything it can’t do?

We’re about to leave to see the Monkey, the man who can supposedly make identities that fool anyone and everyone in the world That ie’s last hurrah; e’re done here, she’s heading back to Weed, back to her bulldogs and her grindhouse lad, in a way

At least one of us is going to make it out of this shitstor of Shaun Mason, August 1, 2041 Unpublished

There are days when I wake up and realize I no longer know thetemples and your two-hundred-dollar haircut? Who are you, in your fancy suit, with your vast political power that does you no good when it really hosts in your eyes?

Seriously, you assle Who the fk are you, and why are you looking back at ood will it be for a ains the whole world, yet forfeits his own soul? It’s on days like this that I really want to know

I wish I could explain to them why I let this happen I wish I could tell theht, even for a second, that they were going to forgive me…

--Froust 1, 2041 Unpublished

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The polite voice of the hotel rousedin disorientation at the opulent room around me--it would have been a suite in any other hotel--before I re

My clothes were scattered near the bathrooht controls I’d spent al with theht for the seasonally depressed, shifting them into the UV spectrum for the sake of people with retinal Kellis-Ahts on and the white-noise generator turned to full It was aled

I hadn’t slept that well in a year Being woken, even gently, felt like a betrayal

There’d been no discussion of hoe’d be getting to the Monkey’s: We just asseain was the way things were supposed to be Mahir got into the front passenger seat, balancing his tablet on his knee Maggie and Becks took the back, and in the rearviewout the rearfor signs of pursuit