counting the three days before I would board my train and begin my journey, the five days to January first: the day I knew would be the best day of my life… the beginning of my life. My plans were real. My desires were real. No force in nature could’ve kept me from them.
The date was Monday, December 27, 2179. The day I died.
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counting the three days before I would board my train and begin my journey, the five days to January first: the day I knew would be the best day of my life… the beginning of my life. My plans were real. My desires were real. No force in nature could’ve kept me from them.
The date was Monday, December 27, 2179. The day I died.
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Caffeine
A Novel by Ryan Grabow
EGrabow Media, October 2009
Copyright © 2009 by Ryan Grabow. Some rights reserved.
This work may be printed and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States license.
The full license may be viewed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/legalcode
These text-only files (one for each chapter) are available at egrabow.com/caffeine. Please refer to the readme.txt file that came with them for credits and copyright information.
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Chapter Two
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We stand in awe of the parade.
Where once the connections between us were few and distant, technology from rugged roads to smoothly orbiting satellites had allowed a new culture to flourish, one that was driven by the speed and essence of communication. In short centuries, the links became faster, more reliable, and more indwelled within us: moving from firsthand
The date was Monday, December 27, 2179. The day I died.
////////Chapter One: Limits//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
counting the three days before I would board my train and begin my journey, the five days to January first: the day I knew would be the best day of my life… the beginning of my life. My plans were real. My desires were real. No force in nature could’ve kept me from them.
The date was Monday, December 27, 2179. The day I died.
////////Chapter One: Limits//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Caffeine
A Novel by Ryan Grabow
EGrabow Media, October 2009
Copyright © 2009 by Ryan Grabow. Some rights reserved.
This work may be printed and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States license.
The full license may be viewed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/legalcode
These text-only files (one for each chapter) are available at egrabow.com/caffeine. Please refer to the readme.txt file that came with them for credits and copyright information.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter Two
- - - -- --- -- - - - - --- -- - - --- - -- - -- ---- --- - - --- -
We stand in awe of the parade.
Where once the connections between us were few and distant, technology from rugged roads to smoothly orbiting satellites had allowed a new culture to flourish, one that was driven by the speed and essence of communication. In short centuries, the links became faster, more reliable, and more indwelled within us: moving from firsthand