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    MIRI: The Story
    MIRI: The Story
    MIRI: The Story
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    MIRI: The Story

    By Viorel Vâlcu

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    MIRI describes the Story of a young person going through a day unlike any other. A series of unfortunate events is challenging his perception of life until the entire world is replaced by a different reality. The modern times he thought he was a part of, seem to mirror a distant past or even a future that never happened.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherViorel Vâlcu
    Release dateFeb 11, 2019
    ISBN9789730288483
    MIRI: The Story
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    Viorel Vâlcu

    Born on a day before Y2K, I am equally millennial and skeptical about it. I hope my works of fiction will bring you joy in the days you are living and help you live through the hard times knowing you are not alone.

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      MIRI - Viorel Vâlcu

      MIRI: The Story

      by Viorel Vâlcu

      This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. If there is any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales it is entirely coincidental.

      © 2019 Viorel Vâlcu

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or modified in any form, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, as provisioned by EU copyright law. For permissions contact Viorel Vâlcu, at:

      viorelvalcu.ebook@gmail.com

      Ebook ISBN: 978-973-0-28848-3.

      Iasi 2019

      People here used to say: time is a commodity one should treasure, and so did Moe … or at least nod he did on several such occasions. Nevertheless he was, like many others, sweating periods of his life trying to align with the social order, or the social trends, or both if you can define them as distinct. But Moe, a random guy, though an important individual in his life story, did not think too much about the time passing – after all, he was just 26.

      Eventually, the thought of his future demise flashed in the beginning of a day, scheduled to come because of man-made calendars.

      He was going to the office on a cloudy morning of August. After the sporadic raining since the previous evening the air had a fragrance many would enjoy, him including, hadn’t it been for the many Septembers with similar weather when he had to go to school.

      Actually, only he knew what he was thinking about that forenoon, but when he met his fellow workmate, who was slowly walking out of the parking lot, Moe encountered a blunt statement from Ted:

      - Soon I’m retiring – what happened!?

      - You’re reti--?

      - No! What happened with my life?

      Moe seemed clueless and confused on how to react – to bring some solace on his face? which he failed, so he smiled with an innocence he used to express frequently and get away with it.

      - You may now feel, like you have all of your life ahead of you, continued his monologue Ted, but a few days later you’re 46 …

      - Unlike sixty …

      - … This life … runs like a rabid alpine stream – too fast, too narrow to maneuver, and in ten days – boom! You’re an old trout! Well … you know what I mean, right? The brook I told you about? That fish, that has been caught, by me. Yes, it was big, very. But who could have known?

      And Moe nodded in silence, although you could see on his face this was a discussion he would rather not have at all in the near future, maybe even decades. Life was so much of a mystery compared to the timeline of someone having an apparent midlife crisis. And last week he went with Cassie to some banks asking about mortgages. What should he have done with such wisdom? Spend all of his savings on crazy adventures? No thank you Ted!

      Well, yesterday, when he was bending a deadline by one and a half days, Moe was lambasted for surfing ’70s Camaros under 10k on the web, which looked rather desperate anyways. Ted however jumped in with a tangential remark about Moe being only, young. Of course Mr. William, nicknamed the [pig] iron man, and Willion [reasons to …], had almost raised his hand while pointing at him – that being a very close one, even in concept.

      Ted was about ten years older than the iron man, and he basically spent all his adult life at Saturn Aemilia Inc. All along with William, Ted’s recent failed promotion, and many other factors, the depression of the second could be somewhat later explained. Ted, actually, could have headed this department, but according to accidental witnesses there were a few accounts of him fighting with the management board, over a project that eventually failed. Nobody wanted to take on the responsibility for it, so the division involved was scrapped, while Ted, being a threat to their future bonuses – got some leg irons. For all that, Edward emerged as the villain, in the common knowledge of the company’s cubical nation.

      Despite his demotivating appearance in the morning Ted was an inspiring model for the swarm of juniors, and was the least favorite candidate in the run for the most ignored colleagues of the year. With no PhD, a career path drawn by the Cat of Destiny, along with obvious difficulties of reproducing comedy sketches, at Christmas parties, dared by no one, Ted was nonetheless a charismatic person.

      He was after all a veteran sourcing-specialist who acquired a broad logistics experience in the field of mineral exploration. Fancying various diplomas on the walls of his royal-wide cubical opened to the parking lot panorama, along with Time-like field pictures shot all-around the globe, in another life, Ted sporadically cast business insights on the nearby workmates. And, Moe was the closest responsive or unaware recipient of this useful radiation.

      - So … how is that new project of cobalt exploration going on? Moe tried some talking about the

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