Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

Time to punch out.  Grab the wallet, the phone, hoodie…hop in the car, start the engine…ok, let’s plug the jack into my phone and fire up a podcast…

Wait—this isn’t my phone.  What the…

Oh no—I’ve taken Susie Wellington’s phone by mistake!  I spin the wheel, taking the next exit, then another one so I can head back up the freeway.  I never lock my phone!  Gotta make it back before she can—

It’s too late; I see people jumping from my office building—little black figures flailing their limbs against the twilight-dimmed horizon.  They’re plummeting to their death, screaming in horror from the unutterable evil that’s been unleashed from my phone.  As it spreads and grows, I see nearby pedestrians burst into flames or wither into mummies.  High-rise buildings break and collapse, torn asunder from the disgusting foulness pouring from my phone.

Susie’s activated my iTunes playlist and played it on speaker mode!  Jesus Christ—couldn’t you tell just by looking at it that I’ve got the world’s shittiest taste in music EVER???  FUCK!

Tears leak down my cheeks.  Snotty sobs erupt from my mouth.  My unholy playlist has triggered the apocalypse.  I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.

No options left.  So I open my eReader to Echo, activating its reality distortion powers.  Magic flash.

Time rewinds.  ZzweeooZ’BOOP!  Suddenly I’m back in the office conference room, my hand hovering over Susie’s phone, the one I’d mistaken for my own in that other reality where I’d inadvertently blown apart existence into a giant swirl of death-ridden shit-stew.

And I make the right choice this time:  I snatch up my own phone and stuff it in my pocket.

NO one gets to see my vile-ass playlist!  Ha HA!

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Have you accidentally destroyed All That Is and All That Was through your damnable taste in music?  Never fear!

Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle  Vol. 3 on Kindle here:  Vol. 3 on Kindle  Vol.4 on Kindle here:  Vol. 4 on Kindle  Echo Omnibus here:  Echo Omnibus  Echo Vol. 1 & 2 Combined Edition here:  Combined Edition  Musings, Volume 1 is available here:  Musings, Volume 1  If you wanna hear me babble on about anything and everything, and strain my FREAKIN’ BRAIN, then here’s a link to my podcast:  Strained Brains!  It is on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google Play!  Please give it a listen and a five-star review!  Here’s the miscellaneous gear that I use to try and become an uber-human:  Optimization!  🙂 🙂 😀

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