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Orionis Zeta Inc.

December 31st Year 52

December 31st Year 52

Sep 09, 2017

It was a day like any other, just like how most stories start I suppose.

I was on my way home from work, as per usual, stopping by the pharmacy to renew a couple of prescriptions. There was nothing significant, other than the pleasant weather, which I don't often see this time of year.

They always schedule the rain and snow in the 'winter time'. Be it for a sense of normalcy, or some ecological or environmental benefit, I never thought much of it to argue. Rainy days are my favorite after all, it's the cold I could do without not that we'd have any way of controlling it.

I stopped myself on the edge of the sidewalk, the crowd was getting a bit too overwhelming. And since my headphones had broken that morning, I really had nothing to distract from it. I read the papers in my hands, over and over, hoping to either calm myself or for the crowd to go down. The latter only seeming to get worse as time passed.

Just as I had gathered myself enough to keep walking a passerby turned around abruptly, their duffle bag knocking me off my feet and into the street. The first thing I noticed was my glasses on the ground, sure, I could see without them fairly well, but with my sensory issues flaring up as they were... My sudden loss of depth perception would not be kind enough to let me get back up on my feet. I quickly grab them vaguely crawling away from the smack center of the street.

There was a loud screeching sound in the distance, I had noticed it far too late however. Having placed my glasses back onto my face I turned towards the noise. 'A school bus?' I thought to myself. And while most people might think at this moment, OF COURSE Orion, admire the vehicle about to hit you like a deer in headlights; it was more or less shock than anything else.

We don't have buses here. We never had. Between the trains and trolleys or even the automated cars and things of that nature, it just wasn't reasonable for anyone to own a car let alone afford one outside the main city, for it to be a bus of all things, a school bus no less, was just jarring all on its own.

I wasn't the only one bewildered by it either, not that it mattered as my confusion soon turned into resignation.

According to my calculations, I knew I wouldn't make it out of the way in time. Suddenly, I could feel the cold ground beneath me, had I always been lying on the ground? Voices frantically buzzed around me and yet, I could not comprehend a single word. I entered a sudden panic as a burning sensation built up inside of me.

Only for a moment, just a moment, soon enough I felt nothing at all.

That’s when I realized, I was probably dead. I always knew that school would kill me.

As far as I knew, I had never been dead before, so it's not like I could decipher my current state of being but even so I couldn't help but think that.

Memory log ends here.

No further entries recorded for the date December 31st Year 52.

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"I always knew that school would kill me" is still one of my favorite lines.

But I'm a little confused by the depth perception thing? Losing your glasses shouldn't cause loss of depth perception, unless maybe one eye is much worse than the other. And how would lack of depth perception affect your ability to get up?
Maybe I'm just overthinking this.

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Back up data and commentary, of and by, designation ζ Orionis origination Earth. Special Permissions Access to System(TM) granted by Lucidan Authorities, namely designation α Virginis origination Lucid, in batch assimilation 3-0-3-0 A of human and human-like individuals to System(TM) Technologies and Lucidian bio-networking conduits.
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31 episodes

  • December 31st Year 52
    Episode 1 December 31st Year 52
  • January 1st Year 53
    Episode 2 January 1st Year 53
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 1
    Episode 3 January 7th, Year 53 Part 1
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 2
    Episode 4 January 7th, Year 53 Part 2
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 3
    Episode 5 January 7th, Year 53 Part 3
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 4
    Episode 6 January 7th, Year 53 Part 4
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 5
    Episode 7 January 7th, Year 53 Part 5
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 6
    Episode 8 January 7th, Year 53 Part 6
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 7
    Episode 9 January 7th, Year 53 Part 7
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 8
    Episode 10 January 7th, Year 53 Part 8
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 9
    Episode 11 January 7th, Year 53 Part 9
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 10
    Episode 12 January 7th, Year 53 Part 10
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 11
    Episode 13 January 7th, Year 53 Part 11
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 12
    Episode 14 January 7th, Year 53 Part 12
  • January 7th, Year 53 Part 13
    Episode 15 January 7th, Year 53 Part 13
  • January 8th, Year 53 Part 1
    Episode 16 January 8th, Year 53 Part 1
  • January 8th, Year 53 Part 2
    Episode 17 January 8th, Year 53 Part 2
  • January 8th, Year 53 Part 3
    Episode 18 January 8th, Year 53 Part 3
  • January 8th, Year 53 Part 4
    Episode 19 January 8th, Year 53 Part 4
  • January 8th, Year 53 Part 5
    Episode 20 January 8th, Year 53 Part 5
Ep. 1 December 31st Year 52

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