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August 31, 2005
Volume 5, Issue 31
One simple word today:
Vanished.
Laurence - File Not Found
Laurence grabbed the monitor and howled.
"My story is not gone, dammit!" he yelled. "Give it back, you motherfucking motherfucker!"
FILE NOT FOUND
"I worked for hours on that goddamned thing! I looked up tons of pages on Wikipedia and IMDB, for crying out loud!"
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"Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!" screamed Laurence.
A cat ran out from behind the monitor.
"Did you break it, you furry little shit?" yelled Laurence at the cat.
The cat leapt off of the table and out the door.
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"Shit," said Laurence. "oh well."
He pulled out a pen and began to write.
Ted: The Beginning of the End
With a tiny little popping sound, the universe vanished. THIS universe was fine, but the one I had created inside the bell jar was decidedly gone.
Day and night I had spent riding herd on the energy matrix, slowly building the mass and light curves, and adjusting the temperature and density just to prepare the matrix for the moment of the "mini-bang."
After five days, it collapsed, all that energy and mass just gone. Damn, I abhor a vacuum.
Jehova in the next lab has managed to keep his going for six days now, maybe I'll ask him for help.