The Choices Michael Graeme http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974 en 2006 A fifteen minute read: I am sitting here in the lounge-bar of the McKinley Arms Hotel, by the shores of Loch Lomond, and I am staring out into the twilight at my choices. I have been this way before many times and I always seem to go wrong at this point, so you must forgive what must seem like fastidious caution, but I simply have to get it right this time! fiction meaning short story speculative metaphysical http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.mobi The Enigma that was Carla Sinclair Michael Graeme http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2822 en 2004 A short story by Michael Graeme (a 45 minute read): I was not completely unhinged. She was just a computer program, a crude simulation - at best a never ending animated cartoon with only one character and no story line. But she was "something",... a hobby I suppose you might say. Other young men had hobbies, equally obscure, though perhaps more socially inclusive. They collected camera gear, they went fishing, raced cars or drank themselves stupid. Me? I coded in my bedroom. Same thing? Well, not quite. You see, while other people's hobbies took them out of themselves, mine enabled me to climb deeper inside. science fiction fantasy meaning short story speculative metaphysical http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.mobi