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Powerless
What if I told you I knew the secret that lay at the center of the grand unified theory? If I knew the secret underpinning string theory, understood that the Higgs boson was but an imposter, what then? I bet if you knew that my discovery could literally man a full chessboard with Nobel prizes then you would take me seriously. But why would you believe me? Why would you trust the tragic boy with a dead mother complex? I wouldn’t believe me if I were you. If some random Caucasian male (definitely not of under-average height) walked up to me and said he held the secret to the universe, a veritable cosmological stem cell, I’d spit water in his face and walk away. To be fair, I’m not a very polite person but still incredulity would be an appropriate response.
Unfortunately for the rightfully skeptical, my whole story is 100% true. Though it starts from truly human origins and might contain a little bit of swearing (or maybe a lot, does it matter?), this tale is my extraordinary journey beyond the stars. I will try to impress you, make you laugh and make you cry (you might cut onions while you read, I don’t know what you do and I don’t judge). You might hate me at times (probably most of the times) but I meet genuinely extraordinary people that will make you forget the people you know on Earth.
I’d like to say this is a great science fiction epic but that would imply it being fiction (and epic). Hopefully my heroic battles and cowardly retreats will enthrall you while you realize I’m both the unluckiest and luckiest bastard you ever read about. I survived a deadly hug with a black hole, I learned to create Pop-Tarts out of thin air and I might have killed myself at some point. It truly was a roller coaster of emotions; especially that Pop-Tart genesis part. I truly envy you because you’re this close to holding in your hands my final dying words…
To be fair I’m still alive but fact is I’ve laid out my whole life story in a manuscript that could be yours. You can judge for yourself if I’m the tragedy or the comedy of this play but above all else, I hope you will be entertained.
Derek
Unfortunately for the rightfully skeptical, my whole story is 100% true. Though it starts from truly human origins and might contain a little bit of swearing (or maybe a lot, does it matter?), this tale is my extraordinary journey beyond the stars. I will try to impress you, make you laugh and make you cry (you might cut onions while you read, I don’t know what you do and I don’t judge). You might hate me at times (probably most of the times) but I meet genuinely extraordinary people that will make you forget the people you know on Earth.
I’d like to say this is a great science fiction epic but that would imply it being fiction (and epic). Hopefully my heroic battles and cowardly retreats will enthrall you while you realize I’m both the unluckiest and luckiest bastard you ever read about. I survived a deadly hug with a black hole, I learned to create Pop-Tarts out of thin air and I might have killed myself at some point. It truly was a roller coaster of emotions; especially that Pop-Tart genesis part. I truly envy you because you’re this close to holding in your hands my final dying words…
To be fair I’m still alive but fact is I’ve laid out my whole life story in a manuscript that could be yours. You can judge for yourself if I’m the tragedy or the comedy of this play but above all else, I hope you will be entertained.
Derek
253 pages, Paperback
Published July 16, 2019
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