Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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sister city, Pflugerville. Each bum is armed with at least one cardboard sign emblazoned in black magic marker with one of like six varying sob stories.

Someone should tell them the sob stories don't hit like they used to when you see 300 of them in one trip across town.

There's always been some bums here, but not like this. It is just Bum Central Station all over nowadays.

The Patriot Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizens; even to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designed a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the perpetual motion of ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma." However, its inventor, Baron von Westphalen, and his associates are hiding the fact that the generators alter the ocean's currents and cause the earth to slow its rotation, as well as that the transmission of Fluid Karma to portable receivers via quantum entanglement is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.