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“Relax, dummy. I’m just putting this on your head. It’s tapped into our mainframe so we can hack your brain.”
“Hack my what?”
“Well, how else we gonna get you right? Brain’s just like any other hard drive.”

“How would you know if they changing the past? A frog in a pot of boiling water don’t know it’s getting hotter till he’s cooked! You talking ’bout rules. Them rules are for us, not for them! They out here breaking the rules and waging war against reality! Waging war on us!”

“How’s work in the time-travel business?” he asked finally.
Annabeth touched the sickle pin at her chest. “Mostly White folk trying to gentrify the past.”

Some suffering with FMP had tried to drill holes into their heads, as if to bleed out their minds. Suicides weren’t uncommon. One had broken into a big tech AI center, dousing servers with gasoline and shouting “You lie! You lie! You lie!” His execution had been broadcast live on the sports streaming apps, with bets placed on how long his legs would kick.

More unrest in the provinces of Central America—not to mention threatened air strikes on Caracas and Buenos Aires, with accusations that the Federation of Latin American States was meddling in the United States’s colonies.

Like Cronus, our company’s founder believes he has also ushered in a golden age—though we look askance at the child-eating.

Plus trying a kindle narrated, text highlighting read along - something new before kindle unlimited subscription expires!

Initial inspiration: Saturday morning short read choice - maybe I’m not as against myth and fantasy since enjoying the Percy Jackson musical?

This is so damn real