The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches by Rich Larson

The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches

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Thirty futures. One thousand words each. Zero safety protocols.

The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches is Rich Larson's lightning strike collection of flash fiction. From the depths of biolab bunkers to alien fungi forests, each story is a precision-crafted portal to tomorrow. Here, minds are downloadable, bodies are rentable, and reality itself comes with a glitch warning.

Brace yourself for thirty razor-sharp glimpses into futures where deep space comedy collides with seaside horror, and nothing is quite what your neural implants tell you it should be.

Rich Larson: Global storyteller. Genre-bending visionary. Master of the short-form punch.

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