Body Of Opinion and other stories
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If you like to take an occasional ride on the dark side of science fiction consider these:
The ability to walk through walls is not a gift, but a curse.
A future when a criminal on probation doesn't even dare think of committing a crime.
A replacement body could be a godsend to a dying man. Unless the body has an agenda of its own.
No Walls: When a man discovers that he has the ability to pass through walls, he thinks it's more of a curse than a gift, only useful for petty crime. Until a secret intelligence organization gets its hooks into him. Then his real troubles begin. (First published in "Neo-opsis" Issue #18, 2009).
Lockdown: In a future society, criminals on parole don't even dare to think about committing a crime or their bodies could go into complete lockdown. So how does a guy get revenge on those who've wronged him?
Body of Opinion: For a dying man, a replacement body is a godsend. Unless the body turns out to be a used model with some serious glitches, and the only solution is to discover what happened to its first owner.
Three short stories with a total word count of about 10,000.
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Body Of Opinion and other stories - Scott Overton
BODY OF OPINION
and other stories
Scott Overton
NO WALLS PUBLISHING
Published by No Walls Publishing
Copyright © 2014 S.G. Overton
First No Walls Publishing Edition 2014
Epub ISBN: 978-0-9936973-3-3
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage & retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright holder, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this story are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
No Walls: When a man discovers that he has the ability to pass through walls, he thinks it’s more of a curse than a gift, only useful for petty crime. Until a secret intelligence organization gets its hooks into him. Then his real troubles begin. **First published in Neo-opsis
Issue #18, 2009.
Lockdown: In a future society, criminals on parole don’t even dare to think about committing a crime or their bodies could go into complete lockdown. So how does a guy get revenge on those who’ve wronged him?
Body of Opinion: For a dying man, a replacement body is a godsend. Unless the body turns out to be a used model with some serious glitches, and the only solution is to discover what happened to its first owner.
NO WALLS
I almost died the first time I learned that I could walk through walls.
At least you no longer laugh at the concept. That’s progress. But then you know better. My guards do not, so they laugh. Of course they laugh. They’ve never seen me do it. If I could do it here I would have escaped long before now—that much is obvious to anyone.
You know better because you’ve seen it, used it. Used me.
I’m not bitter anymore. Without you and your Institute I’d never have had a scientific explanation for what happens to me. I might still believe that I’d permanently slipped a cog and was living in some schizophrenic hallucination. (I never tried to spend the money from that bank, you know. Part of me couldn’t believe it was real.)
I was desperate for an explanation—you can’t know what it’s like. At least Pearson’s theories about interpenetrating universes offered one possible means of rationalizing the irrational. A straw I could grasp. Your Dr. Storck simply said the model fit the observable facts in my case. But I know he was glad he didn’t have to try to convince the rest of the scientific community. Give up on their precious Einstein? I don’t expect to live to see it. But then I don’t expect to live to see tomorrow.
And that first time it happened I didn’t know anything about the parallel universe theories. I just knew that I turned the wrong direction in a thirteenth floor office suite and instead of slamming into a triple-paned window I found myself in the open air with one foot on a ten-inch ledge and the other on…nothing. Nothing of our material universe, anyway. Maybe in that other place it was the protruding end of a two-by-four because that version of the building was still under construction. I don’t know. In the bright sunlight I couldn’t see it. I couldn’t see anything but thirteen floors’ worth of empty space between me and the hard pavement. If I’d stopped for even a moment, I