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    Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors
    Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors
    Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors
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    Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors

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    This title contains two data drops (stories): Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors (4900 words) and Major Indigestion(3700).

    Status updating...Time and Space breached...Data leak detected...
    The archives of The Numbered Entity Project have opened in this membrane of existence for the very first time. Inside the, at once both infinitesimal and infinity-spanning, data stores wait the tale of rogues, outcasts and 'others.' Those whose time was numbered but refused to 'know their place.' Those who tried, for better or worse, to change their respective worlds of swords and magic, steam and musket, or nanotechnology. The Project records all, in tribute to Time and Space.
    To this end, we have two more tales.
    The first, a fairy-tale of machines and magic. The Machinist-Sorcerer War had left the world a wasteland of ash and orphans. Yuan struggles to come of age in a land built upon broken childhoods. When invited to perform her own brand of magic for the Queen of nearby Mirror City, Yuan jumps at the chance to leave behind the small mindedness of her village. But a terrible secret lurk behind the façade of Mirror's City's beauty.
    The second story is quite different, something lighter. Randal, failed space trader and pilot of the cargo juggernaut Spice, finds himself, after a few tequilas too many, stranded at the arse end of the galaxy. In order to fund passage back to viable trade routes he has to make that one elusive sale. Problem is the only trading station within any reachable distance happens to be a moon inhabited by a half-loony 'Teaching Earthling as a Second Language' teacher and utterly, unfathomable natives. Suffice to say, things don't look good...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Numbered Entity Project
    Release dateMay 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301839070
    Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors
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    The Numbered Entity Project

    Always there on the fringes, in the margins. The corrupted file nibbling at pristine zeroes and ones. The hairline fracture in an otherwise flawless blade. A scratched nose and an 'I love you.' Waiting...Until you can find it and download it.

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      Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors - The Numbered Entity Project

      Green Fingers And Broken Mirrors

      by

      The Numbered Entity Project

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      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors

      Major Indigestion

      Prologue

      Status updating…Time and Space breached…Data leak detected…

      The archives of The Numbered Entity Project have opened in this membrane of existence for the very first time. Inside the, at once both infinitesimal and infinity-spanning, data stores wait the tale of rogues, outcasts and 'others.' Those whose time was numbered but refused to 'know their place.' Those who tried, for better or worse, to change their respective worlds of swords and magic, steam and musket, or nanotechnology. The Project records all, in tribute to Time and Space.

      To this end, we have two more tales.

      The first, a fairy-tale of machines and magic. The Machinist-Sorcerer War had left the world a wasteland of ash and orphans. Yuan struggles to come of age in a land built upon broken childhoods. When invited to perform her own brand of magic for the Queen of nearby Mirror City, Yuan jumps at the chance to leave behind the small mindedness of her village. But a terrible secret lurk behind the façade of Mirror's City's beauty.

      The second story is quite different, something lighter. Randal, failed space trader and pilot of the cargo juggernaut Spice, finds himself, after a few tequilas too many, stranded at the arse end of the galaxy. In order to fund passage back to viable trade routes he has to make that one elusive sale. Problem is the only trading station within any reachable distance happens to be a moon inhabited by a half-loony 'Teaching Earthling as a Second Language' teacher and utterly, unfathomable natives. Suffice to say, things don't look good…

      *Note to all entities of energy or matter, this data will automatically format to suit your requirements of information exchange.

      Green Fingers and Broken Mirrors

      Yuan the flower girl

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