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Episode Five

August 29, 2007

Episode Five

“Well, that was fucking unnerving,” Jack said, sitting at her table in her apartment, nursing a growing headache and a slight case of nausea.

“What happened,” Gilles asked, “are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Jack replied, having a sip of water, “I just felt what it was like to be, I don’t know, deleted, I guess. Weird. Did anything show up at your end?”

“Not really,” he said, “I caught a strange blip on the log but it didn’t get flagged or anything so you’re probably okay.”

“Cool,” Jack said, rolling her neck and working out the kinks of being essentially away from her body for a couple of hours.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/BeautifulRed-05/BeautifulRed-05.mp3]

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  1. Mr. Tweedy says

    September 7, 2007 at 5:39 am

    Just wanted to say that I’m enjoying Beautiful Red and am curious to see where it goes. I heard about you from seeing your posts in the Escape Pod forum, and I’m glad I did.

    Good writing and good reading. Keep it coming!

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