"Welcome, the last survivors," Underwood shouted, clapping his hands. "You will forgive me if I don't come down, but I'm so very busy. I might look like I'm just here talking, but there is a lot of this running behind the scenes, as it were."
"What do you think you're doing?" Tereza shouted up to him. "You're going to crash the world!" Underwood shrugged. He just smiled.
"Sometimes painful cuts must be made to improve production. Or so management said when they fired me. The real world is of no consequence if I have The City!"
Ingmar got into position.
YOU ARE READING
The City
Science Fiction"O'Donnell builds a world both enticing and unsettling...The City remains full of surprises at every turn." -JRD Skinner, "Flashpulp" Winner of The 2017 Ooorah Award for Best Cyberpunk! WELCOME TO THE CITY... The City is a place beyond the rea...