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Technology’s Final Betrayal
A revenge like no other
Chapter One
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.
I’m not so sure that’s true, as I continue to scream in terror. I can certainly hear my screams!
I think I’ve been taken for a ride. To where, I hear you ask. If I knew the answer to that question, I’m sure I wouldn’t be so frightened and I’d stop my screaming.
My boyfriend and I are sitting on the roof of my house. It is a hot summer night and we are enjoying the slightest cool breeze, as we plan our future together.
“Simon, wouldn’t it just be the bomb, if we could travel to a new world? Just you and I, the initial explorers, the leaders in migrating mankind to a new planet, clean and fresh, to develop as we please,” I say as I point to all the glorious stars in the sky.
“Why not Cathryn, anything is possible. We just need to believe,” Simon responds.
As we both lay there, daydreaming of the possibility of space travel, star gazing and deep within our own thoughts, we doze off, to dream of the possibilities of a new adventure together.
Suddenly, I am rudely woken, with that dream feeling of falling. Except it’s not a dream, or so I find, when I hit the ground with a…
